my first client telling me i was professional and sincere, a guy at the gym who wouldn't tell me anything useful, and remembering the people who taught me everything back when i had nothing to give them
an A- that still stings for the mod i found most useful, a genting road trip with my two best friends, and the odyssey's real giant robots getting me thinking about how labels flip what we see
the more people i teach, the more sure i am that i love teaching. finished another package, spent the break back in jb with family, and kept noticing that the person teaching is always learning too
watched the big labs keep fighting over their LLMs and realised we are paying them for the privilege of training them, like paying a chef who quietly learns your favourite dish and then puts it on their own menu
A research note on curation versus collection: why a mature, well-tended toolkit rejects free additions, how selection pressure (not quality) sets the bar, and a worked case cloning a 230-agent library that added almost nothing.
wrapped special term exams and just felt weirdly, overwhelmingly lucky to be alive: a fun job, friends who get me, a family that loves each other, and the sense of levelling up again