Phalanx duel game development | Ramblin' & Amblin' | Nov 3, 2026
Ramblin' & Amblin' Field Notes with Mike Hall (Staff Software Engineer)
Recorded on the move: engineering observations, systems architecture, and software craftsmanship reflections.
• Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNtb969T2-l0
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Spoken Overview:
"Anybody who thinks that working with AI is... ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea..."
Recorded: November 3, 2026
The Interviewer
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
Mike Hall
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Anybody who thinks that working with AI is... ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...you can see that working with AI is a very good idea of
how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI is a very good idea
of how to use AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI. ...and you can see that working with AI.
Mike Hall
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...and I had this game that I had created. ...on a camp out once. ...and I was very proud of it. ...and I had taken a couple cracks.
Mike Hall
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...and turning it into a video game. ...called Phalanx Duel. ...but just time. ...and enough stuff changing.
Mike Hall
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...I was able to use the AI tools to build the game. ...even with TypeScript. ...rich GUI. ...back-end server.
Mike Hall
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...ranked mode. ...bots. Monte Carlo simulators. ...ilo.
Mike Hall
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...Glico. ...all kinds of stuff. ...technically you can sign up for a membership. ...and you can have custom profiles.
Mike Hall
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...and have a... ...oh you can re-watch old games. ...there's a spectator mode. ...which was something I put in from the beginning.
Mike Hall
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...because I was thinking about observers. ...and maybe even streaming. ...it would be fun to be able to say okay this game is
playing. ...and it's got this read-only mode.
Mike Hall
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...and then trying to use the tools again to also secure
the surface. ...and that's real. ...it's out in production. ...when I...
Mike Hall
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...when I get some funds I'm going to deploy the latest
version. ...I'm a couple versions behind in production. ...because... ...money...
Mike Hall
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...what's sitting in GitHub is not what's in production. ...I built... ...another knowledge base for clients. ...I'm not going into that.
Mike Hall
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...but... ...really getting to see what you can do when you just... ...set up a read-only token into your GitHub. ...and...
Mike Hall
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...build a local data lake. ...DuckDB and SQLite are your friends. ...um... ...the...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...the recovery of... ...of... ...well I mean...
Mike Hall
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...my gosh... ...my Z-Dots... ...A-Dots... ...V-Dots...
Mike Hall
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...these are all... ...um... ...my shell configurations... ...my Z-Shell...
Mike Hall
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...and my... ...NeoVim... ...I used... ...I forget...
Mike Hall
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...I wanted to say anti-gravity... ...but... ...I cycled through anti-gravity... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...slash... ...gemini... ...um... ...codex...
Mike Hall
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...clawed... ...code... ...and... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...the Docker... ...Docker had a tool... ...because I was using that... ...because I thought it might be better...
Mike Hall
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...at... ...building Docker configurations... ...mixed bag... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...ultimately... ...abandoning Docker altogether... ...I mean not Docker... ...but...
Mike Hall
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...Docker Desktop... ...because it was just... ...again... ...I was working...
Mike Hall
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...I'd gone from an... ...Intel... ...i7... ...16...
Mike Hall
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...gigabyte... ...um... ...with... ...512 gig...
Mike Hall
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...primary storage... ...uh... ...I think it was... ...2018...
Mike Hall
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...2019... ...laptop... ...to... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...that's not my daughters... ...um... ...my youngest daughters... ...and...
Mike Hall
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...I bought a... ...MacBook Air... ...the very cheapest one... ...I could find...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...16... ...so... ...MacBook Air...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...M4... ...with no... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...no... ...no... ...no extra... ...ornamentation...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...16 gigabyte... ...and... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...256 giga hard drive... ...uh... ...uh... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...primary storage... ...which is just... ...constantly... ...a battle...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...for... ...space... ...if I can keep...
Mike Hall
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...50 gigabytes... ...of space... ...uh... ...free...
Mike Hall
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...that's... ...I'm doing... ...I'm running... ...really lean...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...integrating... ...into... ...a...
Mike Hall
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...unified shell... ...platform... ...um... ...with local...
Mike Hall
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...LLM capabilities... ...because... ...as limited as the machine was... ...I...
Mike Hall
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...I was trying to... ...save on tokens... ...and inference... ...by bringing as much of it...
Mike Hall
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...on to my local machine... ...as possible... ...um... ...there was a brief period...
