Featured post what's this? ✨ Why I remain a skeptic I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional disma...
Why I remain a skeptic I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional disma...
N8N in Production: Lead Qualification That Works — Darko Trpevski N8N lead automation works for a week then breaks. Here's how to build it right: validation, fallbacks, locking, monitoring. 100% reliability.
The End of Mathematics — Daniel Litt I'm currently returning to Toronto from a summit on the future of mathematics, at OpenAI. Sebastian Bubeck asked me to talk a bit about the future we'd all like to avoid, where humans are mathematically disempowered. Jacob Tsimerman advised us to try to p...
Every Check Was Green. Five Guarantees Were Not. 254 tests, zero clippy warnings, no unsafe, five CI jobs — all passing, and five real holes underneath. The worst one: our taint floor silently stopped working whenever a directory wasn't writable. Each hole, and the five ways a check can be present and p...
Codex hit 15 million users four months early The June 2 trendline pointed to 10 million by mid-October. Combined Codex + ChatGPT Work crossed 15 million in August. See the missed projection →
Lazy loading YouTube embeds Since I'm adding many YouTube videos to the new Web Gems section, I decided to lazy load all YouTube embeds on the website. The concept is straightforward: instead of loading the full YouTube player for every video on a page, only the video's thumbnail an...
Which Data Repository Should You Use? The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
So Who's Going to Buy All These Tokens? Assume every AI model works exactly as promised. The spending still doesn't pencil out, and the receipts so far point at so-so automation: jobs traded for tokens with the productivity dividend still missing.
5G, full bars, nothing loads: Or how I learned to start learning with LLMs A crowded station, a useless 5G signal, and a love for rabbit holes. LLMs offer a unparalleled opportunity to learn new things immediately and in ways that match your preferred learning style.
Yes, Code Review is Still Necessary Three times this week an AI agent wrote code that worked but was structurally wrong. Here's why code review still matters in agentic development.
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Custom FreeBSD UCARP Setup This entry is sponsored by fme AG company – and this article aspires to share about interesting HA setup on node01a and node01b VMs. Below drawing was created by Tim Serong and greatly visual…
AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them. The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
Lessons Learned from Fixing Flaky Tests with Claude We recently sped up our integration tests by a factor of ten by running many of them in parallel. There were several flaky tests in the new test suite. Claude was really useful in getting rid of al…
Could a computer scientist build a brain? How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel over baseline with Codex in GPU Mode's qr_v2 problem Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
Unattended Remote Access on Wayland with RustDesk RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Everything is about to “go dark” I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
