Eric Bailey

I have complicated feelings about LLMs. I mean, a lot of people I know do. But this is also my blog, so I get to pontificate on those feelings and people… willingly read about them? When it comes to vibe coding, I have to separate my personal thoughts and feelings from my professional. It’s not fun. Emotionally, I feel like someone is holding a gun to the back of my head, and that gun is somehow hooked up to three trillion off-brand diesel engines firing on all cylinders. Intellectually, I know…

I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just does its thing. It: Modifies elements of the initial design, Evaluates how well the design would perform according to a set of requirements, Adds or discards the changes accordingly, then Repeats until a success…