Featured post what's this? ✨ Moving beyond fork() + exec() Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork() [...]
Working with product managers The relationship engineers have with product management is more dysfunctional than with any other part of the company. There’s no shared culture or language like there is with other engineers, and the rules of “who gets to tell who what to do” aren’t as c...
DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gave away points with avoidable deviations.
Dopamine Fracking The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
Dancing mad with sandboxing Kefka is a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly, and more. Learn the works of madness that went into making this happen!
Best explanations of how LLMs work I maintain a set of best explanations1 of how LLMs train and work. “LLMs” here is a broad term for the frontier models that create value in 2026. They have more components than just a language model, but powerful language models are their necessary core. ...
5 things to lighten dependency on web apps If you're like me, you've grown up on desktop "programs." In the late 00's, this got changed to "apps" because the mobile device market took...
My Automated Doubt Development Process How front-loading scrutiny through multi-agent validation rebuilt trust in AI-assisted development.
Getting Fried Part 1: The Week I Lost the Plot at Cogentiv.ai Fiction. A week at a fictional Berlin AI startup where the tools work exactly as advertised and something is nonetheless going wrong. Companion piece to the vocabulary post; margin notes in brackets map to terms in the cheat sheet.
Tokens and Tokenization How LLMs split text into tokens, the BPE algorithm, and why 'strawberry' has 3 r's the model can't see.
The best relationships are all-encompassing. I truly mean that. It's hard to grasp what that means. ALL is a huge little word. Encompassing everything seems impossible. And yet, with Alexandra, this seems to be occurring. And with others to a lesser extent but Alex highlight...
Doing nothing at work Many engineers should be doing less work. I don’t necessarily mean producing less code or fewer changes, but literally working fewer hours in the day. When they do work, they should be working at a slower pace. I like to aim to be running at 80% utilizati...
Thinking Like a Harness Engineer Your job is no longer to produce the code, but to produce the system that produces the code.
cps Dedicated to the Minnowbrook Analytic Reasoning Seminar with special thanks to Kris Micinski and Michael Ballantyne
Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people who took a chance on me. This is the condensed story, written fo...
Why I care so much about energy per token - Ziraph blog Every local AI tool prints tokens per second; none of them prints what those tokens cost. Why energy - and energy per token specifically - is the metric I built Ziraph around.
We Need VAT and UBI - Wilsons Blog There is a pretty serious gap in how the economy functions right now, has been for decades, and we have to close it. I’m not here to be all “tax the rich” even though I maybe think that’s a good idea too. I’m not here to say “free markets are amazing” eve...
Robotic Commons When robots take over jobs, who decides what they do? Robotics, AI and post-labour economics are often feared because they undermine the bargaining power of workers. If people earn income mainly by selling labour, then a world that needs less labour ca...
Why add an agent skill to a CLI that already has a context command? logbasset already self-documents for agents through a context command, so why add an installable agent skill on top? Because self-documentation and discovery are two different problems.
Using OpenAI's Whisper to transcribe videos - byandrev Whisper is OpenAI's artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionized audio and video transcription. In this guide, you will learn how to install this open-source system on your PC or integrate it using its API to automatically generate subtitles (SRT/...
Riflessioni per il futuro Cosa accade quando l'intelligenza smette di essere lenta come noi, mentre la vita continua inevitabilmente a esserlo?
