Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?
Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud.
6 min read
AI engineering
Building with models, by people who ship with them.
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Wednesday 7 October
Tuesday 6 October
Sunday 4 October
Saturday 3 October
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors"…
Friday 2 October
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.
7 min read
Tuesday 29 September
OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote. You are only seeing the long-form articles from my…
Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency
33 min read
Monday 28 September
The Code Nobody Reads
Line-by-line review is going away. Whatever replaces it has to earn the trust reading used to provide.
18 min read
Sunday 27 September
2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube; here are my annotated slides and…
Saturday 26 September
Tuesday 22 September
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my…
Monday 21 September
Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM format: it still accepts…
Sunday 20 September
Monday 14 September
Brownfield Agentic Engineering
What it takes to run agents in a codebase older than the team
13 min read
Saturday 12 September
Wednesday 9 September
GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning
A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks
26 min read
Sunday 6 September
Monday 31 August
Agentic Skill Decay
Agents can finish the task without teaching you anything. Building expertise now has to be deliberate.
16 min read
Thursday 27 August
Saturday 22 August
How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text
A 48-minute video walkthrough of token sampling, watermark detection, and removal
34 min read
Friday 21 August
Human judgment doesn't leave the software factory. It relocates.
A field guide to building a software factory that still has an owner.
20 min read
Saturday 15 August
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch
An End-to-End Project With Dataset Construction, Model Training, Local Deployment, and RLVR
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Saturday 18 July
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes
25 min read
