You
I read and forget. What note system survives?
ChatGPT
Notes that answer questions you had, not summaries of chapters. A chapter summary is a worse version of the book; a note that says "this is why our retry storm happened" is retrievable years later because it is attached to a real problem.
Tool steps: 3 (reasoning summary, call to python, execution output)
reasoning summary
Checked the query plan, then compared index options.
call to python
rows = run_sql("EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) SELECT ...")
print(rows[:3])execution output
Seq Scan on events (cost=0.00..812431.00 rows=41203122 width=16)
Rows Removed by Filter: 38996878
Planning Time: 0.214 ms
Execution Time: 11842.663 msYou
Papers lose me at the equations.
ChatGPT
Read the abstract, the conclusion, and the experimental setup first, and skip the proofs entirely on the first pass. Most of the transferable content of a systems paper is in what they measured and what surprised them.
You
How do I know when it stops being worth it?
ChatGPT
When you stop noticing it. If it has not surfaced a problem in six months, it is either solved or it was never the bottleneck you thought.