Will AI take us towards refinement of the self?
In Would You Rather Have Married Young?, Lillian Fishman writes about the "fundamental ethos that had long governed the young secular woman" in the last 50
17 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Half AI, half random curiosities
I rarely look at the search analytics for my blog, but today I did. I am really amused by the most common search queries that bring people to
11 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Vibe-code with stable infrastructure
Vibe-coding produces close-to-unmaintainable code right now. But it is an acceptable trade-off in places where it produces decent results and maintainability matters less -- for
10 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Negotiating against an LLM
Writing this post I got heavy AI assistance, starting off with my raw notes of the competition. I know it's not up to my usual quality
2 Mar 2025 · 11 min read
The GPU export limit might start to matter
White House's new chip rules seem to not have huge impact right now, in the "tier 2" countries like Estonia. It is unlikely we
20 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Good LLM devtools are also good human devtools
What does a well designed developer tool (programming language, library, API, CLI utility) look like -- for an LLM? The more we write code with Copilot and Cursor and
11 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
LLMs highlight lack of progress in real world
With LLMs now multimodal and extremely cheap, they can do much of what a human can, when limited to only the virtual. This rapid progress in the world
11 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Creating single-file apps with LLMs
To prototype a mobile-optimized writing app I used LLMs as code generators. The idea isn't new but I got inspiration from reading Simon Willison'
29 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Writing on mobile is different
Whenever I write here, I do it on my laptop, almost never on the phone. I do have a Bluetooth keyboard that connects to my phone, but it&
29 Dec 2024 · 1 min read
DIY parametric wall art: plans to production
Watching Youtube woodworking videos is my guilty pleasure. But until now, I'd had little opportunity to make something myself: no space for a workshop in my
3 Aug 2024 · 4 min read