If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
It can’t be seen or touched, but it’s shaking up markets and attracting investment. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the object of desire for Big Tech, which is pouring astronomical sums into its development, fueled by record profits. The other side of this frenzy is workforce reductions, with automation as the backdrop, announced by multinationals […]
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
We spent fifteen years watching software eat the world. Entire industries got swallowed by software – retail, media, finance – you name it, there has been incredible disruption over the past couple of decades with a proliferation of SaaS tooling. This has led to a huge swath of SaaS companies – valued, collectively, in the […]
History of Declarative Programming
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Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy?
14th of December, 2025 The Chomsky hierarchy is a way to classify text-generating algorithms (formally called languages) by how expressive they are. Since generative pretrained transformers, GPTs, are getting quite a bit of attention these days, one might wonder where in the hierarchy they fall. To give a classic example of one category in the […]
Anthropic Outage for Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4/4.5 across all services
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2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon’s footsteps, two student projects independently use ‘collaborative filtering’ to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces. By Richard MacManus | November 11, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 2002, Season 4 Last.fm circa 2003; via Last.fm Flickr account. What we now know as the “social web” — or Web […]
The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)
by Richard P. Feynman “The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America” is a transcript of the keynote speech given by Richard Feynman at the First Inter‑American Conference on Physics Education in Rio de Janeiro in June 1963. Dr. Feynman is Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. The problem […]
JSDoc is TypeScript
JSDoc *is* TypeScript | culi.bear.blog Home Blog 29 Nov, 2025 In May of 2023 an internal refactoring PR from the Svelte repo made it to the front page of the Hacker News forums. The (superficially) controversial PR seemingly vindicated TypeScript skeptics/luddites (which at the time included figures like Dan Abramov of the React team). The […]
Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work? (2022)
In 1927, Samuel Orton, a neuropsychiatrist, observed that many of his young patients with reading difficulties reversed similar letters, confusing d for b, for example. Concluding that the condition was caused by “directional confusion,” he coined the term strephosymbolia, meaning “twisted symbol.” The characterization, but not the coinage, stuck—and fueled early speculation that what came […]
My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent
Most developers name their AI sub-agents things like stripe-agent or security-checker. I named mine George, Agatha, Ray, and Helen. This isn’t whimsy; it’s how I remember who the work is actually for. When I need to focus on payment integrations, I don’t invoke stripe-agent or payment-flow-optimizer. I invoke George. George Washington Carver spent his life […]