Plan mode is dead

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Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI. My belief in this idea was so strong that I built and launched an entire desktop coding app around it. Nuanced … Read more

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

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the question everyone is asking dynomight.net/liver [Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineering and design decisions that entails. … Read more

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

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Get expressive high-quality speech generation built for global scale Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS delivers leading voice customization capabilities, securing the #1 overall spot on Hume AI’s Voice Design Benchmark (71.4) and also leading in accent modeling (60.8). Gemini 3.8 Flash … Read more

The NX bit is not just about security

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September 4, 2026 Guest post Lobsters While I’m taking a short break from low-level programming, here’s a story by a friend of mine, Sonya, about debugging a seemingly impossible bug in ARM code. This bug hunting saga started several months … Read more

Agent Memory as a File Format

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August 2026 Memoryfields – a vastly simpler way to do agent memory [Floppy disk insertion noise] WOW – I know the corporate VLAN configuration Many model benchmarks start from a blank context window. The tabula rasa of AI. To some … Read more