ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Vincent Warmerdam has been the first full-time hire at a startup, a spacey punster who accidentally got himself a job, a bartender at an Amsterdam comedy theater, and a Dutch bike tour guide — and he'll tell you all of it was career development. Now doing DevRel at Marimo, Vincent makes the case for reactive notebooks, Lego-brick widgets, and why "number go up" is not a data science strategy. Also: chickens die. The model doesn't know. This matters more than you think.
What's inside
- How a spacey pun accidentally launched Vincent's career
- Why Marimo's constraints make it better for LLMs, not just humans
- The gorilla hiding in your dataset — and why the model missed it
- Vibe coding vs. notebooks: three cells at a time as a discipline
- Widgets as Lego bricks: reusable, composable, criminally underused
- Cognitive debt, confirmation bias, and sycophantic data science
- Why natural intelligence is still, actually, a pretty good idea
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United States
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