I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October …

I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema do…

I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn.
Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements.…

Is Cook cooked?

Scientific Reports - Abstract visual reasoning based on algebraic methods

BYD's megawatt charging adds 250 miles in just 5 minutes. Is this the end of charging anxiety for EV owners?

The IT department never questioned why the new printer arrived in a crate marked with eldritch symbols. They were just happy to finally have a replacement for the ancient LaserJet that had been serving the accounting floor since time immemorial.

Sarah from…

Asking rents fell Y/Y in May in a majority of major U.S. metro areas -- the most in two years -- as demand struggled to keep up with swelling supply.

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

A detective story with a silly ending

The promise of AI-powered calorie counting is efficiency—snap and go, no manual entry required. But my experience revealed a different reality. I spent considerable time correcting ingredient identifications, adjusting portion sizes, and second-guessing the…

Still gliding above the town on an overhead track 125 years after it was built, the charming Schwebebahn in Wuppertal has lost none of its magic

(to JS programmers: not that kind)

Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.