Widgets Are Lego Bricks (and Other Things People Are Sleeping On) — with Vincent Warmerdam

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