Alex Void

Founding Design Engineer • Indie Builder • Hard SF Author

Crafting minimal, monochrome experience.
Building apps that matter.
Writing futures worth exploring.

[Alex Void @voidengi]

I called it “cognitive fat”: useful reserves that nonetheless get in the way of fast thinking. I did want to store up fat, just not inside myself and preferably not as triglycerides. So…

My Essay about Digital Garden:

https://t.co/BNt9brIJqF

[Alex Void @voidengi]

The year was 2019. Nobody yet knew what the next couple of years had in store, but people were already side-eyeing 5G towers, the rise of TikTok, and a still-closed-source GPT-2 that couldn’t even manage a limerick.

[Alex Void @voidengi]

Luckily the people around me were kind and merciful, and simply branded me a “cognitive strategist,” which translated straight from the language of empaths as “dumb.”

[Alex Void @voidengi]

https://t.co/wmcWnDMz9X

[Alex Void @voidengi]

While the LLM providers try to cosplay the Harkonnens and bake a “tokens must flow” principle into the economy, I’ve found a few genuinely worthwhile ways to use an LLM in my life.

[Alex Void @voidengi]

Solid: he has a chat with each person on the team, and that day John messages him: I changed the product’s price. No call was held at all.