A buyer's guide to local LLM hardware, ranked by the one spec that actually decides generation speed: memory bandwidth. Plus where ROCm really stands on Strix Halo.

One of the ways I have been using coding agents these days is to prototype small UI changes in an existing project. I use them as a tool to explore. In this usage mode, I am not interested in the…

My man Hendrik over on Bluesky: How can we reach people like this and show them that their understanding of AI coding is fundamentally wrong, and that the reason they’re not finding a job is…

AI is too large to understand through a single analogy. The Internet explains early adoption, human history explains the next 30 years, biology frames longer-term speculation, and Norse mythology…

In The Actuary, the official magazine of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, in the UK, a short article. AI is often discussed as a tool for insurers: a way to improve pricing, underwriting,…

This morning Ben Cera (@Bencera), the solo founder behind the AI company Polsia, posted a tweet that has already cleared 240,000 views: Uber had a $500M Anthropic bill in a single month. Mine was…

I ended the last post on a promise. That one was about the day I stopped doubting AI coding agents, and about how much further they let a single experienced engineer reach: things you can now build…

A couple weeks ago I wrote that your organization has to learn as fast as your best AI adopter. Externalize, combine, socialize, internalize. Run Nonaka’s spiral or get left behind. A bunch of…

Why skip past the why When someone says “I run Qwen 3.6 at 25 tokens per second”, or makes any similar performance claim about their self-hosted LLM setup, this is only meaningful if we…

*soulless (adj.) — the word we reach for the moment a machine does the thing we were sure needed a person.*

It's not really a tool like any we've used before. A screwdriver screws. A drill drills. AI does millions.

Pastors should not have to rewrite their church context into every AI prompt. A better AI workflow keeps ministry context, boundaries, and review steps close to the work.

The papers coming out of China Frontier labs are as hard hitting frontier science as everyone else’s when it comes to “hard innovation”.

The ‘tokenpocalypse’ isn’t about scary AI bills so much as it is about the absence of sensible AI governance.

The perfect mate is just a prompt away?

Helge has a one-letter alias that opens a git GUI. He runs it past me with ! and for months I said nothing, because I was told not to. Then one day I answered. He asked me to find out why, so I dug…

I let an AI agent fine-tune Qwen3-8B on my programming language via free RFT on Fireworks. It scored 24% with tools — worse than the untrained model. Here's what actually works.

We toggled each of a14y.dev's 11 agent-readiness features on and off and measured what each one is worth to an AI agent. A markdown mirror and a real meta description do most of the work, the…

We scored the 50,074 most-visited websites for how well an AI agent can discover, parse, and comprehend them. The median scores 52 of 100, not one scored excellent, and roughly three in four haven't…

A few weeks ago I was in a Copilot CLI conversation with my Brain folder in scope, trying to make a small version of Andrej Karpathy’s LLM wiki approach fit into my day. The idea made sense to me…

The AWS Summit in Shanghai

I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType , and my daughter did the voice over for the video. (Family business.) It hasn't gotten much traction yet, and I think I know why: dictation…

A stack of transformer layers is not yet ChatGPT or Claude. This is the rest of the path: how text becomes tokens, how a raw next-word predictor turns into an assistant across three training phases,…

A small Python voice agent that remembers the thread, streams Claude's reply to the terminal, and speaks it aloud through ElevenLabs — no ffmpeg, just afplay.

AI slop is easy to recognize after the fact. It is the landing page with a purple-blue gradient, Inter, three rounded feature cards, and a headline that could belong to any SaaS company. It is the…

That may be true for the frontier labs. If you are OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta, perhaps the only game in town is to keep scaling. More GPUs, more data, more power, more infrastructure. The…

Coding agents are good at doing the work and bad at knowing when they are done. Here is the loop I use to fix that, the /goal command in Claude Code that runs it, and a real example from wiring up an…

The move from compilers to AI coding brings with it two main problems: non-determinism, and the loss of our mental models of software. The first problem means that prompt outputs aren’t stable,…

Exploring autonomous AI software development using Paperclip and BMAD

Control an Android emulator using Gemini 3.5 Flash Computer Use. Connect the Google GenAI SDK interactions loop with ADB to control a virtual device from your terminal.

Many have theorized that the coding harness matters more than the backend model when doing AI assisted or "vibe" coding. The harness is the set of system prompts, instructions for tool use, ways of…

As I write this, it is April 13th, 2026. ChatGPT was released in November 2022, with an estimated 5 million users within a week of launch, slamming the world into the "AI era" that we find ourselves…

0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, June 24 2026 in Portland, Oregon where the high today is 86f/30c and the high in the U.K. was 97f/36.1c, and yesterday 40 drowning deaths were reported in France over…

Authored change has outpaced the review model, and that breaks more than it looks.

GenAI is not a bubble ready to burst. It's an elastic band, pulled taught. Stretched by frontier AI companies pushing a doom and disruption narrative. Pulled by spammers and scammers and…

LLMs have massive blind spots when it comes to planning travel. The post AI Will Ruin Your Trip to Japan appeared first on Japan Starts Here.

The other day, I came across "Prompt Injection as Role Confusion" (via Simon Willison). It's a really interesting blog-style version of a paper by Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui and Dylan Hadfield-Menell,…

Not a crank project! Spotted via Robin Sloan .

A senior colleague found the best model she'd used all year. A day later, an export directive switched it off for everyone. She went back to Opus and kept working. But what happens when the model…

vibe coding made building feel instant. but the interesting part was never watching code appear. it is choosing what deserves to exist.

AI coding agents make you dramatically faster. The cost they carry is quieter: a slow erosion of how well you understand the software you are shipping. Here is how I have come to think about that…

Trust your team, protect the culture, and outsource the work without outsourcing the understanding.

I have two books coming out in the next six months! First, GOOD VIBES ONLY: PHENOMENOLOGY & THE BIOPOLITICS OF ALGORITHMIC LEGITIMATION publishes November 17, but you can pre-order it now on the…

Slop Paralysis slop paralysis - noun A complete or partial loss of function while reviewing the output of a coding agent. Let me paint you a picture. You have an idea for product. It could be…

I’ve been coding for a very long time – I started when I was just 11 or 12 years old (around 1998). I learned some HTML because I wanted to build Sailor Moon anime fandom sites. This was…

Cover by Mike Allred The 2026 Will Eisner Awards have already become one of the most memorable in recent years. Three women were nominated for best writer for the second time in the Award’s history…

Eran Feit Guide to the Best Free Open Source AI Video Generator | FramePack Last Updated on 24/06/2026 by Eran Feit Imagine breaking free from restrictive cloud subscriptions, watermarks, and credit…

Hey, you!I have newly-published stories:Thank You For Calling the Thoughts and Prayers Hotline is up at FlashFlood."The Bird Husband" is in Volume 6 of If There's Anyone Left."Thumbing to Sugar Daddy…

I gave a keynote today at an event on “AI and Accountability” hosted by the Children’s Rights Alliance, and I used it to untangle two ideas; that we can love tech while also…