Mmojo Articles
#MeWriting Welcome to my Mmojo Articles. I used to post mostly on LinkedIn. For 2026, I’m posting here and linking from LinkedIn. You can comment on LinkedIn if you like. I’ll link to the reposts in posts here.
-Brad
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Engineered Software vs. Flat-Pack Code
Woodworking vs. flat-pack furniture might be the perfect analogue metaphor for software engineering and vibe coding. Can’t we all just get along?
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Inference @ Home
Americans will soon face a choice: Get off the electric grid or do their inference at home. Let me define and explain.
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Knowing What AI is Good For is a Super Power
The AI Super Power works like this: 1. You know what tasks generative AI is actually good at. 2. You have the chill to not endorse tasks it’s not good at.
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Efficiency is One Side of the Coin
Efficiency is important to us for content production. But production is only one side of the information lifecycle coin. Effectiveness is the other side.
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On the Passing of Scott Adams
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams passed away this morning at the age of 68. Reading the New York Post obituary by his biographer, Joel Pollak, I learned something important about “AI”.
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Everything I Needed to Know About LLMs…
…I Learned in High School Geometry. People of a certain age learned the most important skill for understanding how large language models (LLMs) actually work back in high school.
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It’s Going to Snow!
I moved to Minden, NV in mid-September. Minden is east of Lake Tahoe and down the hill at an elevation of about 5000 feet. I didn’t plan this, but circumstances sent me here and different circumstances kept me here.
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2026: Fear of Messing Up (Video)
In 2026, it will be a good plan to check if your AI idea is messed up. Because in 2023-2025, 95% of them turned out to be. The reason projects fail is because the use of generative algorithms is not consistent with what those algorithms do.
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Slop: Mis-valuing the Temporary
#MeWriting One of my favorite YouTube channels is StudPack. It’s an ongoing story of a father, his son, and his son-in-law building a dream house for his son, and doing interesting side projects along the way. In recent Christmas holiday videos, they’ve been working to fix big problems in a friend’s home. The friend’s family