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LLMs spent billions of dollars learning the best subword dictionary that has ever existed. Somewhere around 200,000 pieces of language, ranked by how much they compress. And I kept looking at that dictionary and thinking: nobody is allowed to just use that for compression? TokPress is a pure-Python lossless
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For a while my workflow with AI was: the chat suggests a fix, I paste it into the terminal, run the tests, copy the error back. I was a very slow USB cable between the model and my Windows PC. Agent modes were supposed to end that. On Windows they
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After an embarrassing number of hours binge watching Law & Order, I can recite the Miranda rights almost verbatim. Until this week, that particular skill had contributed absolutely nothing to my life, let alone my work in AI governance. Then OpenAI and Anthropic appeared before Australian lawmakers. At an October
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An AI agent can finish a feature, pass the tests, and still leave behind unnecessary abstractions, misleading comments, or a README that no longer matches the product. Asking it to "check everything" gives it little guidance about what to investigate or what would count as proof. Awesome Agent
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A paired 230-question experiment with the same BM25 implementation, two tool interfaces, and a result that made me inspect the evidence actually delivered to the model. Disclosure: I build Minimal RAG, the personal research project discussed here. This article was prepared with AI assistance from recorded experiments and checked against
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These days, isn't software the least valuable thing a software company owns? I think software as we know it is coming to an end. Anyone can now build it, copy it or replace it, and whatever anyone can build stops protecting the company that sells it. What'
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AI is changing the way we work and live in ways that we find hard to imagine. Around 2015 I had a dream, in which I was on a call out rota. Being on call is routine for me. What was out of the ordinary was that I was working
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How a project that began with one agent led me to ask, “Am I really the original?” This document is a thought experiment, rather than a forecast. It begins with the agent environment I actually operate and follows its direction as far as it can go. It does not guarantee
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You're writing your tests, your AI agent is crushing it, all use cases and edge ones are being covered, but you've installed an AWS SDK and now you'll need to mock it (oh boy). After a few hours in, and a few years of
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This is a story about how I spent 21 months building a trading system, wrote down what it would take for it to become a company, and then had two AI models tell me that it hadn’t. If you’ve read my last three posts, you know TopSet. It’
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There's a popular tourist attraction close to where I live called the Ballard Locks. It's an old lock complex that raises and lowers boats going between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, and it also has a pretty nifty fish ladder, which is why the site attracts
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Your application is healthy. The database is responding. The dashboard is green. A user asks the AI assistant a question, and nothing comes back. This is an awkward kind of outage because the rest of the system may be working perfectly. The model service could be slow, rate limited, unavailable,
