Computer use is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
That's No Warehouse... It's a Space Station
“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. And centralized data architectures lead to a table called customer_revenue_final_v9_USE_THIS_ONE_SERIOUSLY.” — Yoda, leading a postmortem In your company there is likely a data warehouse or …
You Don’t Review Your Compiler Output
Someone on LinkedIn posted that every line of AI-generated code should be reviewed with the same rigor you’d apply to a junior developer’s pull request. The reply that stopped the threa…
Posted on February 27, 2026 by Brandon Wilson
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (カエルの為(ため)に鐘(かね)は鳴(な)る) is a Japanese-only Game Boy title published in 1992 by Nintendo and developed by Intelligent Systems. The title’s official English translati...
How to use the new Prompt API in Google Chrome
Building a MongoDB GUI Custom Table System: A 9 Month Journey
Learn how we built a high-performance MongoDB table view that handles nested, irregular documents at 60fps, even with 100k rows and 1000 columns.
On the Economics of Truth
The cost of fabrication has collapsed. The cost of verification has not. This essay traces the triple asymmetry degrading shared reality and what it means for every collective response we need.
Since the last 2 months I had to change my environment in which I used to do my long hours of deep work. One of the things that was part of the change was a standing desk. Actually it was not a desk per se but just a platform on top of which I can keep my lapt…
Human effort produces an output as its product and expertise as its byproduct. Bad bosses don't know how lucky they are.
Yesterday Ruby Native launched. Today the first customer app went live. And the developer never opened Xcode.
A Guide of Poor Decision Practices in Management for Tech Leaders and Founders • placementist
Best practices, past success and gut instinct: the three management beliefs costing startups the most and how to audit them.
A Namecheap bug got my domain suspended
My primary domain (captnemo.in, where you’re reading this) was suspended by my registry (.in) for 3 hours last night (4th May 2026).
A plain-text, git-tracked worklog that keeps multiple jobs and side projects in sync without any task-management tooling.
The web home of Pocket, Mozilla's article-discovery service. 2M+ daily page views at peak. Co-architected across six years, two full rewrites.
Parallel agents on separate worktrees need a local system to land changes cleanly without conflicts or regressions.
SaaS isn't dying but per-seat pricing, UX polish, and DAU metrics are. Here's what changes when agents become your product's primary user.
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Don’t let your Mac’s storage fill up!
Macs don’t do well when they start to approach full storage. The operating system doesn’t provide enough safeguards and backoff options to help you cope with what can become a disaster,…
Why engineering teams turn one trusted person into a decision bottleneck. How informal authority, hidden context, and single points of failure slow delivery
Complete Guide: How to Integrate Beehiiv with Hugo via Cloudflare Workers
Learn how to integrate a custom Beehiiv form into a Hugo website on GitHub Pages, using Cloudflare Workers and monitoring via PostHog.
If everything is a superfood, then nothing is.
Claude Code gives me a constant stream of dopamine hits but also FOMO, guilt, and anxiety.
Animal Forest (“Dōbutsu no Mori” or “どうぶつの森”) was released in Japan for the Nintendo 64 on April 14th, 2001: exactly 25 years ago today! To celebrate this beloved franchise I have created calendar...
When Knowledge Becomes Control
Instructions and governance are different things. I ran 265 experiments to find the boundary.
How I run OpenAI Symphony 24/7 on Zo Computer with Linear, project skills, and a token usage dashboard.
Am I an LLM?
As I keep interacting with LLMs and learn how they work, I sometimes pause and wonder if there's a chance that I can be some sort of LLM.
Coding agents write impressive first drafts. But under the surface, corners are cut, details are missing, and technical debt accumulates with every change. The problem is not the model. It is that what we ask it to do is fundamentally under-specified.
We finally know why deep learning works.
May 04, 2026 21:17 / ai thoughts / 1 comments
A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures - The Old New Thing
I want to speak to your manager.
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
By Susam Pal on 12 Jan 2026
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
Apple is letting users build their own Wallet passes in iOS 27. After 14 years of PassKit, the supply-side problem is finally being solved from the demand side.
AI didn't delete your database, you did
Last week, a tweet went viral showing a guy claiming that a Cursor/Claude agent deleted his company's production database. We watched from the sidelines as he tried to get a confession from the agent:
I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...
GitHub - angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
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Agent Skills
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...
Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quot…
docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2
That means targeting mechanisms engineered to rewire the brain’s reward system, writes Marie Potel-Saville
With modern CPUs, avoiding branch mispredictions is a key method for speeding up programs. One of the most effective ways to reduce mispredictions is to simply avoid branches.
How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.