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There May Be Nobody There
Why AI;DR immediately makes sense: readers are looking for a human mind behind the words, not just useful information without effort, personality, or authenticity.
Qwen attempt at the Audit Research Prompt
Today Aug 19 2026 I tried from a non logged in page for Qwen, to attempt some answering of the previous Audit Research Prompt. As the Qwen chat page which I used does not accepts prompts longer than…
Can Ai’s Remote view – Test 2 – three targets.
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Software Factories Can Handle UX
The hardest thing about running an arm’s length software factory has been anything that touches UX. If your quality bar is high, a human still has to look at a screen and use it, and what comes back…
Exploring text generation watermarking
Anthropic recently announced that in compliance with a new EU AI generated content law, they will be watermarking content generated using their models. While there are differing opinions on whether…
Worth Reading: On AI Coding and Its Discontents
A lot of AI-coding enthusiasts are making claims along the lines of “ AI coding tools are like compilers; you supply intent, they translate it into code, and who ever looked at the machine-code…
Blog/2026-08-18/Watermark Yourself
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_Stylometer.jpg}}|thumb|Moderators sound like moderators]] Recently there was a big hullaballoo about the fact that Claude is watermarking their…
Niu Lai, or Why Human Art is Always Superior to Generative AI
You have probably heard of Tommy Wiseau's The Room , a B-movie that everyone mocked upon its release, only for people to return to it years later and admire its lack of quality and horrible dialogue,…
Talking with David Pearce on Twitter
This is a collection of twitter discussions with David Pearce. He is a hedonic utilitarian, essentially, and he takes that position to an extreme conclusion: that life should be re-engineered to…
[3029] Overemphasizing AI in explaining Malaysia’s second quarter 2026 growth
Malaysia’s strong GDP growth in recent quarters has been attributed to sectors relating to artificial intelligence build-up. More often than not, that means…
Re: "Die Mad About AI" by Kristin McTiernan
The essay raises good points, but drops the ball.
AI Introduction Part 3: Workflow Patterns (Part 1)
Anthropic defines an important difference between workflows and agents: Workflows, or workflow patterns, are systems where LLMs are exercised (used) through predefined code paths. Agents, or agentic…
Mark Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto Shows What Little The AI Future Offers
Mark Zuckerberg of Meta fame posted a manifesto. He lays out an idea of a "future for everyone", although I don't think his group of everyone comprises those outside his tax bracket. The screed…
Learning Mahjong with AI help
A number of my dad friends play Mahjong, so I figured this would be a good time to finally take the time to learn to play. I’ve been able to use AI tools in a way that makes learning extremely…
just reiterating
I had to have The Talk with my boss today. You know the one: Nobody's saying you have to use 'AI', but you really should experiment with frontier models. Almost everyone else on the team loves them.…
Extensibility is the precondition
Every product is already being graded on whether a user's agent can add to it.
What Is Reasoning
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me…
Fifty-five billion tokens
Fifteen months of agent session logs: 55 billion tokens across 14 models (and what they would have cost at API rates)
Using hetzner's free inference in your coding agent
Hetzner is offering some free inference and since free tokens are always welcome it would be a shame not to give the models for a spin. Specially since they now offer Qwen3.8-27B for free, which is…
Benchmarking Quantized LLMs for Local Coding Agents Part 5: Do Qwen's Recommended Sampling Parameters Explain the Thinking Penalty?
In Part 1 and Part 2, I reported some peculiar behavior for quantized Qwen3.5-2B models. In Part 3 I moved to Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, and in Part…
The machine never raises its voice
An analysis of writing style of LLMs
AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy
Forwarding unedited AI-generated content wastes everyone's time.
You are an AI Assistant, but what am I? — Why I tell my Agent I'm an expert at everything
Do 2026 models still give worse answers to users they judge less educated? 800 multiple-choice questions and 20 advice scenarios across Sonnet 5, GPT 5.6 Luna, and DeepSeek V4 Flash — and why you…
Digital Immortality
Even now, as you’re reading these words, hundreds of robots are poring over them, and carrying them away.
no agents after 8pm
lately i’ve been busy with work. being in the sweaty, humid summer often leaves little reason to leave the comforting AC for the humid outdoors. naturally, this meant i was spending more and more…
I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My CLAUDE.md
Lift up my agent in prayer.
