Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number of his claims.

update 2026-07-06: Anthropic added Playwright Chromium and an Artifact tool to their hosted environment.

The question I asked myself (and the private Slack channel): is ensuring that I have a phone based approach to agentic coding while I’m on vacation healthy because I’m ensuring that I’m not on the computer, a phone is less instrusive, or extremely unhealt…

claude -p is a quick hack that I find myself using more.

Timberborn is very much my kind of game.

On AI and code review.

I enjoyed this essay from my friend Ed Lyons, which I think speaks well to my particular state of mind as someone who has been in this industry for 30+ years, a parent, a people leader, a builder.

I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked on the topic.

When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time.

I spent Thursday at King’s County Court House finding out whether I was going to be called for jury duty.