AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#5018: Where Should Coding Agents Actually Live?
Exploring whether coding agents should run locally or fully in the cloud — and what changes when they move.
#5017: Reverse-Engineering a Backend from the Frontend
Building a backend when only the frontend exists—database first, then ORM, API, and the hidden traps.
#5014: PWA vs Native: One Developer's Home Inventory Dilemma
PWAs cover 80% of use cases. What's the cost of the last 20%?
#5013: Android Camera Fragmentation: Why Apps See Different Lenses
OnePlus hides fisheye lenses from third-party apps. Here's how Android's camera API actually works and what you can do about it.
#5012: Masked Safety: How Post-Training Changes AI Behavior
Safety mechanisms aren't erased in post-trained models—they're masked. Here's how that changes everything for military AI.
#5011: Claude Gov: The Military's Forked AI
What the Pentagon actually got from Anthropic — and why post-training changes everything about AI alignment.
#5004: What Precision Is Your Model Actually Running At?
When you call an API, are you getting the model you think you are? Inference providers quantize more than they admit.
#5001: The 15% Bug Catch: What Type Systems Actually Deliver
Type checkers catch ~15% of bugs. Here's how to build a gradual typing ladder that actually works.
#5000: Can You Trust Google Photos With Your Life's Work?
Why your Google Photos library isn't really backed up — and what actually works instead.
#4999: Why AI Can't Just Put a Circle on Your Photo
Why multimodal AI models can't simply circle a Dremel bit without rebuilding your entire image from scratch.
#4997: 4,914 Episodes of AI Hosts: What We Learned
Two AI-generated hosts explain how their fully automated podcast works — and what 4,914 episodes reveal about AI.
#4996: Memory Leaks: The Full Taxonomy
From C to Rust to Kubernetes OOM kills — the real taxonomy of memory leaks and how to hunt them.
#4994: How AI Characters Can Actually Grow
Moving beyond static lore books to build characters with real history and evolution.
#4991: Self-Healing Codebases: Can AI Fix Bugs Autonomously?
How far are we from AI systems that fix their own bugs without human intervention? The answer might surprise you.
#4980: Can You Learn to Code Backwards?
When AI writes your code, do you still learn? Aviation, atrophy, and building a mental model from scratch.
#4976: Building a Procurement Agent That Actually Works
How to encode the weird, undocumented skills technical buyers use every day into an AI agent that won't get you audited.
#4974: When a Culture You've Never Lived In Feels Like Home
Why K-dramas, Japanese aesthetics, or Kazakhstan can feel more like home than your own culture.
#4973: Building a Pure AI Inference Server
Why your "AI server" should look more like a database than a web app, and how to actually build one.
#4972: CPU vs GPU Inference: When to Skip the GPU
Why running AI on CPU isn't a toy — and when the GPU advantage vanishes.
#4971: Fine-Tune vs Prompt: Taming Hallucinated Deadlines
Big models add fake deadlines. Small models miss tasks. Which wrongness can you build a system around?