Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.

LLM models are plateauing, but true AGI isn't about scaling the next breakthrough model—it's about engineering the right context, memory, and workflow systems. AGI is fundamentally a systems engineering problem, not a model training problem.

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions.
In a previous article of this series I talked about how we must remain ever vigilant against what is making it into our code. I talked about the need to always analyze the cost of everything we are agreeing…

It's not that hard to build a coding agent. 300 lines of code running in a loop with LLM tokens. You just keep throwing tokens at the loop, and then you've got yourself an agent.

Adding a pre-spin affects shuttlecock’s oscillating behavior, depending on direction of rotation.

Random functions in programming languages are amazing.

Port Kill helps you find and free ports and caches blocking your dev work. - treadiehq/port-kill

My life is not a math Olympiad

When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can…

In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast!
Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity.
Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions…

One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.

The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.

Rather suddenly, there’s been a vibe shift around artificial intelligence, the tech that’s hypnotized Wall Street and inspired cultish devotion across Silicon Valley over the past three years.

We’ve been doing some cleaning and purging here at Chez Lefebvre and stumbled across a relic.

Celebrities like Taylor Swift have long used a little-known Federal Aviation Administration program to shield their private jets’ flight records from public view. Now ICE is using the program to hide information about its deportation flights.