Larry Myers
mostly cycling and technology
Daily Note
September 3, 2025
The tech industry seems to be performing a real time experiment to see if they can survive without a talent pipeline. There’s a continual stream of news about how bad the hiring market is for junior engineers and how senior engineers (that can use an LLM) are doing just fine.
This is likely one of those situations that will take many years to play out before a negative effects are felt. At some point companies will struggle to get a small army of AI agents to understand high level business problems and technology, and realize they have to pay phenomenal sums of money for the dwindling pool of senior engineers. It’s the like the problem of banks maintaining their COBOL mainframe systems, but for everything.
This feels very much like 2008 when there was a significant shift in the tech world and nobody was ready. (See: smartphones and the cloud.)
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About Me
I'm a [Dad, Technologist, Cyclist] living in Chicago with my wife, kids, and cats. There are some ghost shrimp in a fishtank too, but I'm not sure I count them as members of the household.
When I'm not getting paid to code I'm usually playing outside and exploring the city.
Things I've Built
Cycling Weather Forecast
weather.larrymyers.comThere's plenty of weather forecasts out there, but none did a good job of answering the question: "When should I go biking tomorrow?"
So I built one for myself. It's an extremely lightweight traditional webapp with a Go powered backend.
Metra Train Tracker
metra.larrymyers.comMetra has never had a good train tracker, I doubt they ever will. This is a React app with a Go backend that is geared towards people who want to know when the next train is coming with just a quick glance to their phone.
Wordle Solver
wordle.larrymyers.comSome days you just don't want to spend the time staring at your 3rd guess trying to figure out a word that fits. I built this wordle solver to allow me to spend more time analyzing guesses and less time trying to think of words.
Chicago by Bike

Palos MTB Trails for New Riders
When you are new to mountain biking Palos can be both awesome and intimidating. With the right approach it's a great place to learn.

The Lake Michigan Ferry Tour
A self supported 5 day bike tour around the lower half of Lake Michigan.

Illinois Prairie Path / Fox River Trail
Endless miles of mixed surface trails through the western suburbs.

Sheridan Road
Ten miles on one of the best cycling roads through the North Shore.
2025 Ride Stats
Year to Date | 1493 mi |
Week of Sep 1 | 33 mi |
Week of Aug 25 | 51 mi |
Week of Aug 18 | 81 mi |
Week of Aug 11 | 74 mi |
Week of Aug 4 | 38 mi |
