Valentin Radu · Dev log

Ten predictions and observations from the beautiful madness of the AI era.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 7.

In 1500 a country of a million people invented the ship that opened the world, got rich beyond its size, and then lost everything to latecomers with deeper pockets.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 6.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 4.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 5.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 1.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 2.

Back to wires: Introduction, Part 3.

Two npm supply chain attacks in early 2026: the Axios compromise by Sapphire Sleet and the Mini Shai-Hulud worm by TeamPCP.

Vector search: The problem, Part 4.

Vector search: The problem, Part 3.

Almost every public article online is written with AI assistance now.

Vector search: The problem, Part 2.

Vector search: The problem, Part 1.

A writeup of building formalang, a compiler frontend, with Claude in the loop.

Deploy Mistral's Devstral Small 2 (24B coding model) with vLLM on a 48 GB workstation GPU or rented cloud instance, then connect it to OpenAI-compatible agentic clients (Cline, Continue, OpenCode).

The exponential thread: The puzzle, Part 2.

The exponential thread: The puzzle, Part 1.

Rust for Swift devs: The type system, Part 6.

Rust for Swift devs: The type system, Part 5.

Rust for Swift devs: The type system, Part 4.

Rust for Swift devs: The type system, Part 3.

Rust for Swift devs: The type system, Part 2.

Rust for Swift devs: The type system, Part 1.

Deploying Rust on AWS Lambda in 2026: how the toolchain has changed since 2019, and what a minimal, idiomatic setup looks like today.