You might know I left my previous job to set out on my own. I started "scapegoat consulting LLC", motto "we take the blame", although I just point at the AI and say "claude did it".
Before you all click away, I've always tried to be nuanced about #llms, right since copilot alpha. My posts from 2023 have help up pretty well: https://the.scapegoat.dev/llms-will-fundamentally-change-software-engineering/ - https://the.scapegoat.dev/llms-a-paradigm-shift-for-the-pragmatic-programmer/
I offer:
**programming with AI workshops**
hands on instructions, at a team level: how does a team building software benefit most from LLMs, tailored to your exact needs, since the technology is so fluid. No tools, no cargo cult. I think where to use LLMs should come from understanding team communication first. Who cares if you can barf out millions of tokens, when maybe the most valuable use is just formatting bug reports properly?
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwItokY087U and https://github.com/go-go-golems/go-go-workshop/
_advanced_ programming techniques you will not usually find anywhere else (not just ASTs and DSLs 🤣 )
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GSShoBLZF0
_fundamentals_: focusing on the cultural and semiotic aspects of the technology. Software is language humans created to better communicate about how we work with machines, and now we "taught" machines to talk to themselves, but using our words.
Recent article: https://the.scapegoat.dev/tool-use-and-notation-as-generalization-shaping/
**strategic AI consulting** (cringe...)
high level "what is engineering in a world of LLMs", which some of you know I think a lot about and am a bit scaringly on point usually. My focus has always been on human collaboration and output value and quality, not productivity.
I've always been in the trenches with logistics, embedded, supply chain, manufacturing and so have a pretty wide "systems thinking" approach to solving problems with #LLMs that is quite different from many of the platitudes you'll always hear.
**project work**
My heart is in building high quality software, and that's always been my guiding star, before and after LLMs. I like building reliable solutions that take a real beating in the field. Embedded, full stack, I've been doing this 27 years professionally, you name it I've probably seen it.
Current opensource projects: https://github.com/go-go-golems/
Feel free to dm!
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