Hybrid Reasoning Agents
How can we build an agent that thinks beyond human language, yet still acts through it in the external environment? Modern LLM agents still reason and interact through text, while latent reasoning offers an efficient internal medium but lacks native tool acces…
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The hardest part about going to Disney World is waiting in lines, especially when you're under ten years old and each minute feels like forever. When I was at Disney World recently, I saw lots of parents passing the time with their kids by playing…
I think the title captures the idea fully but I'll dig into it because this ain't Twitter. You're working an idea, a piece of code, or a multibillion a year SaaS app which is probably saving the world. Maybe you're automating the cloning process of grabbing
Recently, while troubleshooting a PATH issue, I noticed an entry for /pkg/env/global/bin. At first, I worried that something had gone horribly wrong. Turns out, this is part of macOS 27.0… though no one is sure what it’s for yet.
From ‘I want my own harness’ to corporate sponsorship — Dirac
Corporate sponsorship for Dirac, and the journey from building a personal coding harness to a Delaware C Corp.
My honest take on the agentic testing experiment by Dan Luu
Oct 17, 2026 · Ben Calderon
Men in tech #YesAllMen
“Fuck you you fucking whore. Fuck you”. A text I received from a colleague I was told was “too valuable to reprimand". I'm so tired of ...
SPA vs. Hypermedia: A Collaborative Kanban Board Measured Against PLANKA
We built a Kanban board on which several people drag cards at the same time, rendered entirely on the server, and measured it against PLANKA on a slowed phone.
What requirements don't you have?
When designing software, the requirements you don’t have are as important as the requirements you do. Identifying what you can compromise on — what can be slow…
How do you get what you want in life?
A meditation on how knowledge tools evolved from stone tools to agentic AI, told through the lens of woodworking.
What an adult ADHD diagnosis taught me
For most of my life I called it laziness. A late ADHD diagnosis didn't fix my brain, but it changed how I talk to myself on bad days.
Clang's funders have changed since 2010: Apple and Google, which wrote most of it until the mid-2010s, now write a small share, and GPU and accelerator vendors, Red Hat, and new sponsors of C++ conformance work write more. This post counts commits, pull-reques…
Why simple ideas go untested: we all follow the same “hot path” and assume someone else already checked the obvious.
Debug plugin for LLM providing an echo model
The 256 numbers in the key schedule of Ron Rivest’s RC2 cipher were said to come from π, but the method was never published. A card shuffle that uses π’s digits as dice reproduces it exactly.
An open letter by Kenny Slimber.
Why the last thing you should spend time on is your own software factory.