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someone told their agent to book them a cheap flight and underspecified the reward function

bought the Nvidia dip let me just check on it to see how its going

Happy to say that I've joined @usehercules as Head of Content Engineering. I love what @BrendanFalk and @gurgrant and the rest of the sweet team here are creating. The future of business software is very clearly a marriage of strong foundations and complete customizability.

When I decided to go into tech journalism I didn't have a degree, I didn't have a background in writing and I had no connections to the tech world at all.

What I did have was the Internet -- the great democratizer that let my words sit on the same network as the great writers I admired. I knew I could write, but I also knew no one would hire me without evidence, so I just started my own site. I wrote over a dozen articles a day for two years until what I was producing was finally readable. Then I got a job doing it and was able to work with and learn from incredible coworkers, mentors and subjects. at @thenextweb and @TechCrunch where I was writing about and talking to some of the best product people on the planet.

Even though I've founded several small businesses over the years I grew to admire the people who had stepped off the ledge to try to build something genuinely new that could affect hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

I wanted to build. But I knew I faced the same problem - I was 'the content guy' and I didn't know how to code. But I also knew I came to it at the right time to have the same advantage as I had 15 years ago.

It turns out that the skill sets that make you good at journalism like clear articulation, semantic precision, a systems-oriented mind, and above all, a genuine curiosity, also work well for coding agents.

So I spent the last few years retooling myself. I now have code in production, tools in use and am filling PRs as we speak and I couldn't be happier.

I'm hooked on the vision of Hercules - of bringing that same enabling power to business owners who know their world better than any SaaS provider or consultant, if they could only make it real. Let's go!

Just grabbing my first cup of coffee let me check the markets probably another chill day

Addicted to jackets, live in a region with an average yearly temp of almost 70°F.