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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 216 posts
The Agentic AI Industry Landscape 2026 — A Map from an Investing Lens
A map of the agentic AI industry that surged into 2026, viewed through an investing lens. We cover funding and developer-adoption trends, applications by industry, the competition between big tech and startups, the monet
2026-06-18 · 15 min read #ai#agentic-ai#industry#investment#big-techOn-Device and Edge AI — When AI Moves Inside the Device
AI inference, once confined to the cloud, is moving into smartphones, PCs, and embedded devices. This post examines the three drivers (latency, privacy, cost), the rise of NPUs and on-device LLMs, and the investment and
2026-06-18 · 19 min read #ai#edge-ai#on-device#npu#llmIn the End You Need Your Own Story — Learning That Applies to Life
No matter how much you learn, it rings hollow until you make it your own. Even when you use AI, the learning only counts if it applies to your life. This essay is about restating learning in your own words, objectifying
2026-06-17 · 21 min read #learning#metacognition#storytelling#ai#authenticityOSS Maintainers vs AI Contributions — The Questions Raised by the jqwik Affair
The anti-AI measures taken by the maintainer of jqwik, the JVM property-based testing engine, set HN and GeekNews ablaze in June 2026. This post offers a balanced look at the asymmetric burden AI contributions place on m
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #opensource#ai#maintainer#contribution-policy#communityThe 30x AI Engineer Is Defined by Taste, Not Speed
An introduction to and expansion of the widely discussed Substack essay How to be a 30x AI engineer with taste. As AI commoditizes code production, the differentiator becomes evaluative judgment — deciding what to build
2026-06-12 · 19 min read #ai#career#engineering-culture#productivity#code-reviewRebuilding the Second Brain — Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) in the AI Era
Designing a PKM system that turns notes into real knowledge amid information overload. Covers the essence of Zettelkasten and PARA, how AI changed the role of notes, a recipe for querying your notes with local LLMs and e
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #pkm#productivity#obsidian#zettelkasten#aiArtisans and Builders — Where Developers Should Stand When LLMs Erode Their Careers
Built around two essays — Artisans and builders from the Stack Overflow blog and the HN-viral LLMs are eroding my software engineering career — this post redefines developer identity in the AI era. It covers the democrat
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #career#ai#engineering-culture#llm#senior-engineerCan an Imitation Machine Discover — The Sutton Provocation and the RL Counterattack
Rich Sutton, the godfather of reinforcement learning, set the community ablaze in June 2026 by arguing that generative AI trained with supervised learning is an imitation model and therefore limited for genuinely new sci
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #ai#reinforcement-learning#llm#research#ai-agentWhose Words Does the AI Speak — The German Ruling That Made Google Liable for AI Overviews
In June 2026 a German court classified Google AI Overviews not as a listing of search results but as speech by Google itself, holding the company directly liable for false answers. We dissect the reasoning, the clash wit
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #ai#law#liability#rag#governanceContext Engineering — How to Design Memory for AI Agents
The era of prompt engineering is fading, and context engineering has emerged as the core skill. This post covers the economics of the context window, memory tier design, patterns for automatically extracting facts from c
2026-06-12 · 17 min read #ai#context-engineering#llm#ai-agent#memoryHow to Review AI-Written Code — Redesigning Code Review
The surge of AI-generated code has made code review the biggest bottleneck in the development pipeline. This post covers how defect patterns differ between human and AI code, redesigning review strategy around spec compa
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #ai#code-review#ai-agent#engineering-culture#open-sourceLoop Engineering — Design the System That Prompts Your Agent
The era of manually prompting an agent every turn is ending. This post covers plan-act-verify-self-correct loop design, verification loops that wire tests and linters into agent feedback, how to design repo-level guide f
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #ai#loop-engineering#ai-agent#claude-code#devopsIs AI Really Slowing Down — Reading the 2026 AI Bubble Debate Through Datacenter Economics
A breakdown of the AI is slowing down debate that dominated the first half of 2026, viewed through datacenter economics. We cover the claim that 2 trillion dollars of annual revenue is needed by 2030, the arithmetic of 1
2026-06-12 · 20 min read #ai#economics#datacenter#gpu#infrastructureChinese AI Labs in 2026 — A Deep Dive into DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Yi, Doubao, Hunyuan (The New Center of Gravity for Open Weights)
When DeepSeek-V3 dropped a 671B MoE in December 2024 and R1 added open-weight reasoning in January 2025, the world paused. Since then Alibaba's Qwen 3 (235B-A22B) has become the de facto new open-weight standard; Moonsho
2026-05-15 · 25 min read #ai#china#deepseek#qwen#alibabaCUDA GPU Programming Model Deep Dive — SIMT, Memory Hierarchy, Tensor Core, Kernel Optimization (2025)
The engine behind ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and Sora — NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA. This post dissects the CUDA programming model from scratch: GPU hardware architecture (SM, Warp, CUDA Core), SIMT vs SIMD, thread hierarchy (G
2026-04-15 · 15 min read #cuda#gpu#nvidia#ai#machine-learningThe Frontend Engineer in 2025 — Career Growth, RSC, Signals, AI, Edge, Burnout (Season 6 Finale)
The Season 6 finale: where is the frontend engineer role in 2026? Server Components and Signals changed the mental model. AI pair-programmers changed how we write code. The "full-stack TypeScript" identity matured. Here
2026-04-15 · 8 min read #frontend#career#rsc#signals#aiApplication Security Engineering Guide — OWASP Top 10, Authentication, Encryption, DevSecOps
Everything about application security: OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, secure authentication/authorization, practical encryption, secure coding, and DevSecOps pipelines.
2026-04-13 · 16 min read #ai#security#owasp#authentication#encryptionThe Complete MLOps & AI Model Deployment Guide — From Training to Serving and Monitoring
The entire process of training, deploying, and operating AI models. Everything about MLOps from MLflow, Kubeflow, model serving, A/B testing, to drift detection.
2026-04-13 · 17 min read #mlops#ai#deployment#model-serving#monitoringBlockchain & Web3 Fully Explained — How Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs Work
How does blockchain work? What are smart contracts? Why did DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs emerge? From core technology principles to 2026 trends.
2026-04-12 · 19 min read #ai#blockchain#web3#bitcoin#ethereumTypeScript & Next.js Practical Guide — Type-Safe Full-Stack Development
Everything about modern web development, from TypeScript advanced type system to Next.js 15 App Router, Server Components, and Server Actions.
2026-04-12 · 21 min read #ai#typescript#nextjs#react#fullstack