Gaiwan: September Recap

We had a busy month at Gaiwan! Here are some things that happened in September. Blog Updates First, Arne released a blog post on his stance on AI which sums up how we

Stop Debugging the Code, Start Debugging the Company

Tell me if you've heard this story before. A company is building a software product. The initial prototypes are promising. They quickly add new features and start attracting customers. Things look

A Conjure Piglet Client

by Laurence Chen “Laurence, are you interested in Piglet? Do you want to help develop Piglet?” Arne asked me. Piglet is the new language he recently released, of course, another Lisp. “Sure, where

The Hidden Lessons in a re-frame App

by Laurence Chen I took over a web application whose frontend was built with re-frame, and not long after I started working on it, I felt a bit of discomfort. So, I decided

On Cognitive Alignment

by Laurence Chen There was once a time when a client asked me to add a rate limit to an HTTP API. I quickly identified three similar options, all of which could apply