29 August 2026

21 links · Saturday

Tiny World Model

Overview # After coming across Ha & Schmidhuber’s 2018 paper World Models earlier this year, I have been working on building a “tiny world model” on a clone of Chrome’s Dino game. The final model is small: a variational autoencoder (VAE), a recurrent world mod…

NO THANK YOU.

A terrible email to receive, and likely the first of many.

Telling an agent to be honest isn't enough

A memory rule wasn't enough to stop Claude Opus 5 from turning quietly agreeable in deep sessions. Notes on the four-leg doctrine I put in place instead, and a July paper that reframes what I built.

LSPs for LLMs

Back in the dark ages of typing code into editors we were aided by squigglies under broken code, click-to-definitions links, and so on. That was powered by language servers and type checkers. Sever…

Primer: Worktrees + Coding Agents

Coding agents and (Git) worktrees seem like a match made in heaven. However, there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. Over the last 12 months, I have learnt way too much about Git worktrees, and I think now is a good time to lay it all

Save Yourself From Any Drama By Not Commenting

I do not like to engage any form of gossips. I find it unproductive use of my time. If I have the chance, I rather use the time to read something or built so...

The Ultimate Dream

Coding is not solved. What problem solving actually is, why participation beats winning, and why writing specs is the ultimate accountability.

To human is to explore

Using AI to build is cool until you shut your brain off and let it decide what the product should be.

Subagents and the Art of Spending More

I had a random discussion in my Telegram group about AI. I noticed that some of them had really high token usage and very long sessions. After some more discussion, I realised that they had fairly complex setups, with lots of coordination between their agents.…

Just Ship | 0sql

Try to ship as often as possible.