Pushing 4.7M Commits an Hour
**The winning software teams will throw away orders of magnitude more code than they merge.** I ran a benchmark against the custom git server I’m building, -
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The Spec Layer
An AI agent implements a feature. The code compiles. The tests pass. It still misses the point. The wrong kind of correct. Most of our software tooling is opt
Using Claude Code from Anywhere
I've been using multiple instances of Claude Code and Codex CLI almost every day. But I got frustrated enough to build something that solidifies my workflow. Be
Pseudonyms in American History
Debates around the ratification of the Constitution and the early formation of the United States happened through pseudonymous authors. They often used names bo
Fairchildren
In 1956, William Shockley, Stanford professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on semiconductors, recruited a team of young Ph.D. graduates
ChatGPT After One Year
ChatGPT was released on November 30th 2022. What has changed since then? - **Hundreds of open-source models.** Varying sized models from small to very large. M
McNamara Fallacy
The McNamara Fallacy is named after Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. The fallacy describes making decisions using only quant
Data Quality in LLMs
Good data is the difference between Mistral’s LLMs and Llama, which share similar architectures but different datasets. To train LLMs, you need data that is:
Discord and AI GTM
Midjourney is the largest discord server, with 16.5 million total users. It accounts for 13% of total Discord invites. Midjourney launched in March 2022 and doe
Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment (Munger)
In 1995, Charlie Munger gave a speech at Harvard on *[The Psychology of Human Misjudgment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY)**.* It was filled with t