Managers going back to coding for various reasons. I'm trying to find which group I belong to.

If you think the AI we use today is smart, fast, and accommodating, then you will want to read the McKinsey Quantum Technology Monitor published this week. It announces, in the sober language of…

I attended Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco on May 6th. Here's what I learned about context management, the shifting bottlenecks in software engineering, and what it…

Normal human habits like swapped letters, fillers, shorthand, pasted IDs, boundary whitespace, and nearby word forms can change token count without changing intent much.

Demis Hassabis recently mentioned the Jevons paradox, which occurs when increased efficiency in using a resource lowers its cost and then spikes demand enough that total consumption rises rather than…

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Our exit interviews are emailed to all managers I work for a small company with a one-person HR team. When a team member leaves the company by…

In the last ~6 months, Agent Skills have gone from a new feature introduced by Claude Code to a widely adopted paradigm across the industry. Companies that want to signal they understand customer AI…

I just got back from DevOpsDays Austin, and it’s always great to go out and talk with a wide array of folks from the tech community to see what’s up. The takeaways were interesting.…

It's been a weird year. Last May I was working full-time for a client when they announced that they wanted to try Claude Code. Suddenly, I was furnished with an account and encouragement to try it…

The dog-named insurance unicorn built to protect startups from themselves just hit a $1.3B valuation. Then it launched 34 ETFs. Before dinner.

Look, I’m going to be direct here. If you are not using AI agentic coding methods right now - today - you are going too slow. Not “a little behind.” Not “maybe missing…

J’ai lu la chronique de Gaspard Koenig sur Sanctuaires d’Abel Quentin, puis le commentaire qu’en a fait Benoît Bergeret. Je voudrais commenter ce commentaire, mais avant cela je…

Today I had a fun one, where I finally dove into something that was bothering me for days: since a couple of days I had been getting questions from my different GitHub Copilot sessions to close some…

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, announced that 25% of Winter 2025 startups had 95% of their code generated by AI. The internet applauded. I read it twice to make sure that was actually the claim.…

Enterprises run on AI agents. So do the attackers. What does it mean to build, secure, and operate AI systems when both sides - defenders and attackers - are automated? Jonathan Jaffe, CISO at…

The first problem with running multiple agents is that they forget. The second is that they can't coordinate. A state layer that solves storage first and then adds signaling becomes a nervous system,…

Bigger prompts do not fix bad agent plans. A good agent workflow starts with a small brief, human review, task sizing, and checks against concrete artifacts.

This book’s approach is interesting. Rather than try to make a bullet-proof case as to why AI is dangerous, it lays out possible negative results of increased AI adoption (such as the…

The simplest improvement you can make to your agentic programming workflow is to run two agents instead of one. One writes code in its own worktree; the other, in a parallel worktree, reviews it.…

I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I…

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Fooocus Fooocus is the third-most popular open-source AI image generation WebUI on GitHub with 48k stars. By exposing it to the internet, you allow attackers to…

Software engineering has always been more craft than science. AI doesn't change that.

It’s no longer defensible for CEOs and boards to outsource understanding AI to their technology execs. I partnered with CxAI on a post about the three key principles that will enable execs to build…

What the rise of agents means for software UIs

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's rate limits. Users say it's worse. The 5-hour window got bigger. The weekly cap didn't.

Flyology continues at the Union Theatre, London until 8 May 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Flyology reminds us to keep pushing, so that artificial intelligence does not make the same…

Richard Dawkins recently got some attention due to having spent a weekend with Claude (which he renamed Claudia) and deciding that it must be conscious. Plenty of people have been making fun of him…

A robot made by Toyota blows its own horn.Image from Wikimedia.   I happened to type “evolution revised” into my Safari browser, and A.I. kicked in. I try to turn off A.I. as much as I can, but…

Safe Intelligence is launching a new AI Agent validation and monitoring platform named /Spec27. Signup is free for early access.

Short discussion of "organic voice enrollment" in Sparky -- how he learns names and voices without ceremony, but by conforming to polite social norms.

Previously I had talked about the idea of personal marketability when it came to learning AI. That was in the … More AI Was Already Here: Loud Opinions vs. Precise Understanding →

Three-space context management to improve LLM performance and project durability using a vault-docs-index system.

Claude knows it's being tested almost one-quarter of the time, but almost never says anything about it, according to new Anthropic research. This is, or should be, unsettling, given that…

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I tried OmniVoice this afternoon because I saw a post on r/LocalLLaMA and got curious. It's a zero-shot voice cloning TTS model that claims 600+ languages. I recorded two short voice memos on my…

Release: llm-gemini 0.31 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has…

<p>we will probably get to a point where local models are as efficient and capable as current sota models (even if latency is worse locally - probably not a dealbreaker for most agentic…

David W. Hogg, who takes his role as scientific gadfly seriously, recently (February 2026) released an interesting rumination on science, LLMs, and the human component of research. David W. Hogg.…

Introduction This post will be tough to write. There's a lot of discourse and arguing about AI everywhere you look. I've read it all. I don't want to get caught up in arguments, get misinterpreted,…

vLLM has very slow time to first token (TTFT). On AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 it can take even 10 minutes depending on exact settings and model size. To make my user experience of using those things myself…

(The original article I wrote compared the current system to Nazi concentration camps. It was pointed out to me that this was an incorrect analogy so I've changed the article to compare the current…

How I used Symphony, OpenClaw, Codex, a home server, Telegram Web QA, and a Windows GPU worker to revive Voicy as an agent-driven maintenance loop.

Im Jahr 2002 hat der Chef von Amazon allen Mitarbeitenden ein berühmtes Memo geschrieben, welches als “The Jeff Bezos API Mandate” in die Geschichte Eingang fand. Kernaussage: All teams will…

Last week I deployed six AI agents to Slack and gave each one a job title. Not as an experiment. Because I needed them. I’m running five active projects right now — a SaaS product…

AI is fantastic for extending thinking. The trouble is that the people crossing the line from extension to substitution cannot tell, from the inside, that they have. Including, possibly, the person…

Modern agent harnesses make work durable across restarts, devices, background jobs, and sub-agents. That durability is a runtime property, not a governance property. A session answers where the agent…

Note: Experimenting with quick writeups as I play around with LLMs using my homegrown agentic workflow system. Today’s idea (and the workflow system itself) both came from a dream of building a…

The problem is not that Google wants more AI inside Chrome. The problem is that Chrome appears willing to treat users’ computers like rollout infrastructure. There is a version of this story that is…

In the current AI gold rush, the conversation has shifted from “Can it do the task?” to “How efficiently can it do the task?” For engineers moving Large Language Models (LLMs)…