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AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
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AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
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Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
Working with AI is less predictable than traditional software. That makes leadership skills such as context, clarity, and feedback more valuable.
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What AI coding costs you
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
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Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal intent.
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My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
I run a local LLM server on my M4 Pro Mac mini with 48 GB of RAM.
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade.
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Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages
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AI's Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
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I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
Bend just serves as a useful example of my general point regarding vibe-coding as it is recent, high-profile, and has aspects that make it easy to use as an example. I don’t know anything about the author’s history with designing languages or if they actually did consider the tradeoffs below and made what I think is a…
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The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
Claude Code records each session to disk. Those logs include “thinking blocks” — the model’s own reasoning as it works.
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OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.
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Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you
Hook fields that rewrite commands mid-flight, persistent agent memory, auto-mode rules in plain English, self-improving dream loops, and every example is copy-paste ready.
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Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see
How mindless consumption is making our FYPs worse.
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Making MCP cheaper via CLI
I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)
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From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
A few months ago I was tasked with creating an internal tool for the company's engineers: a Chat that used a local LLM. Nothing extraordinary so far…
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I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
Learn how I built an ai receptionist for my brother's mechanic shop
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Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects.
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All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)
When OpenAI released the first version of Sora, I was excited. For years, I'd had this short story sitting on my hard drive, something I'd written long ago and always dreamed of bringing to life as a
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Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
Coding agents as normal technology
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The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
The Tech Market is Fundamentally Fucked Up - AI is Just a Scapegoat
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The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.
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Microgpt explained interactively
Walk through Karpathy's 200-line GPT from scratch. Tokenize names into integers, watch softmax convert scores to probabilities, step through backpropagation on a computation graph, explore attention heatmaps, and see a tiny model learn to generate plausible names.
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The arguments against open source AI are bad
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:
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Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Wolfram's Foundation Tool supplements LLM foundation models with deep computation and precise knowledge. CAG (computation-augmented generation) underlies multiple access methods.
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down the pace of AI progress. I believe you’re being sincere, so…