You've exactly nailed it! I write the code in my head long before it appears on the page. It's like poetry. But I recognise that not everything needs to be perfect all the time. It's a hard thing to let go of - especially for a scientist where the 'how' is as sacred as the 'why' and 'what'.
tbh good point. I was thinking the engineer is the 'just get it done' but thats not right cause i know some scientists who write some *horrific* code 😂
Do you have a post where you explain what SOOT is? I see it in a lot of your posts ("at SOOT we did this.." "Founding SOOT was like..." etc.) but I don't really know what's being talked about.
I haven't ever explicitly written about it, in part because the company still exists and I don't want to influence its growth in any significant way now that I'm no longer leading the company. We built a consumer vector database for artists and designers and creatives. Solved some pretty nasty problems like "how can you do ml serving before that was really a thing" and "how can you render tens of thousands of images on a phone in less than a second" and so on. I'm sure there's some articles out there about the company, eg
I am amused that the Substack algo brought this post to my feed, with the immediate result that I had to Google “what is a coding agent?”
The ways of the algorithm are mysterious and complex
This works for agents in other areas than just software development.
Explains quite a lot.
You've exactly nailed it! I write the code in my head long before it appears on the page. It's like poetry. But I recognise that not everything needs to be perfect all the time. It's a hard thing to let go of - especially for a scientist where the 'how' is as sacred as the 'why' and 'what'.
engineer vs scientists isn't a perfect dichotomy here, but its pretty close to what im seeing on the ground
Which is which? (I'm a scientist and an engineer so I'm constantly suffering an identity crisis...)
tbh good point. I was thinking the engineer is the 'just get it done' but thats not right cause i know some scientists who write some *horrific* code 😂
My PhD supervisor for example 😅
Do you have a post where you explain what SOOT is? I see it in a lot of your posts ("at SOOT we did this.." "Founding SOOT was like..." etc.) but I don't really know what's being talked about.
soot.com
I haven't ever explicitly written about it, in part because the company still exists and I don't want to influence its growth in any significant way now that I'm no longer leading the company. We built a consumer vector database for artists and designers and creatives. Solved some pretty nasty problems like "how can you do ml serving before that was really a thing" and "how can you render tens of thousands of images on a phone in less than a second" and so on. I'm sure there's some articles out there about the company, eg
https://fortune.com/2024/06/20/exclusive-soot-raises-7-2-million-in-seed-round-led-by-upfront-ventures/