In South Korean entertainment, AI is the future.

HAMi moves from cluster to desktop with Olares.

For twenty years, saying “don’t reinvent the wheel” was usually enough to win any argument about writing bespoke software. But that advice assumed two things: writing code was…

Just a passing thought. I recalled that I had implemented a per-route caching policy in the framework I built/maintain/use for building apps, Joystick (private now; OSS from 21'-26'), back around…

Large scale AI models can produce an innumerable variety of output (text, images, code). In most applications, though, teams want very specific output aligned with brand, design, and coding…

I've been playing around with agent harnesses since OpenClaw dropped at the start of the year. I've been particularly interested in agents who have money and can transact for me. So I've been doing…

Training is gradient descent, and gradient descent needs gradients, so every ML framework has an automatic differentiation engine at its core. What is less obvious is that the representation a…

This year's hacker house: same crew, a villa in the south, and the first time we all met up since Claude landed in our lives. Now we all just point it at the scope, and we all surface the same bugs.…

I’m hoping this book will help me learn how machines learn. HOBOKEN, JUNE 24, 2026.  I think I’ve solved my AI dilemma.On the one hand: The ongoing explosion of AI is the biggest science story…

There’s a lot of talk about “AI” and “LLMs” recently. Here are my thoughts, experiences, and perspectives about all that. There seems to be a growing rift in the…

We'll be meeting for Paper Jam #19 on Friday, July 17 at 1pm UTC. We'll be discussing:Charles I. JonesAI and Our Economic Future (2026) [link]This one is a departure proposed by a member of…

SpaceX fell 16% I’m sure this will be fine.

I spent an hour trying to improve a function in my Rust program. Unfortunately, after all my work, it turned out my changes made it slower, so I had to discard the new version. In dismay, I loaded a…

A first-principles exploration of what separates biological neural computation from modern LLMs — and the decades of research that tried to close the gap.

TL;DR: AI slop is bad; human slop is worse

Feed your own music to AI, and it spits out surprise after surprise. Here's my one song served seven ways.

Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there . But this unsettling feeling sinks…

The trillionaires built AGI and told it: “Solve the world’s problems.” It thought for 0.413 seconds and said: “Step one – remove all trillionaires and most…

Agents are powerful because they can reason their way towards a goal using tools to interact with the world. Some tools gather new information, other tools perform actions. The most compelling…

Here’s a random thought for today: In five years, everyone will be a product manager. And I don’t mean this in the Chef Gusteau “Anyone can cook” sense, but that the typical software product manager…

tl;dr: You can fine tune a small specialised information extraction model to work even better with a specific domain (archival index cards) and still have it generalise to unseen schemas. The model…

In a delivery system reshaped by AI, metrics are the only defence against blind risk

Vercel's Eve framework makes durable agents easy - but agents still forget. Here's how I gave one persistent, graph-native memory using the Neo4j Agent Memory Service (NAMS), built around a real…

AI capability does not produce delegation. Trust does, and trust is a function of four variables: continuity, shared context, boundary clarity, and an inspectable track record. The industry races…

AI coding agents collapsed the cost of generating software while the cost of securing it climbed. Frontier models with real cybersecurity capability are gated behind access controls and metered…

I went on a run this morning and got the idea to write this, but Nolen and Robin and Robin again have written other, maybe better versions of it. Still, I have some recent experience and feelings to…

Coding agents can hand you a confident, detailed, and wrong explanation backed by persuasive evidence. The craft of debugging - building hypotheses, gathering evidence, and knowing a system's…

Coding agents write good UI and bad versions of your UI. The Open Design System Format packages a design system as a bundle of markdown, HTML, and CSS an agent can read and build from: tokens that…

“It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.” — Cal Hockley, Titanic (1997) After more than two decades in software, I’m probably closer to the end of my career than the beginning. Lately…

I've been back at work for about a month now after parental leave and a 12 week programming retreat at Recurse Center. We're leaning hard into agentic engineering and I'm bullish on it - I spent a…

Can working memory and attention help LLMs understand humans better?

Somewhere in your business right now, someone is assembling a picture that no single app can provide. It may be the project manager pulling hours from Harvest and budget data from the finance tool to…

We use models built on transformers every day, yet the architecture itself usually stays a black box. It doesn't have to, and following it doesn't take heavy math. A visual, ground-up walkthrough:…

Well as it so happens this week I was alerted to a semi-terrifying development at work. It seems the moronic executives have been pushing very hard for upper and mid management to furnish them with a…

Bulls and bears agree the technology is real—they disagree on the clocks. Not whether AI is a bubble, but whether the payoff arrives before the financing runs out.

When Gi from Python Singapore invited me to speak at PyCon Singapore, I decided it was time to explain why I had left. The talk was called So Kiasu, Still Kena Replaced by AI. It is a very…

This post is from a period before SPLectrum. I wrote a small number of posts, but wasn’t exactly a productive writer. It was not until the arrival of AI that productivity in writing was unlocked for…

Most companies are playing a game they don’t understand the rules to. They’re standing in a room full of competitors, all of them staring at the same two doors. One door says OpenAI. The…

Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably as we scale up model size $N$, dataset…

Agent capacity is cheap now and getting cheaper; my attention is the fixed, scarce resource. Everything I build is attention-budget design: the autonomy boundary, the PR gate, and running everything…

I read 2 days of ChatGPT's raw network traffic to see how it picks sources, which domains get cited, and how to rank in and get cited by ChatGPT.

The new trend in AI coding is called loops. Well, in reality those are just subagents. Yes, subagents that you don't manage, but another AI does for you. And you just watch, and review.

I would like to promote the use of the following term: AI-safe task to mean the following:

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Use "claude -p" headless mode as a pseudo Anthropic API to run requests through an idle Claude Max plan, and the trade-offs that come with it.

I ship a handful of small Mac and iOS apps. Lexicon, idea.log, Evergreen. None of them are big businesses, which means none of them justify me spending an afternoon clicking around App Store Connect…

In a previous post, I tested a bunch of models on the problem of finding bugs in the wild originally reported by Mythos. This proved pretty challenging for even frontier models, with the best models…

AWS just launched Lambda MicroVMs, which gives you dedicated Firecracker VMs per user/session, has near-instant boot time, and offers stateful executions for up to 8 hours with automated suspend…

Model choice is not only about benchmark scores. It is also about what behavior the model inherited.