Algos/ML/LLMs/FP/Mgmt, Formerly: AI Healthcare VP of Eng, AI RegTech CTO (successful exit). Twitter circa 2008.https://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mfotcrptis2xPutting toys in your children’s bookstore is a potentially bad strategy. Yes you probably make more sales as a percentage of people entering the store. You don’t get to see the people who never come in because the toys will distract the kids from book buying.25 Feb 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfotcrptis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mfet3p7fxs23I have this 2018 Honda Fit. I use it to take the kids to school down the street. Everyone else showing up in their massive SUVs and us in this tiny car, I think it’s funny.21 Feb 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfet3p7fxs23https://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mer7ewvsdc2iIt's a good time to watch the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY13 Feb 2026 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mer7ewvsdc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3meokpplfn22vthis is how we used to onboard new devs in the 2000s12 Feb 2026 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3meokpplfn22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mdwfd6keec2bI bought some reduced fat sour cream to improve my diet and it’s literally some of the saddest food I’ve ever eaten. Up there with non-alcoholic beer.03 Feb 2026 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdwfd6keec2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mdrhwwdhss2tThe madman finally did it01 Feb 2026 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdrhwwdhss2thttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3md6hjeyho226There is another dimension to freedom I’m thinking about, if you are forced to work you are not free, if you don’t have to work you are free, what if your don’t have to work and would-be work is meaningless or unnecessary, it almost seems like another type of slavery, or at least a kind of trap.24 Jan 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3md6hjeyho226https://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3md5dvphbys2aAsking my wife to review my Weee order24 Jan 2026 04:11 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3md5dvphbys2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3md2cswzgbc2aHave you seen a more badass book cover?22 Jan 2026 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3md2cswzgbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mczkpdedi22wWhat if instead of a paperclip maximizer we're building a claude tokens maximizer.22 Jan 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczkpdedi22whttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mczkejcj6c2wWhat if instead of building a paperclip maximizer, we're building a Claude tokens maximizer?22 Jan 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczkejcj6c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mcyd4kgutk2nAm I the only one who thought the Anthropic constitution was kind of lame? Like way below the qualify of the other work I’ve seen come out of @anthropic.com22 Jan 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcyd4kgutk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mcxozx2in22rYou know MistralAI really missed the mark by not naming their first image input capable model “Eurovision"21 Jan 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcxozx2in22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mcxkmup6fc2wIs Claude it's last name or first name? Should I be calling it "Mr. Opus Claude"?21 Jan 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcxkmup6fc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mcfeconlx22wAre you ready for claudepocolype14 Jan 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfeconlx22whttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3mcaawavs7k2iI’ve been saying this the whole time! Could anything be so obvious?12 Jan 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcaawavs7k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3m3pudjkfgc2cAsian Pears are looking good this year, it's their season now if you want to buy some21 Oct 2025 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pudjkfgc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3m3avni4aas26I caught my daughter reading her first no pictures book today: “Daddy, it’s like you said, I can see the book inside my head!”15 Oct 2025 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3avni4aas26https://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3m2c6lawbpk2aPost: what I think good looks like with regard to model context management https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/what-about-reordering-model-context03 Oct 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2c6lawbpk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3m25cdcvvts2zThe big problem facing many 1-2 year out AI startups, just starting to get real customer traction https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-opposite-of-a-moat01 Oct 2025 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25cdcvvts2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lzrasghzrs2qNew post about the problems in apply a single AI query over some large number of records https://open.substack.com/pub/craftingteams/p/the-single-record-inference-problem?r=2myep&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false26 Sep 2025 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrasghzrs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lz5mpeca5s2gThis is the good shit right here19 Sep 2025 00:36 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz5mpeca5s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lz4ua73ne22wSemi-recent book purchases18 Sep 2025 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz4ua73ne22whttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lyzyorcy4c26I had already written most of this post before hearing on the recent 80K podcast that Neel Nanda (the head of Google Deepmind interpretability team) takes a similar approach to studying with AI, but it was certainly validating to hear it https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/my-crash-course-ai-study-buddy17 Sep 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzyorcy4c26https://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lynkfzrvus2fIt's the End of Generic Systems! https://open.substack.com/pub/craftingteams/p/the-era-of-generic-systems-is-over?r=2myep&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false12 Sep 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynkfzrvus2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lylarmmeg22hNew post about supa-fast backend prototyping with supabase https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/building-a-scrape-delta-vectorize?r=2myep&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true11 Sep 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lylarmmeg22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lmfjkpbqxk2mRead my latest post about AI coding https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/how-should-we-program-differently09 Apr 2025 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmfjkpbqxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3lm34p5o5zs2zA new post about the sea change from auto-complete to agent-assist programming, a lot of my friends are still primarily using AI for auto complete. (this is not to say the agent flow works well enough in every programming language) https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-epiphany-moment-of-ai-assisted05 Apr 2025 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm34p5o5zs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rickasaurus.bsky.social/post/3llu5uw3wac2nWrote a bit about my experiences across many different teams and AI, TLDR think about doing more python (I'm sorry FP friends). https://craftingteams.substack.com/p/programming-language-matters-much02 Apr 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:banaspyrzrh3kcj6kdwfjd52/app.bsky.feed.post/3llu5uw3wac2n