https://caideiseach.com A smorgasbord of thoughts, tinkering and translations. en-gb Sun, 24 May 2026 22:51:00 GMT https://caideiseach.com/blog/driodar-is-sriodar https://caideiseach.com/blog/driodar-is-sriodar Is é sríodar an rud a tharlaíonn nuair a oibríonn daoine agus meaisíní le chéile le cúram is grá Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:41:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/cumhacht-na-cuimhne https://caideiseach.com/blog/cumhacht-na-cuimhne Memory isn't about storing facts; it's what builds the judgment AI can't replicate. The people who thrive won't outsource the most; they'll train the hardest. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:15:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/mines-and-rabbit-holes-3 https://caideiseach.com/blog/mines-and-rabbit-holes-3 Six weeks of reading distilled: Jevons paradox and AI labour, the K-shaped split, context engineering replacing prompts, predictionism as the successor to postmodernism, and why a visit to Pearse's Scoil Éanna made me think about paideia. 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Focail na mbliana. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/reimse-scribhneoireacht-na-naisti https://caideiseach.com/blog/reimse-scribhneoireacht-na-naisti An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Shape of the Essay Field' Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/mines-and-rabbit-holes https://caideiseach.com/blog/mines-and-rabbit-holes #1? Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/luxury-as-the-anti-algorithm https://caideiseach.com/blog/luxury-as-the-anti-algorithm Harnessing Human Imperfection and Bold Vision in an AI-Driven World Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:22:31 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-soon-to-be-obsolete-skill-of-prompt-engineering https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-soon-to-be-obsolete-skill-of-prompt-engineering 300k -> 0k Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:45:48 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/train-the-model-train-the-team https://caideiseach.com/blog/train-the-model-train-the-team Why Documentation is the New Superpower Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:44:59 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-blinking-cursor https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-blinking-cursor Friend or Foe? Neither: Frenemy. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 06:00:23 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/chatgpt-is-the-new-ms-dos https://caideiseach.com/blog/chatgpt-is-the-new-ms-dos We Haven’t had the Windows 95 Moment Yet Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:01:15 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-cognitive-collapse https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-cognitive-collapse How the Memory Paradox and AI Slide Are Undermining Human Intelligence Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:11:54 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/good-taste-isnt-autocorrect https://caideiseach.com/blog/good-taste-isnt-autocorrect Fri, 30 May 2025 10:15:25 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-great-cognitive-outsourcing https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-great-cognitive-outsourcing The New Terrain of Critical Thinking Mon, 26 May 2025 08:30:28 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/silicon-in-irish-part-2 https://caideiseach.com/blog/silicon-in-irish-part-2 Un-reason-LLM-bly good? Thu, 22 May 2025 08:30:31 GMT Tinkering https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-pyramid-is-dead-long-live-the-diamond https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-pyramid-is-dead-long-live-the-diamond The Traditional Org Chart is Being Toppled by AI Mon, 19 May 2025 08:30:23 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/curiosity-and-the-compression-imperative https://caideiseach.com/blog/curiosity-and-the-compression-imperative Why We Hunt for Better Metaphors Tue, 13 May 2025 13:02:58 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/silicon-in-irish-part-1 https://caideiseach.com/blog/silicon-in-irish-part-1 AI's Unexpected Fluency in Irish Tue, 06 May 2025 13:02:46 GMT Tinkering https://caideiseach.com/blog/leaky-abstractions-redux https://caideiseach.com/blog/leaky-abstractions-redux Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps You Dry—Until It Doesn't Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:19:21 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/stairs-slides-and-ladders https://caideiseach.com/blog/stairs-slides-and-ladders Navigating the AI Training Gap Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:02:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/re-eval-your-life https://caideiseach.com/blog/re-eval-your-life A Holiday Guide to Better Questions Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:51:53 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-ode-to-code https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-ode-to-code programming languages >> natural languages Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:04:44 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/reducing-the-activation-energy-for-greatness https://caideiseach.com/blog/reducing-the-activation-energy-for-greatness Making Greatness Default Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:05:55 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-kaleidoscope-hypothesis-for-education https://caideiseach.com/blog/the-kaleidoscope-hypothesis-for-education Abstracting and synthesising our way in and out of novel problems Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:58:59 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/thinking-more-faster https://caideiseach.com/blog/thinking-more-faster Approaching the Speed of Thought for Content Creation Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:11:24 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/extension-auth-with-cookies https://caideiseach.com/blog/extension-auth-with-cookies Discover why managing user onboarding, account management, and subscriptions from a separate website can enhance the security and user experience of your browser extension. Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Tinkering https://caideiseach.com/blog/humans-only-ai-need-not-apply https://caideiseach.com/blog/humans-only-ai-need-not-apply AI aids development; but, without the human touch, it will never be accessible to all. Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/ai-shrunk-the-language-divide https://caideiseach.com/blog/ai-shrunk-the-language-divide AI can be the great variance amplifier for minority languages Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/language-learning-like-tiktok https://caideiseach.com/blog/language-learning-like-tiktok You can escape the attention-mining rush and learn faster simply by reading what you like. Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/in-need-of-assistants https://caideiseach.com/blog/in-need-of-assistants DevDay for OpenAI brings AI agents to the masses Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/functional-filtering-with-chatgpt https://caideiseach.com/blog/functional-filtering-with-chatgpt LLMs still going brrr thanks to timesaving with JSON outputs Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-ga-a-bheith-ag-leamh https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-ga-a-bheith-ag-leamh An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Need to Read' Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/na-rudai-is-mian-leat-mian-a-bheith-ionat-a-dheanamh https://caideiseach.com/blog/na-rudai-is-mian-leat-mian-a-bheith-ionat-a-dheanamh An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'What You (Want To)* Want' Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/what-is-the-diglot-weave-method https://caideiseach.com/blog/what-is-the-diglot-weave-method Diglot Weaving involves weaving or mixing two languages together. In the case of language learning, it is where sentences written in the learner’s native language have words from the language they want to learn mixed in. Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/translating-into-learnings https://caideiseach.com/blog/translating-into-learnings Translation forces you to think about meaning in a way other meditatative practices on a text don't. Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/3-reasons-to-code-at-a-startup https://caideiseach.com/blog/3-reasons-to-code-at-a-startup A reflection on a year at Weeve (formally Diglot) Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/cuis-na-meine https://caideiseach.com/blog/cuis-na-meine A few thoughts on FOMO and the importance of asking yourself the right questions. Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/setting-up-expo-client-on-macos-catalina https://caideiseach.com/blog/setting-up-expo-client-on-macos-catalina A guide to setting up the Expo Client on MacOS Catalina. Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Tinkering https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-coroinvireas-is-an-chreidiunacht https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-coroinvireas-is-an-chreidiunacht An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Coronavirus and Credibility' Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/uisce https://caideiseach.com/blog/uisce Adaptability is not just the key to surive, but the key to thrive. Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-chead-rud-ar-mo-liosta-rudai-ata-le-deanamh https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-chead-rud-ar-mo-liosta-rudai-ata-le-deanamh An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Top Of My Todo List' Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/gonta https://caideiseach.com/blog/gonta An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Writing, Briefly' Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-tastail-oileain https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-tastail-oileain An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Island Test' Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-riosca-fionnachtana https://caideiseach.com/blog/an-riosca-fionnachtana An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Risk of Discovery' Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/dean-aithris-is-ansa-leat https://caideiseach.com/blog/dean-aithris-is-ansa-leat An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Copy What You Like' Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/fadhbanna-nosula https://caideiseach.com/blog/fadhbanna-nosula An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Fashionable Problems' Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/obair-nach-bhfuil-cuma-oibre-uirthi https://caideiseach.com/blog/obair-nach-bhfuil-cuma-oibre-uirthi An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'What Doesn’t Seem Like Work?' Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations https://caideiseach.com/blog/dea-is-droch-moilleadoir https://caideiseach.com/blog/dea-is-droch-moilleadoir An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Good and Bad Procrastination' Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT Translations