langcontinuation: durable asynchronous LLM workflows
This post introduces the langcontinuation framework, that allows for writing the code for both live and batch processing just once.
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Compaction in `sid`
My coding agent, sid has a compaction strategy I’ve not seen in use elsewhere; I call it, “Ask an Expert!”
Engineering Schizophrenia: The Book
A brief link to a free book about my struggles with schizophrenia.
A Type System for Management
In my book Rusty Engineering Management I meander to a point I make explicitly here: There is a type system for engineering management and all you need to understand it is Rust.
A lisp-backed error crate for rust?
I did something a bit crazy and made a lisp interpreter for error handling.
FORTH? Really!?
In which I argue that left-associative languages might be better for LLMs than other languages.
Comparing Sonnet 4.5 with Haiku 4.5 on the PolicyAI Benchmark
This post compares policyai’s benchmark on Sonnet 4.5 compared to the new Haiku 4.5 model.
I’m schizohprenic and I need help
An article in which I lay it all out and ask the world for help.
Some Code Isn’t Worth Saving
Vibe coding makes software expendable in a Hollywood way.
System Prompts
Your system prompt WILL leak. What are you going to do about it?
HTTP, SMTP, IRC
Large Language Models have internalized HTTP . Maybe all we need to give agents agency is a simpler HTTP protocol.
Vibe Compilers
I make a prediction about the consequences of vibe coding.
Introducing Project Blue
The first quarter of my upcoming book in which I articulate how I think about building systems.
Seventeen
In which we draw comparisons between the Tao Te Ching and senior engineering leadership.
Humanity Hates Intelligence
Humanity hates intelligence. What will happen to ASI ?
Agents in 2025 #0
In this article I begin to explore what matters to agents in 2025.
Infrastructure is like an Ocean
An ocean is the perfect metaphor to understand systems infrastructure.
Away from Consumption
A short conjecture about the end of consumption.
ProtoQL: A Work-in-Progress ORM Bridging Protocol Buffers and Key-Value Stores
ProtoQL is an emerging open-source project aiming to provide a novel way to manage structured data using protocol buffers within a key-value store environment. It seeks to combine the strengths of both worlds, offering the schema definition and data serialization advantages of protocol buffers with the scalability and performance benefits of key-value stores.
guacamole
guacamole provides a linearly-seekable random number generator.
Racing Thoughts
A thought exercise for turning off racing thoughts.
sig-fig histogram
sig-fig histogram provides an exponentially-distributed histogram with bounded error.
A Setsum Manifest
Setsum and mani can be combined together to track the setsum for a rich data structure.
mani
mani provides a text-based write-ahead log.
setsum: a checksum for unordered sets
setsum provides a checksum that operates on unordered sets of byte strings.
Triangular Compaction in lsmtk
Triangular compaction is a new compaction algorithm debuting in lsmtk.
Irons in the Fire
A summary of what I’ve been working on to try and get back to functional.
prototk
prototk is a protocol buffers library for Rust.