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,…

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…

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…

The essay raises good points, but drops the ball.

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 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…

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…

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.…

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:…

How I use Obsidian as the markdown editor and project organizer next to Claude Code. No plugin, no MCP server, one folder per project.

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…

Lift up my agent in prayer.

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…

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…

Ten times more code is the shallowest ambition for coding agents. The real leverage lies deeper.

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…

Fifteen months of agent session logs: 55 billion tokens across 14 models (and what they would have cost at API rates)

. [What Replaces Git When Agents Write the Code](what-replaces-git-when-agents-write-the-code-cover...

If you write code, you want your API to be clean, concise, and beautiful. Less explicit, less verbose. Agents may be the opposite. Give them a full explicit API, and don't leave anything hidden.

Why does Claude keep finding "The Smoking Gun" and being wrong about it?

Do 2026 models still give worse answers to users they judge less educated? 1000 multiple-choice questions and 30 advice scenarios across Sonnet 5, GPT 5.6 Luna, and DeepSeek V4 Flash — and why you…

An analysis of writing style of LLMs

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…

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…

What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.

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…

Every product is already being graded on whether a user's agent can add to it.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Forwarding unedited AI-generated content wastes everyone's time.

Announcement, Colab. At AMTA 2026 me and Vera Senderowicz Guerra gave an overview of the state of the art of LLM usage to translate English into a selection of languages, from low-frequency ones such…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

You either die a hero or live long enough to see your AI notetaker app make a smart ring

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…

Can a five-year-old MacBook challenge Claude Opus 4.6 at code review? Google Gemma 4 takes on a real 1,322-line merge request. Discover the surprising results and two small settings that turned it…

Why falling startup costs, shrinking teams, and instant distribution point to more businesses, more jobs, and faster growth, not less.

This is part of a pair of articles on the impacts of agent driven development - you can read thoughts on backlog here. Excitement continues around coding assistants and we’re really now at the…

Agentic coding tools have become an extremely useful runtime beyond implementing code. Cursor and Claude Code proved that an LLM in a coding-optimized harness can not only generate useful code…

I have taught several different courses on law and AI at Emory Law, and I’m currently teaching “Current Topics in the Law and Policy of AI.” I’m not wild about any of the Law…

What lives between sharing raw chat transcripts and "I solemnly swear I used AI responsibly"?

Customers Bancorp told investors its AI closed commercial loans in seven days instead of 30 to 60. Then an analyst asked what it had saved, and the honest answer was that nobody knows yet. In lending…

AI does not make ambitious software free. It makes bounded technical bets cheap enough to run as a portfolio. The minimum software bet has fallen AI changes the economics of a particular class of…

A working demo used to cost six weeks of somebody's life. Now it costs a weekend — and your executives are still reading it as a credential.