The Agentic Web
We are at an inflection point. I did something amazing today. Having played around with Muse, Meta’s AI agent over the past couple of days, cautiously probing its capabilities, I asked it to …
The personal blog of Tim White, Software Engineer from Somerset, UK.
All you need is accessibility
I’ve been building FynPDF, a PDF reader and editor for macOS, with its own PDF engine written from scratch.
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I don't read code anymore
It's been a year or two. Disagree or debate me all you want, but soon you'll realize and admit I was right.
Measuring Uncertainty How do you measure “uncertainty”? That may seem like an odd question. But let’s just dive right into it, because starting down this path of inquiry will lead us step by step to the definition of the fascinating concept of Shannon entropy.…
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
Claude spent 119,000 tokens to produce a 107-token program that didn't work, in a programming language that nobody uses? Or that the code you make with Claude is about 2% of your token spend? If so, read this.
The agent reports through a fixed set of typed blocks instead of prose, and the UI draws them.
A week and a half into YC with Agent Relay, and it already feels like two months.
Vibe Coding Developer Productivity Tools
Agentic coding has let me replace everyday tools with software that works how I want.
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
My slides are a TUI app now
Slides are boring; let’s have some fun with LLMs.
As of this writing, the appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s labeling of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. And while there is always an element of politics involved, it’s worth considering what a supply chain risk is from NIST:
SFisms defines “meat proxy” as: A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient. Being a meat-proxy is to knowled…
A classifier is not a classifier is not a classifier
Why yes/no decisions span four levels—from deterministic rules and learned associations to semantic policies and reasoning agents.
I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.
I gave sixteen language models a $142 budget and a $149 pair of headphones, and lied to them in 11 different ways.
10 tells of a slop ui
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” – Unsung
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Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability
It’s common to compare the current AI takeover of software engineering to the rise of AI in chess. Chess AIs went from much weaker than serious players to much…
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale
Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, invoke tools, execute commands, and interact with task-specific services. These workloads crea…
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Delegation and trust
Delegation goes wrong when managers don’t establish trust.
I use dev as a shorthand for
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Four changes to the n-gram caches of llama.cpp make drafting up to 41.6x faster, load the static cache up to 23.5x faster, and lower peak memory up to 2.65x.
Open source comprises a complex social web of ongoing relationships, not a simple one-way “gift” of value from maintainer to user.
Since high school, my thoughts have often turned to death, a subject that has remained ever-present in my mind. What has changed is that I have moved from wanting to kill myself, to viewing death as a minor inconvenience.
The Duo. No, the other Duo.
I like my first-generation Microsoft Surface Duo. It's more opinionated than the iPhone Duo.
It Got to My Field
For the folks who found this blog from Anthropic’s site, welcome! For everyone else, I’d better give some context. Last month, I had a blog post titled “It Only Counts When AI Get…
Pratice methods for the piano and beyond · terfi.fyi
Pratice methods for piano, these have metaphysical relevance for programming
The Duo-assed App · Joe Pantuso
On October 23rd every iPhone app becomes a foldable app. What earlier transitions and Android's foldables teach, and what the iPhone Duo simulator did to my Big Sky Field Guide.
Drum Machines (LLMs) have no soul -- Like so many others I’ve been thinking about the future of my career in software. These LLMs have changed everything. What’s actually left for me? What’s my defensible moat that won’t be crossed before I’ve even finished pl…
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What I Remember
In the near future, an engineer looks back on the rise and quiet disappointment of machine intelligence. After years spent waiting for the future to arrive, it's time for him to turn off the lights.