What should we do when code is cheap? Lately, this blog has featured a lot of writing about agentic coding. Frontier models are really good at coding these days, much better than they are at other tasks. Coding with agents … Read more
product, design, and engineering lessons from building Sail & Muddy Published March 2026 In 2022 I was looking for a very specific thing: a small team, less than ten people, before product market fit, working on something I actually cared … Read more
There are some contemporary piracy services that run ads—for marketing and, well, advertising purposes. This ranges from PPC to social media campaigns. I opted not to, mostly because I didn’t think I could do it tastefully, and because I’d probably … Read more
“Customers look at Microsoft’s Copilot and think, ‘Oh great, Clippy 2.0!’” – Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce “Copilot? Think of it as Clippy after a decade at the gym.” – Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft If you don’t know what … Read more
Our tiny startup recently acquired the most popular open-source Unity MCP repo on GitHub, and things didn’t quite go as planned. Here are the lessons we learned for anyone considering buying an open source repo. Why we bought the repo … Read more
It took me a decade, but now I can finally say it: I’ve listened to every episode of This American Life. Or at least every episode they’ve aired so far, which right now means… all 863 of them. Anyone who … Read more
7th of June, 2025 Hermann Ludwig Heinrich Count of Pückler-Muskau was born in 1785 to the Earl Pückler and was later granted sovereignty over his land by King Friedrich III. His fame is unbroken today, but not because of his … Read more
How It Started Recently, I made a new app called Kintoun. It’s a document translator that delivers very high quality translations and keeps the original layout almost perfectly. At first, I didn’t expect much. But after comparing it with Google … Read more
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I started my career at Hughes Aircraft in 1972 while working on my Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After designing airborne computers for four years, I graduated and then taught and did systems research at UC … Read more