What's so hard about continuous learning?
Why can’t models continue to get smarter after they’re deployed? If you hire a human employee, they will grow more familiar with your systems over time, and (if they stick around long enough) eventually become a genuine domain expert. AI models are not like th…
The Age Verification Trap
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
The Little Red Dot
Sometimes, I have 50 tabs open. Looking for a single piece of information ends up being a rapid click on each tab until I find what I'm looking for. Somehow, every time I get to that LinkedIn tab, I p
CIA World Factbook Archive
36 years of structured intelligence data. Search, browse, compare, and export 1,061,522 fields across 281 entities (1990-2025).
Insider amnesia
Speculation about what’s really going on inside a tech company is almost always wrong.
All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.
Account Restricted Without WARNING– Google AI Ultra / OAuth via OpenClaw - Google Antigravity - Google AI Developers Forum
I’m seeking assistance regarding a sudden restriction on my Google AI Ultra account that has persisted for three days. I received no prior warnings or notifications regarding a potential violation. The only recent change in my workflow was connecting Gemini m…
Holden Nelson's various writings
Yes.But not necessarily in the ways you might think n.b. This article could have been a lot longer than it currently is..Concrete and Abstract SyntaxesIn the previous article, Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?, I talked about how many people will not …
Thoughts on coding agents
Denny's Blog
Cover Your Ass – Dylan Castillo
Using a 2 billion local visual language llm coupled with playwright to identify and click on elements in a browser.
The first framework where AI agents perceive, understand, and act on your data — not guess. MVA (Model-View-Agent) architecture with Presenters, cognitive guardrails, and structured perception packages.
The agentic web has a consent problem. Every agent depends on the same unstated assumption: the model knows when it should stop and ask you.
The Absurdity of the term "AI Engineer"
Integrating a third-party LLM SDK does not make you an AI Engineer: a rant on the inflation of job titles in the age of ChatGPT wrappers.
Arunoda Susiripala's personal website.
Building personal software is now Practical - When building is cheap enough, more problems are worth solving
In the US, white-collar work has grown from 17.6% of total employment in 1900 to ~60% in 2002. Presumably, that share has grown even more and other first world countries have seen a similar trajectory.
Leadership musings and hackery from the Perl generation
AI tools change every week. New models, new workflows, new hype. I decided to stop chasing and focus on building instead. Here's why being behind is not a bad thing.
Looking Back On Phabricator For Code Review
In my professional software engineering career, I've used a few different code review tools: * Launchpad ~2012-2014 (Bazaar was great... IYKYK), and also GitHub * 2016 – 2019 Phabricator * 2019 – 2023 GitLab * 2023 – 2025 GitHub * 2025 – 2026 Graphite B…
LLM pretraining on TPU v6e with a $50 budget
Andrej Karpathy has the nanochat project with the description “The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy”. He evolved a model architecture and training setup that reaches the performance of GPT-2 while costing 600 times less than the original OpenAI run from 2019. Th…
Reflections on dwm
All writing on this site is entirely my own. AI is occasionally used for light editorial review.
How I built a persistent personal AI agent in 2000 lines of Go that uses my Claude subscription instead of API keys, runs sandboxed via nono and talks to me on Telegram; Learnings about what seems to matter.
I recently built Delta Neutral, a self-hosted concentrated liquidity hedge rebalancer.
A Poet with No Verse :: Akshay Sasidharan
It’s been a while since my last post. Since then, I left my consulting gig and joined an early-stage startup. I wore more hats than I expected, got to lead and mentor people, and along the way entered my 30s (midlife-crisis / existential-dread era). Just when …