Everything below is reproducible — harness, frozen ledgers, one-click notebook: github.com/Travis42/telegraph-test. Numbers from a 50-passage, ~1,300-question benchmark: Cross-family matrix (readers = foreign models answering from GLM-5.3-Flash’s records; writers = GLM-5.3-Flash answering from theirs)1Savings shown use the lowercase instruction, on each … Read more
Two simple rules that let LLMs streamline and improve your writing without pasteurizing and jacking it with corn syrup. It’s tricky to write about writing. It comes across as a brag; you’re implying that you write well. Maybe you do, … Read more
by Michael Lynch, published June 24, 2026 A good design doc can save you years of development time. Writing a design doc forces you to think through important decisions before you waste time on the wrong implementation. It’s also the … Read more
– an owl mid flight I saw last summer. try drawing it. “You should have failed this class. I’m going to make accommodations so that no student can pass next semester the same way you did.” This is what my … Read more
Most LocalAI backends wrap somebody else’s engine, and that is the right default. llama.cpp, vLLM, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion, MLX and the rest are maintained by people who are better at those models than we are, and wrapping them costs a Dockerfile … Read more
The Ideals There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me particularly intense pleasure. One is the opening paragraph from his essay “On Dreams”: Half … Read more
It’s our job to build the software factory – not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately. We set up the infrastructure that makes agents successful. We act … Read more
It’s our job to build the software factory – not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately. We set up the infrastructure that makes agents successful. We act … Read more
One of the best things about LLMs is that they’ll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don’t have to be the one updating the same long conditional in four different files – the AI … Read more
(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python … Read more