I love LLMs, I hate hype
I think from this blog you may misunderestimate how absolutely giddy I am about AI. I did hacking from 2007-2014, after that my whole career has been devoted to AI. I love the progress. I’m so excited for the new LLMs, self driving cars, video generation models, and coding agents. I set up a Linux […]
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
We put Claude Code and OpenCode on the same model, the same machine, and the same tasks, then examined everything sent and received. Claude Code is far hungrier: When we asked both harnesses for a one-line reply, Claude Code used roughly 33,000 tokens of system prompt, tool schemas, and injected scaffolding before the prompt even […]
Against Usefulness
Every useful company stands on rails that were once somebody’s stubbornly useless research. I invest in useful for a living. This essay is about the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on. At Motive Force I back […]
Website is served from a 200KB binary
No libc. No VM. No runtime. The numbers below are read out of the process that is answering you right now — not written into a template by hand. Reload it. The pid changes: there are several worker processes, and the kernel hands the connection to whichever one is free. ”High-water” is the honest word: […]
Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go
Shirei is a Cross-Platform GUI framework for Go. You get to write the UI using Go, not HTML and Javascript. Truely cross-platform: the same code base produces identical looking programs for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. Also happens to be the easiest way to produce a self-contained GUI program for Linux that does not require any […]
Automation Without Understanding
Abstract:Two developments are unfolding at once: artificial intelligence systems have begun to produce genuine research-level mathematics, and the United States is weakening the pipeline that produces humans capable of understanding what such systems are doing. This essay argues that, taken together, these developments amount to a strategic error. Mathematical capacity, which is the trained ability […]
Why study Diophantine equations?
Why study Diophantine equations? ← back February 10, 2026 One of the central goals of number theory is to find integer solutions to polynomial equations — this is called the study of Diophantine equations. This might seem a strange goal, so let’s take a step back and ask what the point of mathematics is. The […]
How to Read More Books
I’ve read roughly a book a week for a few years, and I can tell you it’s doable. I didn’t always read this much. When I started, I read fewer than ten volumes per year, but making it a goal made me switch gears and achieve what I once thought was impossible. I want to […]
The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion
Vehicle transportation underpins much of modern life, enabling the movement of goods and people, productivity, and economic growth. However, the costs are high: drivers spend an average of 2.6 years of their life on the road, and private cars and vans now account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions. Hence, the efficient use of […]
Don’t You Mean Extinct?
Don’t you mean extinct? Jul 10, 2026 Don’t you mean extinct? In 1993, Jurassic Park came out and revolutionized the use of CGI in films[1]. To the public the experience was magic. But for some of the people in the movie industry, it was a rude awakening. Director Steven Spielberg had hired stop-motion master[2] Phil […]