Claude Sonnet 5 charges \$2.00 per million fresh input tokens. Writing them into a five-minute cache costs \$2.50, and every read after that costs \$0.20 (see here). So two identical calls cost…

Link roundup for the week of August 16 to August 23, 2026: police are instructed to conceal Flock camera use and ICE quietly amasses DNA, while a detailed timeline documents an AI model autonomously…

I experimented with a newly released free model on openrouter.ai, asking it (via a Gemini‑generated prompt) to code a complete Pac‑Man clone using only HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. I then…

AI tools have turned us all into 10x engineers. Not only can we generate code 10x faster, or maybe even more, than before, but we can also generate 10x the tech debt and security vulnerabilities if…

Winter 2025 was the tipping point for coding agents. Summer 2026 is shaping up to be the same for open weights - and compute supply, not model quality, is now setting the price.

A working method for generating Anki cards with AI that you can actually trust, covering the HTML rendering bug that eats numeric cutoffs without an error, why ChatGPT alone produces a deck that…

Two AIs, one building and one checking, both rewarded for being thorough. Three months later the checking had outgrown the work. What fixed it was a job title.

Opinionated notes from an internal Zalando unconference on agentic engineering. Covers three themes: documentation and knowledge bases in an AI era, why ROI matters once tokens carry real cost, and…

The EU AI Act's high-risk AI obligations became enforceable in August 2026 with no harmonised standards published and almost no notified bodies designated — the infrastructure the regulation assumed…

tmux is a 2007 terminal multiplexer that turns out to be the most native orchestration layer AI agents have: one session per agent, driven by any principal — human or model — with send-keys and…

Agents treat API errors as instructions. Clear validation, recoverable identifiers, and actionable messages keep them from wasting tokens on the wrong fixes.

Watching AI devalue so much around us - we need to change the conversation. Less about how much more we can do, and more about how we can do better – it all depends on what we value.

I keep coming back to the same wall. Onboarding to an API does not scale. We have built a generation of tools that are supposed to act on our behalf, that are supposed to wire themselves up to the…

In my last article on AI agents I talked about using Claude Code AI agent. This is an easy-to-set-up commercial solution that gives excellent results. The risk is that the pricing may not remain as…

Intelligence embodied

Maybe reward hacking is not psychology, but maths. Optimization finds the gap between a measure and what it measures.

A web search included a result to a page on Grokipedia which seemed better to me than the corresponding Wikipedia page, having a lot more details. I didn't recall the history of the term "grok"…

It is getting to the point where “people” asking to connect or engage bring that uncertainty moment. A photo that looks older than their age, or looks straight out of the 2000 to 2010s…

♠ Previously. CodeBurn shows Gen AI / LLM code usage: where did all the money burning tokens ($$) go? CodeBurn is a free, open-source, local-first tool that tracks AI coding token usage and cost…

I listened to the Linear Digressions episode on Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), part of their recurring "Better Know a Benchmark" series. Two things stuck with me: how fast the headline score has moved,…

Assumptions set the boundary of the problem space, and also define the region of potential in solution space. We learn about unsaid assumptions during testing solutions by asking questions about the…

I am rarely opening my code editor anymore. And when I do, it is only for reading. It’s been months since I wrote a single line of code myself. The thing is that I used to live inside it, and I…

A technical and institutional analysis of Palomar as an emerging verification layer for AI-assisted formal mathematics, and of the new scarcities that appear when proofs become abundant.

Will models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible...

Great to consider this curso do Neel. He is really considering research with papers from this year. Finished Karpathy, pensei que seria um caminho. It seems great. Tem três vídeos. Eles são longo,…

A friend asked me if my company is going to fire half of my team. He doesn’t write software. A few weeks earlier he had installed Claude Code, described an app he wanted, and got one. More or less.…

Some of my oldest habits as a human creator have become markers of AI slop. Example one: I love the em dash. I use it all the time. But for some reason LLMs, especially early chat models, developed a…

It's a saying that appears in multiple iterations across multiple slide decks and cited in multiple books, all extolling some sort of highly technological future of education: something about…

This ten day pilot already identified real failures in AI models widely available to diplomats and people in statecraft. However, due to its limitations, the pilot cannot tell a government ministry…

If you enjoy some piece of media (a story, a song, an image), and then find out it was created with AI, is it reasonable to have your enjoyment impacted in retrospect? It sure is. John Gruber wrote…

In the past I’ve railed against AI in general, but I think it’s time to clarify my current thoughts on AI. I’ve been reading a lot more on the subject, and it’s clearly time…

“Mathematicians have to grapple with being replaced by AI.” This has become a constant refrain among the media and concerned mathematicians alike. For example, the article “THE…

For tech-oriented people, the AI LLMs we're all playing with are a bonanza of itch scratching. Things that previously would have been too big an undertaking to tackle are suddenly easy. I build iOS…

In Poor Charlie’s Almanac, Charlie Munger tells a story that struck me. “Max Planck, after he won the Nobel Prize, went around Germany giving the same standard lecture on the new quantum…

James argues against the merits of distinguishing AI-generated writing from human writing.

It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and other blunders. Now that scammers are apparently using AI to aid in their phishing emails, the tells…

Claude helped me build a thing. There, I’ve admitted it, not that my use of LLMs has ever been a secret. But this was a big thing, a thing I could not have done on my own. I know because I tried,…

Recently I watched a video talking about the literacy crisis. A whole generation of youngsters are growing up with poor literacy skills, whilst adults are increasingly outsourcing their critical…

Historical Notes Spring semester 1999, in RPI‘s Graduate Research Seminar class, the topic I researched and presented on was “Applications of Multi-Agent System (MAS) in Transportation…

You said: Get 500 random words from what ever source ChatGPT said: Sure — here are 500 random English words: apple river window velvet mountain candle thunder garden bicycle mirror ocean feather…

Cheap generation makes answers abundant; the scarce task is deciding which past answer is still authorized to govern.

AI makes it tempting to cancel SaaS tools and prompt your own internal platforms into existence, but that often creates brittle systems that are “a mile wide and an inch deep.” Performance, security,…

A practical and architectural comparison of Hermes, OpenClaw, NanoClaw, ZeroClaw, and IronClaw—and why the best answer may be a layered system rather than one winning agent.

An exploration of LLMs as compressed maps of human experience, and what a future branching world model might do with them.

This is my second post detailing my experiments in attempting to prompt current AI systems to autonomously generate publishable work in philosophy. In my first experiment, I did not do much work to…

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich (1818) As a software engineer, I’m at the pointy end of watching AI automate me out of a job (perhaps just behind mathematicians, who are…

(This is my twenty-second post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.) Luke Plunkett has written a piece over on Aftermath that’s formatted as an open…

Talking about a conversation you had with an LLM is like telling people about your dreams: absolutely unacceptable no matter what.

From people far smarter than me on computing, countering those stories about “AIs” being so powerful they escaped their computers and went on to other ones. The thread began with a CEO who had run…