Victor Augusteo

The night before, my Bluebird driver dropped me at the hotel and asked if I wanted him to take me back to the airport in the morning.

Preference tuning is how you train a model on "this one, not that one" instead of "copy this."

I use both Claude Code and Codex all day, but not against the same backend.

Both Claude Code and Codex now ship a /goal command.

import Figure from "@components/figure/Figure.svelte"; import VideoTokenExplosion from "@components/figures/omni-modal-stack/VideoTokenExplosion.svelte"; import EvsPatchPruning from "@components/figures/omni-modal-stack/EvsPatchPruning.svelte"; A sequel to

An end-to-end, intuition-first explanation of Steve Yegge's multi-agent coding orchestrator, how it has evolved into Gas City, and what its design says about the next layer of developer tools.

A from-the-ground-up explanation of PgBouncer: why Postgres needs a connection pooler, what each pooling mode actually does, what breaks under transaction pooling, and how to run the thing in production.

An end-to-end, intuition-first explanation of how modern computer vision works, and why three papers published between late 2024 and early 2026 quietly changed the standard stack.

I watched Claude Code try to delete three pages from our app because I told it to "change the routing."

I use Claude Code every day.

I use Claude Code every day.

My friend Paul kept his woodworking tools in his living room.

Anthropic just published a study showing their own product makes developers worse.

Last week Claude ignored my CLAUDE.md instructions and switched to npm in a Bun project.

When Google announced "agentic vision" for Gemini 3 Flash (the model can run Python code to analyze images), I had to test it.

I watched Claude Code switch to npm in my Dockerfile.

Sean Goedecke's post on how he estimates work went viral on Hacker News.

I've been working remotely for years now, and there's one thing I keep noticing: fewer and fewer people turn on their cameras during video calls.

It started the way a lot of our family trips do: opening Google Flights during the kids' Thanksgiving break, looking for somewhere warm and cheap.

So I was scrolling through Hacker News yesterday and stumbled upon this discussion about Cate Hall's concept of the "Moat of Low Status".

Watch the full talk on YouTube: Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) I recently watched Andrej Karpathy's talk at Y Combinator on Youtube, and wow, it really crystallized a lot of thoughts I've been having about where software development is head…

Having been a fan of both John and Hank Green for years, I was excited to dive into Hank's debut novel.

I've been diving into Ruby on Rails after years of working with Swift for iOS and React.

Every day, countless teams worldwide participate in daily stand-ups or scrums.

When I interview candidates at my new company Boon, I always give them time at the end to ask questions.

I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Wind and Truth" yesterday, and I wanted to write up my thoughts while they're still fresh in my mind.

I've been using Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) for about a month now, and I’ve taken every possible opportunity to test it out.

I've been driving my 2015 Nissan Leaf for years, but recently it's become clear that I need a replacement.

Voice notes have become an essential part of my daily routine, helping me capture thoughts and ideas while staying active.

So, here’s the story of my phone number porting adventure.

Dear Grace and George, Remember a couple of weeks ago when we went to the Cambrian Code Off together?

"How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" is a book by psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett.

We have seen tons of impressive examples of how ChatGPT wows and bedazzles with its seemingly superhuman knowledge and writing ability.

Zebras with stripes so bold and bright Are known for their speed and their sight But there's something they often neglect Their dental care is often a suspect They roam the savannah, wild and free But their teeth can get quite cavitied So they must take t…

After years of writing my blog in markdown and publishing it with Hugo, I have recently decided to switch to using Notion and NextJS.

My book club at work will discuss this book, and I’m sure it will be an exciting session.

This blog post focuses on Hugo, but you can use the same technique for other static site generators.

Must Read Bad quality audio makes us think less of the speaker and what they’re saying.

Must Read Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ea…

Must Read NFTs are cryptocurrency tokens that represent the ownership in a digital asset.

World News It ‘Might Take Weeks’ To Free Ship Stuck In Suez Canal.

Science & Technology Study suggests that men and women actually prefer not to split household and childcare tasks equally A new study suggests that the unequal division of household and childcare tasks within partnerships may reflect men’s and women’s act…

Fund Distribution We have encountered unexpected problems during fund distributions—the main reason being that we didn’t screen the kids before finding a sponsor for them.

Since I published my previous blog post two weeks ago, we have made significant progress.

Why Borneo, Indonesia?

I’ve been having Soylent lunch for approximately five years.

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These are the best books I read this year.

The final product sitting beside by bed.

how would you describe what it means to “think Like a Freak”?