sean goedecke

January 26, 2025 │ RL-based reasoning instead of SFT on millions of traces

January 26, 2025 │ If you're senior or above, you're morally obliged to play the game

January 25, 2025 │ How I deal with being way more productive on some days than others

January 24, 2025 │ It's not incompetence or process, it's thousands of feature interactions

January 19, 2025 │ Some people will absorb as much work as you're willing to give them

January 18, 2025 │ To think clearly, think in slow motion

January 16, 2025 │ Always give options, even when there aren't any

January 14, 2025 │ Tech companies care about projects, not tickets

January 10, 2025 │ What I think about when I write blog posts

January 10, 2025 │ My experience working across timezones for Americans

January 9, 2025 │ Self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability

January 8, 2025 │ Cynicism and optimism in software companies

January 5, 2025 │ Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)

January 2, 2025 │ What I've learned from ten years working on projects like this

December 16, 2024 │ Why companies don't reward glue work and why you shouldn't do it all the time

December 28, 2024 │ What does it take to get promoted from senior to staff at a tech company?

December 27, 2024 │ Engineering talent is about task-capability, not speed or volume

December 22, 2024 │ Thoughts on building and maintaining trust with very senior managers

December 2, 2024 │ Four archetypes in software engineering

November 20, 2024 │ Overconfidence about the big questions in software engineering

November 9, 2024 │ What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project

October 28, 2024 │ Summarizing a whole lot of internet argument about the water usage impact of language models

June 17, 2024 │ Why people are excited about Monte Carlo tree search and language models

April 25, 2024 │ How to use modern machine learning tools to recognise animal calls

November 26, 2023 │ A devlog of my experience porting and hacking llama2.c

November 26, 2023 │ A deep-dive into the specifics of LLMs, via llama2.c

November 26, 2023 │ How ReAct-pattern agents work and how to build them yourself

December 25, 2020 │ Practical advice on writing a successful coding challenge

January 1, 2021 │ Practical advice on succeeding at a design interview

April 20, 2021 │ As simple an explanation of blockchain as possible

July 29, 2020 │ Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas

July 29, 2020 │ A brief explanation of how blockchains work for developers

September 6, 2021 │ A brief statement of values for recruiters or hiring managers

April 20, 2021 │ The internet is full of war stories, but almost no incidents are like that

September 3, 2021 │ One idea for testing incident troubleshooting

December 25, 2020 │ How to explain complex technical concepts by starting with why

September 11, 2020 │ Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by worry than it is by a lack of technical skill