Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts.

Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years.

Yesterday David Sacks wrote a tweet and within a few minutes people did, what they usually do, and they asked Pangram if it was AI.

This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral.

I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards).

A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware.

Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree.

One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.”

A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models.

Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI.

I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly.

A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days.

I don’t prompt Claude anymore.

There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos.