GitHub Octoverse 2026
GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in...
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The October inflection point for vibe game development
I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily...
What If AI Builds the Robot Instead of Controlling It?
Last year I wrote about robotics moving from bespoke machines toward reusable foundation models, essentially an attempt to build a general-purpose robot brain. More recently, I argued that models are getting easier to...
Quoting Terk Terkowitz
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can...
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year, the conference badge is a full-blown color screen computer. I've been hacking around with it again, and then I ran into...
Anthropic’s IPO: The Business Is Real. The Hard Part Comes Next
If you had asked me a year ago which frontier AI lab would go public first, I would have said OpenAI. Instead, Anthropic has filed for one of the most anticipated technology IPOs in years. The numbers deserve a closer...
This robotics result surprised me.
Subscribe • Previous Issues What If AI Builds the Robot Instead of Controlling It? Last year I wrote about robotics moving from bespoke machines toward reusable foundation models, essentially an attempt to build a...
China’s Export Strength Is Only Half the Story
Most media coverage of China focuses on its export and manufacturing prowess. Yet when I talk with visitors and friends just back from the country, what they most want to discuss is the bleak job market, especially for...
GPT-6.1 Terra
GPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reasoning and computer use: We’re introducing...
Quoting Jason Koebler
Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And,...
webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox
Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden...
How LLM Rerankers Order Retrieved Passages
A reranker takes a question and a shortlist of retrieved passages, reads them again, and changes their order before a large language model (LLM) receives its context. The first search finds candidates across a large...
Seam Cutter
Tool: Seam Cutter I built this weird and very specific cropping tool - it lets you create a horizontal or vertical cut across an image, then slide the two sides relative to each other. Effectively it lets you crop out a...
A rising tide raises all rents
You're a rent seeker. It's an economist insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now. Michael from The Good Place (paraphrased) Imagine, for a second, that AI really does become too cheap to meter. What happens...
Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up: A Video Course
I have written a lot about reasoning models here over the last two years on Ahead of AI, including a recent article on mechanisms to control reasoning effort levels in contemporary LLMs. Reasoning models are still as...
battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map
Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle -...
Quick Study
Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High: Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my...
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version...
How Looped Transformers Reuse Their Weights
A looped Transformer reuses a group of neural-network layers several times before predicting the next token. Each pass receives the hidden representations produced by the previous pass. Those representations are the...
The Russian-Doll Approach to Agent Monitoring Leaves Enterprises Vulnerable
These last few months have seen a wave of AI security breaches, with no frontier model provider immune to the risk.Perhaps the most well-known of these is the Hugging Face incident, when OpenAI agents broke into the...