Software developer in Austin and erstwhile electronic musician
Author of the Ruby gems pg_search and with_model.
VP Software Engineering at GridStrong.
Formerly: Olin College ('06, Partner), Spiceworks, Pivotal Labs, Stronghold Investment Management
| website | https://nertzy.com |
| micro.blog | https://blog.nertzy.com |
| rubygems | https://rubygems.org/profiles/nertzy |
| github | https://github.com/nertzy |
I’ve been doing a lot more AI Agent coding lately. My pair programming experience comes in quite handy, especially around proactively monitoring what the agent is doing and knowing when to step in and retake control.
But another thing that I appreciate is the ability to flip the usual roles and have the AI Agent “navigate” what we are doing, while I actually perform the tasks. If I’m typing/copying/pasting the code, shell ... https://blog.nertzy.com/2026/02/14/ive-been-doing-a-lot.html
Scripting News: The new blog discourse system, post 0:
"The first thing to know is that all comments are blog posts. You write the comment on a blog that you own. And maybe that will be the only way anyone other than you will ever see it. But you don't have to "go" to the blog to write the comment. You stay right where you are.
A comment is not in any way guaranteed space on the other person's blog. Thus the spam ... https://blog.nertzy.com/2025/11/25/scripting-news-the-new-blog.html
There are the die-hard racists that are unreachable. Then there are ignorant racists that have the capacity for change, who can realize they've made a terrible error and want to transform themselves into better people. These are often individuals introduced to hatred at a younger, more impressionable age, when it
