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Clone Is the New Bottleneck for Agents
Agents increasingly work in ephemeral sandboxes. But they can't start working until the code is there.
Jun 12
Too Many Homers
Ὅμηρον ἐξ Ὁμήρου σαφηνίζειν.
Jun 10

May 2026

Where Should Agent-Generated Code Live?
Every company is going to have agents.
May 30
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mini-App Specs
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mini-App Specs
May 10

April 2026

The Spec Layer
Why Spec-Driven Development (SDD) Works
Apr 1

August 2025

Using Claude Code from Anywhere
I've been using multiple instances of Claude Code and Codex CLI almost every day.
Aug 30, 2025

December 2023

Pseudonyms in American History
Debates around the ratification of the Constitution and the early formation of the United States happened through pseudonymous authors.
Dec 5, 2023
Fairchildren
In 1956, William Shockley, Stanford professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on semiconductors, recruited a team of young Ph.D.
Dec 4, 2023
ChatGPT After One Year
ChatGPT was released on November 30th 2022.
Dec 3, 2023
McNamara Fallacy
The McNamara Fallacy is named after Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.
Dec 2, 2023
Data Quality in LLMs
Good data is the difference between Mistral’s LLMs and Llama, which share similar architectures but different datasets.
Dec 1, 2023

November 2023

Discord and AI GTM
Midjourney is the largest discord server, with 16.5 million total users.
Nov 30, 2023
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