Ok, this post is now inception. I'm a programmer talking about a programming podcaster that is talking about a programming podcaster. We have achieved peak Internet. Except I'm not going to talk about anything they said.

The world is pretty crazy, but I'm honestly stoked about where computing is. I'm finding myself digging into nooks and crannies a lot more than I was 5 years ago. There's a million old ideas, 'The world is what you make it'. I think that idea applies today more than ever.

The fundamentals still apply. Why are we doing this? What good does it do?

The software we build should be applied to improve the lives of humans. Wasn't that the whole idea of the movie Tron?

I spent the better part of my day working on getting a local Qwen model doing a RAG with local Qwen3-Embedding-4B stored in ChromaDB. I promise all of those words actually mean something.

Getting to 80% was easy. And once again, here we are, at the legendary 20%. Now I am, as my friend says, "Begging a computer to solve the problem." And nothing has really changed. You have to put on your big boy boots, understand WTF is going on, and fix the shit yourself.