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Escaping the Dumb Zone with RLMs
Back in October I wrote about small models being the future. The thesis: you don’t need a trillion parameters for most tasks. I want to get to a point where...
Compression Is Not Enough: The Journey Matters
A few weeks ago I wrote about context engineering and RPI after watching Dex Horthy’s talk. My colleague Pierre-Luc Godin (PL) read it and wanted to dig into one point....
Nixifying Local LLMs: Promoting GGUF Models to Nix Derivations
Local LLM models are huge. Multi-gigabyte files scattered across default cache folders, downloaded separately on every machine, with no integrity verification. It drove me nuts. If I’m going to commit...
First Mover Advantage Isn't Enough
Good ideas don’t build strong businesses. Execution does. Sometimes all you need is an initial implementation for someone else to come along, learn from your mistakes, and win. Having the...
On Beads, Bloat, and Breaking Points
Beads changed how I think about agentic workflows. The concept is genuinely revolutionary - persistent memory for coding agents that survives context compaction, dependency graphs, task tracking that actually works...
The Dog Ate My AI-Generated Code
I watched Dex’s talk on context engineering at AI Engineer World’s Fair, and it gave a name to something I’ve been experiencing for months. You know that feeling when you’re...
There and Back Again: Immutable Dev Environments
Six years ago I wrote about moving to an immutable dev environment using Docker. Now I’m back to Nix. Again.
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Small Models, Big Future
A couple of years ago, running capable language models locally seemed impractical. Now? I’m doing it daily, with predictable costs and complete privacy.
Immutable Dev Environment
…of course that SSD would fail under me and wreck my install! Thankfully I was really disciplined and was carefully keeping my dotfiles repository up-to-date. Coming back to the state...
Writing Is Hard
Writing is Hard. Wow. It’s the most underrated skill ever. Something that I consider highly desirable, yet so hard to attain!