LLMs Have No Memory of Time
Ask Claude what day it is and it’ll tell you. Ask it whether the thing it read five minutes ago is newer than the thing it read an hour ago, and it has no id...
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Congratulations, You’ve Been Promoted to CEO
Congratulations. You’re the CEO of a brand new organization. Unfortunately there’s no pay bump and no investors. Your org has no humans in it except you. You...
Giving Claude Eyes, Ears, and a Voice
Claude can read code, write essays, debug distributed systems. But it can’t hear you talk. It can’t look around the room. It can’t tell you the weather witho...
AI-Assisted Hobbies
Saturday project day. Speech recognition, computer vision, game server automation, and planning a robotic camera arm. All with AI assistance.
Claude Is Your User
What happens when the entire SDLC runs at conversation speed?
Show, Don’t Tell: When AI Refuses Your Architecture
I spent an hour arguing with Claude about how to execute modules on remote hosts. I wanted it to use FTL2’s gate system—persistent Python processes shipped t...
FTL2: Giving AI Hands
We’re almost there with AI. Claude can understand what you want to build, design architectures, write code, debug problems, and explain complex systems. But ...
Shared Understanding: When AI Becomes Your Research Partner
You know that feeling after a really productive meeting? Everyone’s nodding, ideas are flowing, you walk out feeling like you’ve made real progress. Then two...
How does Terraform work?
Terraform is an automation tool that excels at provisioning infrastructure. How do Terraform providers work? Let’s take a close look at the example hashicup...
Faster than light
Building on the principles discussed in my previous post, post, and post I started the Faster-than-light project. The goals of this project are to explore ...
Smolagents are amazing
Smolagents is one of those projects that will change the industry. It was released at just the right time to build upon the recent open-source advances in re...
Remote Ansible Modules Continued
This post answers the question from the last post:
Remote Ansible Modules
In this post I’ll answer the questions that arose from the last post: