Pylimitics

Simplicity rearranged

unmonetizable content since 1997


weekend reading

“the old is dying and the new cannot be born”

Antonio Gramsci 

We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.

Paul Feyerabend

“How do LLMs affect productivity and quality? (Much like leaded petrol. There’s some potential benefit for individual users with literally decades of expertise, provided nobody else uses LLMs. The results are catastrophic when everybody is using them.)”

Baldur Bjarnason

The tech industry is shaping up to be one of the most hated industries in our modern era.

Baldur Bjarnason



About Me

I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.

Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity. You can also find some of my minor software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly write tiny utilities in Python.

I find myself suddenly de-corporatized (their choice, not mine). To help keep the lights on, buy me a coffee!