P(doom) đź”—
This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral. In particular one where an employee put his personal probability of that happening [...]
Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
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Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? đź”—
I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more e [...]
Latent Powers đź”—
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmwar [...]
Anger, Anxiety and Agency đź”—
Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but bei [...]
Fast and Hard Code đź”—
One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familia [...]
What Is Reasoning đź”—
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tric [...]
Codeberg Divides đź”—
Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Considering I want GitHub to get some competitio [...]
The Tower Keeps Rising đź”—
I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an [...]
Better Models: Worse Tools đź”—
A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit too [...]
The Coming Loop đź”—
I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the [...]