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Building better AI tools
I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and...
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AI Market Clarity
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
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The vibe coder's career path is doomed
Let me get one thing out of the way immediately: LLMs are helpful. This isn't about whether LLMs can write code. They can. It's about why vibe coding might be the worst career investment you'll make.
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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a premium newsletter, all while supporting my
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If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
Then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
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The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production
I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.
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LLM architecture comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design
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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI
We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models.
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It's rude to show AI output to people
Feeding slop is an act of war
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Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
How do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads?
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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.
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Death by AI
One man's struggle with his mortality.
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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
Disclaimer: I am a book publisher & I love technology.
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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
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My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...
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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures
Hatching... Cursor Shenanigans Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almo...
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All AI models might be the same
what can language model embeddings tell us about whales speech, and decoding ancient texts? (on The Platonic Representation Hypothesis and the idea of *universality* in AI models)
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LLM Daydreaming
Proposal & discussion of how default mode networks for LLMs are an example of missing capabilities for search and novelty in contemporary AI systems.
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Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts
Back in high school, I remember receiving an email for a study guide from a friend. Instead of the PDF coming attached, it was a link to a site called Dropbox.
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Claude Code Unleashed
ymichael's personal site
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Reflections on OpenAI
I wanted to share my reflections because there's a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like .
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LLM Inevitabilism
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing…
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DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
Marko Elez , a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of…
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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
Metr recently published a paper about the impact AI tools have on open-source developer productivity[^1]. They show that when open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, then they take longer to complete that task compared to other tasks where they…
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Death by a Thousand Slops
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we have recently not only received more AI slop but also more human slop. The latter … Continue reading…
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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars
the AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investors
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Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI
| Learn how to implement OpenAI-style tool calling — from raw REST to elegant Spring AI annotations. Includes real code, diagrams, and…
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Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good
I was expecting this to be pretty bad - but it actually came out quite nicely!