By Jay Lund . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect many economic and natural resource sectors as these new technologies develop and mature. We are in the early years of this process. Like most new things, AI has become an object of small and great hope…
Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node Raspberry Pi CM5 cluster board that solves two pain points I had with the older Super6C.
I was testing this board around the same time I helped kick off the SBCC 202…
A couple of days ago, exe.dev raised a lot of money1. I decided to poke around with it a little, and signed up. Their trial is 7 days long, so despite having no actual plans, I just started doing stuff. In doing so, I noticed a few interesting things that I th…
Last week at Bug Bash 2026,
I had a bunch of interesting discussions about testing non-web
interfaces with Bombadil, our new
property-based testing framework for user interfaces. One direction that
I already wanted to explore is terminal user interfaces (TUIs)…
I was planning to write about my local development setup at my leisure. Moving this forward as my post on LinkedIn the other day about cancelling my Claude Max $100 plan and going local raised a lot more interest and questions than I expected. This post attemp…
I write a lot of code. Or rather, I used to write a lot of code. After Claude Opus ~4.5, it's now more accurate to say that I review and design a lot of code.
Our belief in Scaling Laws has not only driven continuous breakthroughs in model parameters and data scale, but has also pushed infrastructure engineering toward its limits. This process inevitably comes with growing pains, which we refer to as Scaling Pain.
I finished reading On the Edge last week, and it was bad. Not that I don't respect Nate Silver. I respect him a lot. So when his seminal text on gambling and risk taking was a rambling mess, I was suprised and disappointed. Nevertheless, a completionist at hea…
While comparing medium, high, and extra-high reasoning modes on the same task, I uncovered consistent authorship and presentation-order effects in GPT-5.5’s evaluations.
California’s total fertility rate dropped from 17th to 43rd in the country since 2008. It is easy to see: home prices predict birth rates with striking accuracy — and Prop 13 is what made California’s housing costs a political choice, not just a market outcome…
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, or trad coding as Twitter likes to call i…