10/19/2025 Weekly what's up

What I’m reading

  • Good stuff on AI engineering right now: Just Talk to it. This aligns with experiences we’ve had at work (re-writing a big internal API pretty much 100% using Claude Code). The graph at the start of the article rings very true.

What I’m playing

  • Bouncing back and forth between Silksong and Hades 2. Both challenging but the contrast between just hitting your head against a wall in Silksong and the slow natural progression of Hades is neat - nice to bounce back and forth.
  • Got a 2 player game of Ark Nova in with my Dad. Hadn’t played in a couple years and was reminded how much I liked it. Great with two players, would only play it with 3 or fewer and with everyone familiar + focused to keep it moving.

What Rory is doing

  • Babbling, babbling, trying to talk. Official word count is up to 6ish, with some words meaning many things. Mama = mom, more, that, give me that, food, etc.