10 October 2026

38 links · Saturday

One vector is too few. One per token is too many.

Introducing BreadBowl-Embed, a new late-interaction architecture for embeddings: 16 routing–value slots per passage, so the same index can retrieve and rerank, with no cross-encoder and no second pass over the text.

Bag of Decisions Reranker

Let an LLM generate the questions to ask Jev for a given query. See how well that works as a reranker.

unintentional type theory in nLab

In contrast to intensional type theory, which is a type theory containing an identity type x=yx=y whose elements are identifications of xx and yy, unintentional type theory has a mistaken identity type x≈?yx \overset{?}{\approx} y whose elements are inadverten…

We Should Still Send Home Assignments in Engineering Interviews

I’ve been hiring software engineers for the last 8 years. I’ve reviewed hundreds of home assignments as part of hiring process. In the recently introduced AI era, it is more and more believed that hiring assignments are useless because candidate can just feed …

Don't make me use your harness

I cancelled my Claude subscription today because I can't use my purchased tokens in my harness of choice. I also couldn't use them with an LLM proxy server, either. Sure, I can do some hacky things to make it work, but it's not supported and I risk

Custom Agents are Antipatterns

In the last few years I've seen people struggling to offer some value through the use of AI Agents. Across examples I noticed a common shape in them, a...

Integrating Decision Models into Agent Harnesses

Two ways to put Jev inside an agent harness: checking step completion and making bounded business decisions. Experiments with Proceda cut main-LLM calls by almost a third.

You're Not Crazy, They Never Sent FIN

A load balancer forgets an idle connection, a connection pool remembers it, and the first request after a quiet stretch gets a TCP reset the client logs as a 502 from a service that never saw it. AWS documents the behavior at 350 seconds, without a FIN. We rep…

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MCP server rules: Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, VS Code and more

The checkable rules each AI host applies to an MCP server, from tool-name length to mandatory annotations and timeouts, where they conflict, and which tools validate against them. As of 1 October 2026.

The Keynote I Thought I Was Going to Give

[6 min read] A couple of weeks ago, I gave my keynote, “The Most Valuable Engineer Isn’t Shipping Features,” at Rails World 2026 in Austin, Texas. If you ...

Lobbying is corruption

On lobbying, corruption, and the same animal under two names

A quote from The New York Times

Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. …

TypeSafe A raises Series AI - TypeSafe AI Blog

TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.