Leah Reich

@leahreich

Writer, researcher, tech industry survivor, tennis obsessive 🎾, and fortunate to live with Lumpy, the greatest cat in the universe You should go read my newsletter at www.leahreich.com

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Leah Reich@leahreich· 21d

Leah Reich@leahreich· 26d

Thank you, here he is in all his glory

A glorious fluffy gray and white cat lit by a rosy sunset

Leah Reich@leahreich· 26d

From my collection. Somewhat more recent

Leah Reich@leahreich· 27d

Monty Python and the Goalie Fail (I'm truly sorry for this)

three despondent England fans in the stadium, all men in their 60s, two wearing knight costumes

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jul 11

Sorry for taking a photo of my TV like an elderly person but holy shit the crew in this one box, including my forever fav

A photo of spectators at a football match and it’s all legends including R9 and Kaká

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jul 10

Your wish is my command

A large fluff gray & white cat who swears he’s never been fed in his life

A truly dapper gray & white gentleman cat with crossed paws

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jul 10

My mom, forever a mom and forever more on the hustle than I am, texted with this when I said you helped share it. (Santa Caleb was a photo of Caleb the cat [RIP] with a Santa hat) a.co/d/0hbzbHvG

Darth! He would probably prefer Grab the Groom.
I loved that Santa Caleb!

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jul 10

@darthbluesky.bsky.social you are the best, along with this guy

A photo of a resplendent and magnificent gray & white fluffy cat in repose on a credenza below a television showing the shoulder of Marta Kostyuk during her Wimbledon quarterfinal match, which she sadly lost to the brilliant Linda Noskova

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jul 10

@darthbluesky.bsky.social darth if u are still online can u do your thing pls, I will share this Lumpy video with his new pineapple in thanks

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jun 30

Texted some World Cup thoughts to @brianphillips.lol earlier

Text convo:

“I'm rooting for Paraguay just because their coach is wearing a suit (it's sports fashion feeling night at my house)”

“I’m rooting for Paraguay because they’re not Germany “

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jun 26

Also I could have sat for 100 years staring at this painting. Ok enough bombarding a stranger now!

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jun 26

The woman in the reddish jacket here was my favorite. Not only was she slowly taking photos up close, she also had a large magnifying glass. Member hours at the Met are the funniest

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jun 26

That portrait on the left was my favorite of the paintings, and I loved the drawing on the right. These as well, for various reasons – the folds of fabric in the first two??? Wow. (Pardon the terrible photography, I was trying to be unobtrusive, unlike some of the other patrons I saw)

A drawing of a woman and child, I believe the Madonna and Jesus, as done by Raphael

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jun 22

How does this man just keep getting better, I love him so much

An image of Ronaldo O Fenômeno telling the world he likes tennis more than football now

Leah Reich@leahreich· Jun 19

Did I buy these sheets because they match Lumpy’s eyes? Yes I absolutely did

Photo of a beautiful giant fluffy gray and white cat with green eyes on a green sheet

Photo of a beautiful giant fluffy gray and white cat with green eyes on a green sheet doing yoga

Leah Reich@leahreich· May 28

We moved into our new apartment yesterday and already someone is such a brave boy

A photo of a very long boi named Lumpy who is grey and white and fluffy, standing with back feet on a small table and front feet on a credenza, surveying his domain

Leah Reich@leahreich· May 26

I asked this question because all these years without my LPs and CDs (sob sob sob, I miss you all and I regret everything) has me forgetting my faves. But ya'll helped me remember, so here's one of my cannon no-skips

the album cover for The B-52s Wild Planet, with all five members looking FABULOUS

Leah Reich@leahreich· May 25

That's what his foster called him in the Craigslist post with this photo

BABY LUMPY!!!!!! a little fluffy gray and white kitten with a too short bottlebrush tail and the biggest butt you've ever seen on a cat

Leah Reich@leahreich· May 25

For reference, this is how large his paws are

absolutely ginormous white paws on a Mac keyboard. They look like squashed marshmallows at the base of very furry sturdy tree trunks. I call them his stompers.

Leah Reich@leahreich· May 25

Lumpy’s fur does too when he cleans it!

Leah Reich@leahreich· May 11

Imagine knowing your neighbor lives alone but you still sometimes hear her yell, in an extremely high-pitched voice, "CHEEEEEEESE! CHEEEEESE! I GOT OUR FAVORITE CHEESE!"

A photo of a giant fluffy grey and white cat standing on his hind legs with his mega front paws gripping my hand so he can eat some of the white cheese I am holding (his favorite is Dietz & Watson white American but only the kind they slice fresh behind the deli counter, not the prepackaged stuff which tastes like plastic)

Leah Reich@leahreich· Apr 29

Here's a bonus photo of Lumpy if you need to be bribed

a photo of a large gray and white cat asleep in a sunny bed by a window

Leah Reich@leahreich· Apr 13

This is an actual image of Real Zuck meeting AI Zuck

The Spiderman meme with two Spidermen pointing at each other

Leah Reich@leahreich· Apr 8

@darthbluesky.bsky.social guess who turned 11 on Sunday, the cheese lover himself

Leah Reich@leahreich· Apr 8

Well! I got this comment on last week's newsletter. Y'all I have not talked to this person in probably 12 years, and they remember this experience SO WELL. I have never felt more appreciated in my career as a UX Researcher, nor more validated than by the kicker www.leahreich.com/i-promise-im...

A comment that reads:

Leah — we worked together a long time ago at that little connected car startup in SF (Automatic Labs). Your dad's observation about spec documents hit me hard because that's essentially what I do every day now, except the audience is an LLM instead of a human engineer.

I build the data infrastructure that sits behind AI products — pipelines, schemas, the invisible plumbing. And here's what nobody in the AI hype cycle talks about: the single biggest factor in whether an AI agent gives you something useful or gives you garbage is how well a human being described the data to it beforehand. Not the prompt. The metadata. Column names, table descriptions, documentation. The boring stuff.

You and I both remember the OBD-II lesson — the technician wanted to dump raw codes into the app, and it took sitting real drivers in a car to show him that 'P0442 — Evaporative Emission System Leak Detected (small leak)' means nothing to a person who thinks their car is about to explode. I'm doing the same translation work now, just for a different kind of non-expert. The LLM is the driver who has no idea what the check engine light means.

Your dad is right that this is spec-writing from the '50s. And you're right that natural language skills matter. But I'd push it one step further: the people best positioned for this moment aren't just the ones who can write good prompts. They're the ones who can describe the world clearly enough that a machine — or a scared driver, or a confused user — can actually make sense of it. That was your whole thing at Automatic. Turns out it's the whole thing now too

Leah Reich@leahreich· Mar 21

@girinathan.bsky.social I feel you will appreciate this

A screenshot from Reddit describing Alcaraz and Sinner as the sun and the moon, and Medvedev as Mercury Retrograde

Leah Reich@leahreich· Mar 19

oh do I have a photo for you

Leah Reich@leahreich· Mar 19

hi everyone here's Lumpy

this is my cat Lumpy on the floor, he's very large and gray and white and fluffy

Leah Reich@leahreich· Mar 18

How is this both the worst and the best name I've ever heard

a screenshot of a bag of protein candy called "Hormbles Chormbles"

Leah Reich@leahreich· Mar 10

I love living in a world in which the primary way to become obscenely wealthy or even financially secure is to produce advertising under the guise of "content" and/or be a self-promoting, self-centered sociopath. This is great! If anyone needs me I will be ejecting myself into the sun later