Can you trust your friendly neighborhood LLM? - Chris Beckman
Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) are no longer a niche concern. With real-world incidents causing significant damage, the question remains: can …
Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) are no longer a niche concern. With real-world incidents causing significant damage, the question remains: can …
Safe Artificial General Intelligence through Neuroscience
I keep getting asked why I believe in AGI again. First, I’m now convinced that ChatGPT understands what it reads. Second, reasoning models persuade me that ChatGPT is creative. Third, ChatGPT summarizes texts extremely well, which I believe to be a robust meas…
Spoiler: not really dafont.com is a wonderful website that contains a large collection of fonts. It’s more comprehensive and esoteric than Google Fonts. One of its features is a forum where users can ask for help identifying fonts – check out this poor fellow …
As governments legalize cannabis, they create billion-dollar industries. A trade-off for this massive economic value-add is the need for regulatory tracking technology. This technology is typically dominated by large, proprietary players. In commercial cannabi…
Agents, at least in their previous definition, have been around for a long time, before they ever adopted their current mantra. I'd like to explore a positive future, where there is some level of...
TL;DR Adopting an Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) provider can save huge time and effort when implementing a B2B SaaS product, but it can also result in deep lock-in with the provider. I explain how deploying a SAML Proxy can mitigate this, and provide a ca…
Is it possible to claim that you’re off the hook when it comes to questions of whether usage of GenAI should be allowed, focus on practical usage, and then that’s that? I believe that is a bit too cheap a cop-out.
There's a lot of talk about UX (User Experience), and DX (Developer Experience). But those are usually focused around, well, active users. How does the experience for leaving look?
A raw, honest reflection from a founder to another. After the end of a startup, a relationship, and a brutal year, these 29 lessons explore what it really means to build, break, and begin again.
Why SEO’s page-centric thinking is broken, and how machines are changing the rules of the web.
The ski rental problem is a classic example problem in online algorithms. It feels like a small but interesting problem that can be explained relatively easily while some clever tricks can be applied to it.
Another place for thought infusion
Johanna Larsson is a software engineer, manager, writer, speaker. With over 14 years of experience in software development and management, she has worked with clients from various industries, including finance, healthcare, and education. She is passionate abou…
Anyone can generate an app now. You open Cursor, describe what you want, and out comes clean, well-formatted code. It even has comments. It runs, and the...
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘 - charmbracelet/crush
Rarely in software does anyone ask for “fast.” We ask for features, we ask for volume discounts, we ask for the next data integration. We never think to ask for fast.
The Mosquito Bucket of Death is a safe and environmentally sound way to rid your yard of mosquitoes. Here's how you make them.
I previously blogged about how you can turn your .NET CLI tool into an MCP Server for us with GitHub Copiloty and other AI clients, with the help of the new ModelContextProtocol (MCP) NuGet package.
We are going to compare here classical Webpack bundling, employed by Angular applications, with new Esbuild system. We are going to migrate step by st...
I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum…
Raising our Series B round of financing
Open Access Publication & ACM
From missing real fireflies to learning basic electronics and building my own blinking "fireflies"
Build a secure Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) in ASP.NET Core. Step-by-step tutorial with OpenID Connect, authentication, and API proxying.
Linux continues to grow bigger and better. Here's what's new and notable in the 6.16 release, plus what you need to know about 6.17.
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