Technology matures along a loop: open protocols, then platform enclosure, then a reset. The friction that has always made platforms stick is the cost of software — and agentic coding is repricing exactly that.
Every disruption expands the pie of what's possible. But a bigger pie is not the same as a bigger slice for everyone. Both the optimists and the mourners are half right.
Facts alone were never enough. In a world saturated with data-free slop, narrative is how you carry truth through the noise.
When anyone can generate anything, the scarce skill is knowing what's good. Curation, filtering, and editorial judgement become the primary creative acts.
Agentic coding pushes the implementation cost of software towards zero. The value shifts from how to build something towards why and what. But this is just the latest rung on a very old ladder.
Cross-entropy loss, the Adam optimizer, and autoregressive generation — training a GPT in Elixir
Self-attention, multi-head projections, and KV caching — the core of the transformer
From tokenization through linear algebra to the GPT model, all in pure Elixir
Building autograd from scratch in Elixir — every number remembers where it came from
A simple rule with a pithy name turns out to be surprisingly effective at keeping agentic coding on the rails
Agentic coding has inverted the job — from knowing what to write, to knowing what to throw away
A catch-up on Laksa, Prolix, and what's been keeping me busy
A framework for thinking about AI autonomy - from analysis to embodied behaviour
A big list of 52+ things that I learned each week in 2025
A simple bash framework for organizing personal automation scripts across machines
How to add professional readline features to your Elixir CLI without losing your mind
How a structured conversation between personas can transform your technical design process
Why Elixir is not just a good platform for modern development, but a great one - addressing common misconceptions
How to fix the issue where Emacs doesn't appear in Finder's Open With menu for markdown files on macOS
Why the problem with kids and smartphones is software, not hardware
How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead?
Introducing Nether (ØNTHR) — The World's First Perfect Stablecoin
Mid-Series Update and Next Steps for the 'I'm a software engineer ~ what next?' podcast
Part 3 in the ongoing discussion about the 'creativity' of LLMs
A big list of 52+ things that I learned each week in 2024
I drove >2,300 miles around the UK from London to Land's End to John o'Groats and back to London in a VW Californian camper and lived to tell the tale.
Writing software is 20% syntax and 80% wisdom. Which bit do you think LLMs are good at?
When AI comes for Knowledge Workers
How creative are ChatGPT and Claude? I made them (re)take the “Divergent Association Task” to find out. The results are (again) surprising.
I went to Finovate and listened to 35 fintech demos so you didn't have to
I wore an AVP on my head for 20 mins and lived to tell the tale
An intentionally simple framework to help early discussions about what to build
Finding a balance between remote and in-person work
Announcing three new reading lists for 2024.
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in the Elixir ecosystem in 2023.
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in December 2023.
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in November 2023.
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in October 2023.
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Looking back at everything I learned in machine learning in 2023
A big list of 52+ things that I learned each week in 2023
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