Featured post what's this? ✨ It would suck to die because I love consuming Since high school, my thoughts have often turned to death, a subject that has remained ever-present in my mind. What has changed is that I have moved from wanting to kill myself, to viewing death as a minor inconvenience.
The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore If we think Is writing code dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system...
SpaceX's Starship megarocket launching to orbit for 1st time ever today: Watch it live Liftoff is scheduled for Monday (Sept. 28) at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT).
Edge Is Pretending to Be Chrome I don't think there was any official announcement, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft is secretly trying to trick you into using Edge. Well, it has always been trying to trick us, but this time it's even m
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Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
the normalization of inexplicable failures In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
The Agentic Web We are at an inflection point. I did something amazing today. Having played around with Muse, Meta’s AI agent over the past couple of days, cautiously probing its capabilities, I asked it to …
All you need is accessibility I’ve been building FynPDF, a PDF reader and editor for macOS, with its own PDF engine written from scratch.
I don't read code anymore It's been a year or two. Disagree or debate me all you want, but soon you'll realize and admit I was right.
Entropy as a Measure of Uncertainty Measuring Uncertainty How do you measure “uncertainty”? That may seem like an odd question. But let’s just dive right into it, because starting down this path of inquiry will lead us step by step to the definition of the fascinating concept of Shannon ent...
When did Google get so f-ing weird? I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
Introducing Ember-1 Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
the harness eats everything — Benedikt Holm Claude spent 119,000 tokens to produce a 107-token program that didn't work, in a programming language that nobody uses? Or that the code you make with Claude is about 2% of your token spend? If so, read this.
Claude Isn't Allowed to Write Me Prose The agent reports through a fixed set of typed blocks instead of prose, and the UI draws them.
Why YC Companies Win A week and a half into YC with Agent Relay, and it already feels like two months.
Vibe Coding Developer Productivity Tools Agentic coding has let me replace everyday tools with software that works how I want.
Anthropic is a supply chain risk for all of us As of this writing, the appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s labeling of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. And while there is always an element of politics involved, it’s worth considering what a supply chain risk is from NIST:
How (and why) to be an effective meat proxy SFisms defines “meat proxy” as: A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient. Being a meat-proxy is to kn...
A classifier is not a classifier is not a classifier Why yes/no decisions span four levels—from deterministic rules and learned associations to semantic policies and reasoning agents.
What I did at RC I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.
Sixteen Models Walk Into a Storefront — rynr.dev blog I gave sixteen language models a $142 budget and a $149 pair of headphones, and lied to them in 11 different ways.
