I speak to Claude more than everyone in my life combined
Forcing Claude to chat to me nice with a new skill, the whip.
Ossama Chaib
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Urfa ciğer şiş and meta recipe writing
I'm writing recipes now..
Agents failed to dethrone Google Search
Turns out moats are eternal, especially $200bn/year moats.
clawd penguin: a virtual hangout for when claude goes down
A liminal space for when Claude goes down (too damn often).
aiscii: Natural Language ASCII animations
Generating live ASCII animations from natural language: some things I found, some things I learnt, sharing.
Do Androids Dream of Eclectic Sheep?
The most expensive dice in history and they won't let us roll them.
Figuring out Claude Code's new /btw command
How does Claude Code's new /btw command work, figuring it out from the minified source.
Peek: Write once for every reader
A little component that helps with frictionless reading + writing for multiple audiences and inclusivity.
Betrayed by my own blog
Betrayed by my own blog, interviewed by hyenas.
Having Fun Being Broke!
The fun of optimising projects/deployments/code to just about squeeze in under the generous limits of free hosting/deployment/cloud.
Demis Hassabis should be knighted
No glaze but this is a well-deserved glaze post
I miss the old Claude
The surfacing of a worryingly parasocial relationship between man and AI.
tropes.fyi: Name and shame AI writing
AI writing bad. Human writing good. But AI coding good. And human coding also good.
NYC is MID
Observations after one Week in New York City.
AI flattened the engineering ladder
How agentic development compressed the SWE hierarchy overnight
Scaling Background Tasks
Small small scaling, no big jump. Incremental.
The A in AGI stands for Ads
Had to crunch the ad revenue projection numbers for OpenAI real quick, had enough of the fearmongering and nonsense takes. AGI... now funded by 5x60 second unskippable ads!
Big Tech's Ugly Duckling: An Engineer's Bet on Snapchat
Analysing Evan's memo, 344 research papers and the AI market to figure out if Snap is underpriced or under the mud.
The Silence of the LLaMbs
Why won't LLMs shut up? Knee deep in the mechanisms, experimenting, tinkering, understanding why my previous hypothesis did not hold.
Why LLMs Can't Shut Up
Speculating, hypothecating, contemplating the mechanisms that make it impossible for GPT to stay silent, even when explicitly told to shut up.
Double: Claude Code Memory Without MCPs and DBs
Forget MCPs: Giving Claude Code persistent memory using markdown files, git and three delightful commands.
Nvidia Groq Update: Everyone Gets Rich, Patent Warfare Begins
New details on the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal: I was wrong about employees getting screwed, but the real story is worse for GroqCloud
Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole
The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more
Indexing: From Google to Shazam to AI Agents
Exploring different indexing case studies.
blog meet rlog: A frictionless reading log for your blog
Introducing rlog, a frictionless, local‑first reading log that lives on your blog and helps you track, share, and reuse what you read.
When NOT to use Pydantic
A dive into Pydantic performance and when to pick a different option.
FDEs were why I invested in Palantir in 2022 (and sold it all in 2024)
Why the hell is PLTR at $420bn market cap? Does their engineering culture have anything to do with it?
eBay - Short the User Experience, Long the Stock?
eBay is posting record quarters while systematically destroying user engagement. The platform is dying from the inside while looking healthy on a spreadsheet. Here's the long-dated short thesis.
Crashing an AI Promo Event
What to ask before buying into an AI agent platform
A Best Practices Checklist for Myself and My Agents
Development best practices across Python, frontend, infrastructure, security, and databases