Sometimes things don’t go as they’re supposed to. Sometimes you’re stuck. You feel the forces of nature fight you. You question whether you should carry on or give up. Give in to the silent scream that it isn’t going to work. But you carry on nonetheless. Partly because there are small discoveries that feel like progress. Not so much steps forward, but steps sideways, alluding to the possibility of a step forward. And partly because you have to. You are assigned to the task. You have committed to finishing the task within the two week sprint. You will write the tests, proving you have hardened the cashing service against high latency and outages.

gaslight

manipulate (someone) using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning.

July 5th

On July 5th, I decided to try out the gemini-cli: an AI agent for your terminal. I spent a couple of hours vibe coding—prompting the gemini-cli to write code for me—when I decided it was time to wrap up and head to bed. Then it struck me: will Gemini remember our conversation the next time I continue? I decided to ask it:

Hello World!