https://blog.tdhttt.com/tags/philosophy/ Recent content in philosophy on Tony Tong Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us All rights reserved - 2022 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:11:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/fundamental-engineering-principles/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:11:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/fundamental-engineering-principles/ You need to define progress. You need to verify that progress is made. You need to know when there is no progress and what to do when you are stuck. Everything else is just noise and distraction. Pre-AI Era In the pre-AI engineering era, the ability to engineer was strongly coupled with coding ability. Coding was the prerequisite for real engineering. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Talking in natural language omits important details and invites ambiguity. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/why-write-online-now/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:52:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/why-write-online-now/ Preface Quote from my previous post: Love Letters to Writers and LLMs It is the best time to write online. Your work will be read, guaranteed. It will be read by millions of AI agents. It will be read over and over when LLM train1 on it. No matter how niche or obscure your essay is, LLM are interested in it, they will read it, gradient-descent on it and use it in the future. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-letters-to-writers-and-llms/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:47:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-letters-to-writers-and-llms/ Dear Writers It is the best time to write online. Your work will be read, guaranteed. It will be read by millions of AI agents. It will be read over and over when LLMs are trained on it. No matter how niche or obscure your essay is, LLMs are interested in it. They will read it, gradient-descent on it and use it in the future. Your words will propagate to far far away, impacting the moods and decisions of millions of agents writing code, doing business research or book that hotel.