Featured post what's this? ✨ Giving and taking credit in big tech companies Engineers often complain that visibility should be their manager’s job. In other words, they think engineers should be able to focus on the code, while their manager figures out who’s doing well and rewards them.
Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days. It Still Has Not Said What Changed at That Plant After 2013, or Why Two Thousand Negative Tests Should Mean Anything. A company’s public statement in the middle of an outbreak is not marketing. It is evidence — what the company said it knew, and when, published to the
SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? | JFrog The JFrog security research team recently identified a supply chain attack targeting the `xinference` package on PyPI. Versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, and 2.6.2 were compromised and yanked by maintainers after users reported suspicious behavior. If you installed o...
Don't be a meat proxy Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:
More German than many Germans I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
Invisible Problems During the pandemic, we completed one of our largest projects at work. To celebrate, since we couldn't meet in person, we all ordered food on DoorDash and played an online escape room game together. W
Qwen Studio QWEN STUDIO DISCORD Today, we are officially releasing Qwen 3.8-Max, the most capable model in the Qwen family to date. This also marks the first time we will open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model — the open weights will be released next week....
Let the Sand Think The best intelligence money can buy will soon reach almost everyone. What does that do to ours?
The Actor Was the Expensive Part AI video models like ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 can now generate finished film, sound and image together, in a single pass from reference material, holding characters and voices consistent across shots. That collapses the real cost of moviemaking, which was...
Let the machines in – Flights of fancy “From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in my better moments think so still, that it would be possible in this manner to participate in the existence of everyone; such...
I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence For the first time I'm choosing my daily driver models on tokens per second rather than raw intelligence. Why ~100tok/s might be the new 100ms, where the speed gains stop mattering, and the price war that's coming.
Why are all the amount values negative? A few days ago I got this email from a customer. Something about all the amounts coming out as negative. I converted their PDF. PDF Sample Converted Sample The customer was right, all amounts were coming through as negative. Pretty weird. Interestingly th...
When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think Field notes from a seasoned distributed systems software engineer and software architect leading public-facing systems that scale for millions of users.
Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive economic growth today? One line of evidence that AI might lead to explosive economic growth is the precedent set by the Industrial Revolution. For hundreds of years — 1252 to 1652, to be precise — the compound annual growth rate of per capita real GDP in the UK was around 0.07%...
Your boss profits from your excuses (here's the proof) | gilbert ramirez Every excuse you've repeated for years has an author — and it's usually whoever profits when you stay put.
Steeping through data and brewing a database I wanted to understand what goes in a tea, and after finding a thousand of them the only way out was to overengineer an explorer
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook Despite what I said in April, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.
The Triangle Game, from Zero A beginner-friendly visual guide to a colouring game with people and coloured connections, and the 2026 proof that its long-term score grows without limit.
Call stack diffs Inspired by HumanLayer’s “Program Design” section in Why Software Factories Fail, I’ve recently added a permanent system instruction for coding agents to communicate all planned changes or implementations inline as call stack diffs:
Don’t credit the LLM – Isaac Su Lately, an odd habit seems to have caught on among my peers when they’ve done something with an LLM.
