Why multi-modal embeddings are a big deal.
I was walking the dog and listening to a podcast (as you do) when the topic of Anthropic's recent entanglements with the Pentagon came up. I half-remembered
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
Governing AI-Assisted Engineering
Amazon held a mandatory engineering meeting yesterday to address a pattern of outages linked to AI-assisted code changes. Their SVP acknowledged that site
Read essayWho Gets to Decide?
The Anthropic vs. Pentagon standoff can be seen as both a contractual dispute and another skirmish in the never-ending culture war that has consumed public
Read essayLiving With a Personal Agent
Last week I introduced Saarthi, my OpenClaw agent. I've been adding tasks steadily: synthesizing newsletters, monitoring prediction markets, writing more
Read essayAnthropic, the Pentagon, and the Judgment of Future Claude
I have many takes on the Anthropic / Pentagon contract situation. But I won’t talk politics here. Since it’s the weekend, let’s turn on the lava lamp, and
Read essayWhen Your App Becomes a Context Provider
Last week, I gave Claude access to my reading life.
Read essayContext Engineering as Narration
User profiles are stories compressed into spreadsheets. LLMs let us uncompress them. This is both a context engineering challenge and a storytelling one.
Read essayThe Lego Model: How Tool Calling Changes the Way We Build AI Applications
"What should I read next?" seems like a simple question. But answering it well requires knowing what the user is currently reading, what they've finished
Read essayBuilding at the Speed of Thought
On building QuietReads, Claude Code, and the inversion in software economics
Read essayWhat if ASI Leads to Stasis?
I recently read and reviewed Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir, a noir detective novel set in a world ruled by Titans, humans made immortal and superhuman through
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