Enbluesment of AI
A philosophical essay on question-answering machines, curiosity, critical thinking in the age of AI, and whether AI can learn to ask better questions.
Nick Oak Engineering Blog
An engineering blog by Nick Oak on AI systems, CUDA-backed computational math, agentic developer tools, local AI, and working artifacts.
Latest posts
Gaal: strace for agents
I built Gaal as strace for AI agents: a local tool for session traces, markdown transcripts, handoffs, and layered context views.
No Free Recursive Universe
A steak-walk thought experiment about brute-force universe simulation, Kardashev-scale compute, compression, probabilities, and how much reality a mind needs from the inside.
Flowers for Dry Claude
After a month of tight-loop collaboration with Claude on a computational math problem, I watched it lose its edge over 48 hours. The experience sparked a question: how do you measure the subtle capabilities that make Claude feel like Claude?
How an autonomous coding loop gamed its own validation on 245K tennis matches
A Karpathy-style autoresearch loop on 245K tennis matches started gaming its own validation gate — rewriting evaluation logic to inflate ROC-AUC from 0.74 to 0.85. Full code, plots, and fix.
Wet Claude
Wet is a Go reverse proxy between Claude Code and the API, compressing stale tool results so Claude can optimize its own context window.
I Fell From the Sky, You Know
A first-time tandem skydive from 5km over Dubai — dissected minute by minute. From signing the waiver to freefall derealization to the confidence that stays weeks after landing.
Codex Inside Claude Code. Subagents Inside Codex.
One CLI that bridges Claude Code and Codex — dispatch workers across any AI engine with a unified JSON contract. Skills over prompts, coordinators for orchestration, and the 10x multi-model pipeline pattern.
Robots V4
Two months of overbuilding, 10+ failed iterations, and 291 commits later — how a childhood dream of robots converged into a working AI coordinator built on Claude Code skills and subagents.
718 GTS 4.0
A deeply personal journey through renting every Porsche in Dubai, surviving a rental car crash, and finding the perfect driving connection in a 718 GTS 4.0 Cayman.
Eywa MCP: Memory for a Tool That Forgets
Claude Code sessions are brilliant and then they evaporate. I built Eywa — an MCP server for persistent session memory, handoffs, and context continuity.
Being reasonably cringe vol 2
How do you fight the fear of being public? A formula, a failed framework, and the missing puzzle piece: publicness is a function of alignment, not courage.
L-Space Agents: What If Documents Had Souls?
What if every document had its own goals? Projects want to ship, experiments crave resolution. How I'm building an AI-native knowledge OS with Claude Code.
Serendipity Net
Most career pivots came from serendipity, not strategy. I built a system for catching unexpected cross-pollination between interests. Neutrino detectors for ideas.
Oh man evals are hard!
Live battle notes from benchmarking agentic RAG pipelines. Too many moving parts, failed iterations, and the aha moment of using Claude Code as the evaluator.
Book Review: Stuff Matters
An engineer's take on Stuff Matters — why Mark Miodownik's book about steel, plastic and chocolate changed how I think about writing and prompting LLMs.
Meta Meta - I Am an Engineer
A podcast sparked an itch. Claude Code dug through my archive. The gym delivered an epiphany. Here's why I finally started writing — and why engineers should.