Mike Hall
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...where I used my son's... ...gaming machine... ...for helping with... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...processing of... ...uh... ...of... ...transcriptions...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...so even using AI tools... ...to help that... ...but I knew how to set up...
Mike Hall
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...a... ...a... ...Sage... ...connection...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...fortunately... ...my son switched from Windows... ...to...
Mike Hall
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...Lenux... ...on his own accord... ...which I was super proud of... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...which has only made things easier... ...but I... ...I don't run much on his machine... ...it's his machine...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...uh... ...he was just gracious enough... ...to let dad use his machine...
Mike Hall
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...during the day... ...when he was at school... ...um... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...uh... ...the... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...focusing on it... ...I was always working out... ...out from there... ...I tried using Pi...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...I even built a Z Pi... ...which was a wrapper... ...to...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...integrate better with my... ...um... ...Z Dots platform...
Mike Hall
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...as you can see... ...there's a... ...uh... ...A to Z...
Mike Hall
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...kind of metaphor there... ...A is all... ...or... ...alpha...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...it's my... ...HOME DIR dots... ...and it's everything that isn't covered by...
Mike Hall
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...my Z shell configuration... ...um... ...so trying to keep... ...some...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...boundaries there... ...um... ...Z shell is...
Mike Hall
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...is my interactive shell... ...whereas... ...A Dots holds... ...my home directory...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...coordinates and... ...I always had to tell the tool to... ...to...
Mike Hall
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...keep... ...uh... ...configuration... ...in A Dots...
Mike Hall
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...keep... ...uh... ...shell configuration... ...in...
Mike Hall
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...in Z Dots... ...with... ...uh... ...my Neo Vim config...
Mike Hall
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...my Neo Vim config... ...dates back to... ...Mac Vim... ...Vim...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...um... ...when I switched over to... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...Mac based... ...work... ...Linux based work... ...full time...
Mike Hall
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...so it's got a long history... ...um... ...um... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...um... ...most of my scripting was done in Vim script... ...I...
Mike Hall
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...was... ...pretty out of date... ...so I used the tools to... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...convert over to Lua... ...entirely... ...and... ...and just...
Mike Hall
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...I had bought a Lua book... ...and Lua 5-1... ...I was... ...pretty committed to...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...converting... ...but again... ...it's just...
Mike Hall
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...you can only do so many things all at once... ...how many languages... ...can you learn at one time... ...and be...
Mike Hall
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...able to know... ...and it's not just... ...the languages... ...it's...
Mike Hall
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...the frameworks... ...the internals... ...and that... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...you know... ...like when you're... ...in Vim script... ...there's...
Mike Hall
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...native... ...syntax... ...for... ...commands...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...interacting with... ...uh... ...the system...
Mike Hall
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...whereas with... ...Lua... ...hmm... ...there's places where he had like...
Mike Hall
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...passed Vim script in... ...and it wasn't a... ...a very clean... ...conversion...
Mike Hall
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...and not... ...not knocking... ...I'm just saying it was... ...where it was...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...but the... ...feedback cycle... ...with the AI tools...
Mike Hall
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...was tremendously... ...quicker... ...and I could experiment... ...I could say...
Mike Hall
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...I like this plug-in... ...I don't like that plug-in... ...I want to make this plug-in work like that plug-in... ...I want to map my...
Mike Hall
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...settings... ...like... ...people can say... ...oh...
Mike Hall
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...you're not a real Vim user... ...yeah... ...whatever... ...no choose Kotsman...
Mike Hall
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...if you use a Tree Explorer... ...well then why do they exist? ...you know like... ...I've...
Mike Hall
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...I've always used one... ...I like to have a visual representation of my directory
... ...as I'm working... ...call me crazy...
Mike Hall
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...I mean... ...I also love Rails... ...because it's conventional configurations... ...so being able to see the conventions is nice...
Mike Hall
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...so... ...because it's right embedded in the hierarchy of the tree
... ...um... ...but...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...AI tools help with that... ...tremendously... ...um...
Mike Hall
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...but... ...it was never easy... ...I had to know what I wanted... ...I had to know...
Mike Hall
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...what to tell them what to do... ...and... ...the thing that... ...I think...
Mike Hall
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...some people are still... ...holding on to... ...in this whole product... ...engineering thing...