How to Make Claude Code Do Things Its Own Docs Don't Mention
A plan of mine hinged on "a startup hook can only add context". The installed Claude Code binary said otherwise, and the docs would not say so for weeks. Docs lag, omit, and describe the version the…
Humans are Becoming Simple Megaphones
AI has not just entered the workforce. It has begun speaking for it. Over the past two years, the rise of large language models has transformed how we work, far beyond coding. People now turn a few…
What Replaces Git When Agents Write the Code
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OpenSpec: The agreement layer that keeps your agent honest
AI coding assistants confidently build the wrong thing when requirements live only in chat. OpenSpec adds a lightweight spec layer — explore, propose, build, archive — so you agree on what to build…
Previously Unmanufacturable
Every software product has its own grammar: Figma has frames and components, Salesforce has accounts, contacts, and opportunities, CAD has tools and constraints. Capability and required expertise…
You can't stop people from using AI
I am seeing a lot of resentment from leaders / managers / team members that their coworkers are using AI, which I can understand, but I feel that putting blame on individuals is wrong. There are…
Condensing Twenty Years of Wisdom in One Markdown
I've been shipping at a genuinely ridiculous pace lately, and somewhere in there I stopped being an engineer and became the bottleneck in a twenty-person team of AI agents. Don't worry, I am working…
The 10x Era Is Here. Ten Times More What?
Ten times more code is the shallowest ambition for coding agents. The real leverage lies deeper.
My writing is not 100% organic anymore
What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.
How I Run Local LLMs for Coding (and Why the Quant Matters)
How I run a coding LLM locally on a single RTX 3090 Ti — the model journey from Claude-distilled to a dense 27B coder, why MoE beat dense for speed, why I stayed on llama.cpp over vLLM on Ampere, and…
Claude's Smoking Gun
Why does Claude keep finding "The Smoking Gun" and being wrong about it?
The Point
I’ve been struggling a bit with two seemingly contradictory views that I hold: I hugely value AI-generated code, 3D models, and even mockups of my kitchen redecoration. I intensely dislike…
The job ain’t quite the same
I’ve had a really fun time using Codex/Claude to build whatever software I want. Early this year, the SaaS-pocalypse drawdown in software stocks was justified by the notion that many of those…
Detecting Claude and ChatGPT using letter counting.
Last time I built a detector that counts four-letter runs (n-grams) and tells you whether Claude Opus 5 wrote something. It works well - about 91% on text it has never read. It has one obvious hole:…
Obsidian + Claude Code: The Setup I Use Every Day
How I use Obsidian as the markdown editor and project organizer next to Claude Code. No plugin, no MCP server, one folder per project.
Opus 5 doesn't use em-dashes in code comments
I’ve been using Opus 5 as my main coding for the last few days 1, and I noticed something odd: the code comments stopped using em-dashes; everything is double hyphens (--) now. Instead of going off a…
The Industrialization of Mathematical Intelligence: Beyond Proof Abundance to Open Questions of Governance
A technical and institutional analysis of Jacob Tsimerman’s account of AI-driven mathematical change, Timothy Gowers’s recent reflections, the Leiden Declaration, frontier-model access, and the open…
How I lend my computer to coding agents
Last edited on August 18th, 2026. Since the end of 2025 that automatically generating useful code can be unlocked by giving large language models (LLMs) the tools and resources to work in loops,…
Why I Haven’t Written Anything This Year
I haven't sat down and written a newsletter post from scratch all year. Not one. Oh, I've published plenty and I stand behind all of it, but none of it started with me at a keyboard and a blank…
2026-08-18 14:13
I’m not so sure that there isn’t some hay to be made around insisting that AI firms should be distributing half their profits to the writers whose works they stole to train their models,…
My thoughts on AI are complicated
Existing on the internet has felt like sensory overload lately. Scrolling on social feeds is an endless exercise of "is this AI?" and reading comment sections full of AI accusations. Everywhere I…
#the medium-message is sprawl
You either die a hero or live long enough to see your AI notetaker app make a smart ring
The future of AI is private
Two curves are crossing. Model quality is a wasting edge and hardware is sprinting the other way. When they cross for good, intelligence stops being a subscription and becomes a utility you own. Here…