Software Engineering

2025-07-16

Kiro is a new AI vibe coding IDE with a focus on writing specs, turning that into a design, and then turning that into tasks. You’re basically a product manager now, managing a very enthusiastic, very weird software engineer. That’s super exciting!

2025-03-26

Python (Programming Language)

2024-09-06

Exploring the Polars Dataframe Library

Polars is a relatively new data frame library that I don’t yet have experience, but I do want to use it for storing data related to this library, so I’m recording my experiments here.

Analysis quality, software engineering, and proprietary systems

Analysis quality

One of the great ironies of the analytics industry is its utter inability to measure itself. Despite “defining key metrics” for ambiguous business processes being a key responsibility in nearly every analytics role, we enthusiastically reject doing it for ourselves. - Benn Stancil

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on what constitutes a good analysis, but I’ve found there’s a common thread coalescing around the idea that in a world without counterfactuals and rife with complex (emergent) systems fast decisions are good decisions.