Mike Hall
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...is that... ...if somebody can't tell... ...a trained person... ...who's an expert in the domain...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...and with the tools... ...what they want them to do... ...what...
Mike Hall
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...what are they gonna do with... ...with an AI... ...it can... ...it can make inferences...
Mike Hall
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...but... ...if you... ...if you don't understand... ...what you're...
Mike Hall
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...you're... ...you're telling it to do... ...you're just saying... ...I want this outcome...
Mike Hall
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...God knows what it's gonna do... ...between... ...intent... ...and implementation...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...uh... ...it's real easy... ...to have a mirage of competence...
Mike Hall
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...and it's dangerous... ...it's not... ...again... ...it's not about being stupid...
Mike Hall
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...it's... ...I don't blame them for... ...but... ...uh...
Mike Hall
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...you know... ...power... ...responsibility... ...blah...
Mike Hall
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...blah... ...blah... ...anyway... ...it's not easy...
Mike Hall
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...these tools... ...give you new capabilities... ...but we're gonna hit a plateau... ...like...
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...and that's where I'm at... ...right now... ...is... ...I've got this media pipeline...
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...I've extracted it out... ...from my... ...uh... ...uh...
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...and also... ...everything has got it... ...launch D... ...everything gets launched D...
Mike Hall
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...everything gets a control plane... ...um... ...the ZDOTS has its own control plane... ...for managing its own services...
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...everything's got open telemetry... ...PHI... ...uh... ...filtering...
Mike Hall
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...because of an engagement I had... ...I... ...I spent a lot of time... ...leading up to the engagement...
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...building... ...some kind of guards... ...verifiable guards... ...against...
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...linking... ...uh... ...uh... ...information into...
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...uh... ...an AI prompt... ...and... ...it's...
Mike Hall
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...it's... ...it's... ...it's... ...it's guardrails...
Mike Hall
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...and you can still hit a guardrail... ...and flip over it... ...it's a life jacket... ...but you can still...
Mike Hall
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...take on water... ...you know... ...it's not perfect... ...but it...
Mike Hall
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...it's an airbag... ...and a seat... ...and a seatbelt... ...you know...
Mike Hall
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...um... ...and... ...I'm gonna hit a plateau... ...where...
Mike Hall
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...I've already felt it myself... ...where it's like... ...okay, now what do I do... ...now what do I do...
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...and... ...how do I go past... ...where I'm at now... ...and what is it gonna take...
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...to get novelty... ...um... ...to be created again... ...we had a...
Mike Hall
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...period I believe... ...leading up to the AI revolution... ...where I would call it... ...novelty overload...
Mike Hall
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...uh... ...too many tools... ...coming at... ...the group all at once...
Mike Hall
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...and then the belief... ...that we could just replace... ...everybody... ...um...
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...with people that know the tools... ...um... ...was very ignorant of the fact... ...that the people...
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...knew what the tools did... ...and... ...uh... ...that the new languages...
Mike Hall
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...and tooling... ...offered... ...essentially nothing... ...uh...
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...except complexity... ...and... ...then the people who are... ...supposedly experts in those tools...
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...are trying to implement... ...all the complexity... ...all at once... ...all the new tools...
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...while simultaneously... ...alienating... ...everybody that... ...uh...
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...of how the system works... ...and... ...when you're in finance... ...and you're dealing with...
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...uh... ...a book... ...system that... ...uh...
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...goes back... ...decades... ...you can... ...you can talk all you want...
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...about replacing the existing system... ...but... ...um... ...dividends don't get paid on...
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...on technology... ...they get paid on implementation... ...and they get paid on... ...stability...
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...and reliability... ...and... ...just doing the job... ...and there's so much...
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...love... ...of... ...of the tools... ...that it's...
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...made people... ...lose sight of what we're trying to do... ...but we're gonna hit a plateau... ...we're gonna hit a plateau...
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...and... ...all these bets... ...you know... ...some are gonna...
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...some are gonna be real... ...I mean... ...the... ...what I've been able to build...
Mike Hall
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...and... ...maybe I can... ...get over my... ...feelings about...
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...amil day... ...alt... ...and... ...musk...
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...and just... ...except that's the future now... ...and... ...uh...
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...and... ...it doesn't matter whether... ...it's good, bad, or different... ...they're gonna win...
Mike Hall
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...because... ...that's what... ...the market wants... ...I don't know...
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...alright... ...thanks, bye...