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Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres
There are books & many articles online, like this one arguing for using Postgres for everything. I thought I’d take a look at one use case - using Postgres instead of Redis for caching. I work with APIs quite a bit, so I’d build a super simple HTTP server that responds with data from that cache. I’d...
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Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground?
Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground?
Over the summer Gabriel Mahler has been conducting research on hedgehog habitat mapping using Agent Based Models (ABMs) and remote sensing. Hedgehogs seem to like brambles and so as part of his work he has produced a bramble m...
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AI isn't replacing radiologists
AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
Works in Progress is becoming a print magazine. Our first print issue, Issue 21, will land in November. If you live in the United State...
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Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code
An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models.
If you’ve worked on legacy systems that were written by other people, perhaps decades ago, you’ll recognise this phenomenon. Before w...
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Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
It feels like it was just a couple days ago that I wrote up "How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025".
At the beginning of that post, I alluded to the fact that my process had evolved a bit since then.
I've spent the past couple of week...
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The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption
I've been using the same notes app for about three weeks now.
This is, by contemporary standards, a committed relationship.
Before that, I was on another platform for two months, which felt like a marriage. The one before that lasted six weeks before the company announced they were "sunsetting" it t...
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Vibe engineering
Vibe engineering
7th October 2025
I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to how the code actually works. This leaves us with a terminology gap: what shoul...
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An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra
An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra
Chapter 1: Row vs column picture
This post assumes you know algebra, but no linear algebra. Lets dive in.
There are two big ideas I want to introduce in the first chapter: Gaussian elimination, (which is not strictly a linear algebra thing, and has been ...
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Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Back in 2009 Tim Berners-Lee drafted a web-specification for "Socially Aware Cloud Storage":
There is an architecture in which a few existing or Web protocols are gathered together with some glue to make a world wide system in which applications (...
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The ChatGPT for music that launched in 1994
Spinning the radio dials like mini roulette wheels was, in 1993, the best way to discover new music. Static, a snatch of a familiar song, a news report, then ah wait that sounds interesting. You’d walk into a record store with that song stuck in your head, and with any luck would walk out after a co...
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MCP in Practice
Written together with Ilan Strauss, Isobel Moure, and Tim O’Reilly as part of the AI Disclosures Project. Originally published on our blog: Asimov’s Addendum.
1. The Rise and Rise of MCP
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released in November 2024 as a way to make tools and platforms model...
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The Demon-Haunted World
I read this book many years ago and it made a big impression on me.
His view is that normal, rational, intelligent people... can have fictional stories in their heads about how things work. It takes energy and focus and research to fix these wrong stories, so often we live with them or don't recogni...
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Why I only use Google sheets
Why I only use Google sheets
To cut things short, always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore reassess what the new requirements are and either try enhance the current solution or find an alternative that better solve th...
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FlywheelAI/excavator-dataset · Datasets at Hugging Face
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how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives
Everyone knows what AWS S3 is, but few comprehend the massive scale it operates at, nor what it took to get there.
In essence ...
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Pairing with Claude Code to Rebuild My Startup’s Website
Pairing with Claude Code to Rebuild My Startup’s Website
Adventures using AI agents, especially Claude Code, and MCP Servers
As mentioned in my most recent post, I’ve been experimenting with AI coding agents and MCP servers to rebuild CodeYam’s website. Version one is already live, with another iter...
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AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger?
The question “Will coding be taken over entirely by AI?” has been asked to death already, and people keep trying to answer it. I’m not sure there’s anything truly new to say, but I want to share my own observations.
The early narrative was that companies would need fewer seniors, and juniors togethe...
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If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
Using AI agents correctly is a process of reviewing code. If you’re good at reviewing code, you’ll be good at using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or the Copilot coding agent.
Why is that? Large language models are good at producing...
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LESSWRONG LW
Shimmering Substance - Jackson Pollock
Think of this post as your field guide to a new way of building software.
Let me take you back to when this all started. Andrej Karpathy tweeted about "vibe-coding"—this idea of letting AI write your code while you just vibe. The developer community had a good ...
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I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story
I'm a solo dev, and I wanted to share a recent experience as a case study on the current state of the App Store and indie development.
A few months ago, I built a simple macOS utility to solve a personal frustration: verifying the actual speed of USB-C cables and devices in the Mac menu bar. It is c...
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