Hi there! In this blog post, I’m diving into my experiences and thoughts on AI hating, touching upon some intriguing tech topics as well. From exploring how music-infused breathwork leads to awesome altered states of consciousness to experimenting with a swarm of AI agents to build a product in a week, I’ve got it all covered. Plus, tips on utilizing Claude Code for non-coders and engineering leadership pitfalls. Join me!
- I Am An AI Hater: I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
- Neurobiological substrates of altered states of consciousness induced by high ventilation breathwork accompanied by music: The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjective experiential states analogous to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) evoked by psychedelic substances. These states include components such as euphoria, bliss, and perceptual differences. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the profound subjective effects of high ventilation breathwork (HVB) remain largely unknown and unexplored. In this study, we investigated the neurobiological substrates of ASCs induced by HVB in experienced practitioners. We demonstrate that the intensity of ASCs evoked by HVB was proportional to cardiovascular sympathetic activation and to haemodynamic alterations in cerebral perfusion within clusters spanning the left operculum/posterior insula and right amygdala/anterior hippocampus; regions implicated in respiratory interoceptive representation and the processing of emotional memories, respectively. These observed regional cerebral effects may underlie pivotal mental experiences that mediate positive therapeutic outcomes of HVB.
- How to use Claude Code for non-engineering use cases: 🧠Claude Code without the Code: Agents for PRDs, Jira tickets, SEO analysis, creating a second brain, editing spreadsheets and more.
- Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI: How to build a CLI coding agent
- Engineering lead failure modes: …and how to avoid them.
- I Managed a Swarm of 20 AI Agents for a Week and Built a Product. Here Are the 8 Rules I Learned.: A couple weeks ago I went heads-down and experimented with a new development model. The results were unexpected: a production-ready application, ~800 commits, and 100+ PRs in a single week. The core idea was to stop coding linearly and instead manage a swarm of ~20 parallel AI agents. This required building a custom parallelization tool, […]