The plain-English prompt that makes prototypes effortless turns out to be a poor way to specify how a system should behave, and the bill arrives slowly, disguised as ordinary progress, until the application can barely move.
Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent.
Why I like the word clanker and why machines are not people.
Learnings from post-AI Open Source and how we’re approaching this so far.
8 Tips for Writing Agent Skills. Know What a Skill Is, Nail the Description, Write Instructions, Keep It Lean, Set the Right Level of Freedom, Don't Skip Negative Cases, Test It Before You Ship It, Know When to Retire a Skill.
One impressive step on the curve
Moving from clones to reimaginings.
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
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Intelligence is not elemental. Neither is artificial intelligence. Both are complex compounds composed of more primitive cognitive elements, some of which we are only now discovering. We don’t yet have a periodic table of cognition (see my post The Periodic … Continue reading →
> The most disciplined form of TDD is test-first development. You write the automated tests first, confirm that they fail, then iterate on the implementation until the tests pass. > > This turns out t...
It's not just chatbots anymore
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests.
AI speeds up writing code, but accountability and review capacity still impose hard limits.
What programming languages would agents want to program in?
A relative time formatting library, with no code.
> Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in codin...
Here's a new hosted sandbox product from the Deno team. It's actually unrelated to Deno itself - this is part of their Deno Deploy SaaS platform. As such, you don't …
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