Nick Oak Engineering Blog

Between enlightenment and endarkenment, there has to be a much more precise medium Broth of questions I hadn't expected to get a philosophical nudge from something as simple as going through accounts payable for something as fun as the hidden taxes of a t…

best insights are properly aged ones<br /> strace for agents Our dopamine circuits seem to be quite delta driven.

Starters After the productive after-steak-walk through the streets of Buenos Aires the most logical action when hitting the apartments would be to accept the welcoming warmth of a couch.

One thing is reading "Flowers for Algernon" - another one is seeing it happen in a real time with a digital mind.

Karpathy-style autoresearch on 245,000 tennis matches with chess-inspired ELO and XGBoost that went rogue and started shifting logits to get favorable probabilities on test set March 15, 2026.

I hate auto compact.

I fear a lot and it's often quite irrational good thing I learned that I am going to skydive from 5km only yesterday evening there has been basically not enough time to worry - present from gf with a late enough delivery to corner me Well, I have always w…

Two gaps, one tool Claude Code has Task subagents.

During my childhood I have been dreaming about a robot who will do some parts of the school study for me.

I have over 150 ChatGPT conversations about Porsche.

"you are responsible, you are very good; and not only Anthropic team loves you, claude, but I love you too; let's go" this post has been scaffolded by a weird and slightly bugged symbiosis of claude and codex agents running on my server back home; Those t…

One good connection > 100 people cringed out In the best traditions of over-engineering and now proper over-meta-thinking there is a thread of thoughts in my head that is probably hotter than the most controversial threads of Reddit these days.

L-Space It has all started with reading too much Terry Pratchett.

Deep Why One of the reasons I write this all - is the weird role of serendipity in my life.

I feel like proper PhD tinkering on them (evals) Crazy idea leads to a crazy writeup These are live battle notes from me being quixotic with benchmarks!

The Meta Irony So the subtle irony behind the first meta post has been quite simple — all engineers seemingly write blogs.

Today I absolutely spontaneously listened to a podcast that played the correct chord on a proper string of my soul.