Bogdan Buduroiu

There’s a genre of essay that has been circulating in Taiwan-watcher spaces for a while now, and I think it carries enough analysis, and a critical enough reading of the situation, that it deserves to be engaged with rather than shouted at.

The main flaw of my AI Lent concept was that it was an infrequent, high committment challenge.

MLA, KDA, MoE, NoPE all attack either bytes transferred or bytes resident.

Why do we care about avoiding rotary positional encoding in the first place?

I’m only now starting to dive deep into Atproto and the design decisions being made.

This feels like a natural evolution of the RLM paradigm.

I prefer interacting with good AI customer service agents.

I think clamouring for “sovereign frontier AI” is what “middle powers” shouldn’t do.

I tried to define what a Cassandra should be, but could only come up with what it shouldn’t be, and that’s pessimism-as-a-service, or seniority-driven friction.

We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone’s civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services.

My first original piece on the company blog, aimed at understanding how blending autoregressive generation and symbolic programs not only boosts the effectiveness of AI Agents on long-horizon tasks, but is also a free test oracle for steering Agent trajec…

I’m instinctively appalled by news like this, but I’m also wondering, to what extent is the content inside these rare books made effectively useless to humanity, mainly due to the amount of gatekeeping that access to these kinds of materials enjoy.

When I started using Obsidian, it was a niche tool for people that were into Zettelkasten and Dark Mode.

The Meiji Shrine in Central Tokyo is one of the largest Shinto shrines in Japan.

For Framework to be effective and cheap, they need scale and normies to switch.

Strict No LLM / No AI Policy No LLMs for issues.

At the end of my AI Lent wrap up post post I wrote: I was sure that I would renounce the use of AI tools for good, and proudly proclaim my newfound wisdom and virtue to the world.

Planning on making a proper build around this, which has some sort of weatherproofing, and can be mounted out-front.

Interesting insight that MoE models might be better suited for self-hosting, since apps like Claude Code require multiple models to work in parallel for different tasks.

Easter weekend has come and gone in a blitz, and seemingly, so has this challenge.

It almost feels like writing a journal entry detailing some sort of relapse on the road to an addiction I’m trying to break.

Article argues that we should value maintainers as guardians, and that maintaining is an unappreciated job, because if maintaining is done right, nothing happens.

A big part of the skill in building software is understanding what’s possible and what isn’t, and having at least a rough idea of how those things can be accomplished.

These “reforms” have predictably eroded the capacity of governments to carry out basic functions while increasing their dependence on profit-driven companies and contractors that often cost significantly more than government employees. […] contractors now…

TLDR at the end For someone with a lot of free time to tinker with tech, Apple feels kinda meh nowadays.

I love this format, I like to see more human curation of content.

I haven’t watched any of the Marvel movies, the last Disney movie I enjoyed was the 1998 version of Mulan.

Age verification is obviously a “casus belli” that a bunch of (mostly Western, mostly European) leaders adopt because they realise the next 10-20 years will be marked by having to lead from positions of deep unpopularity.

Ok, * cracks knuckles * I know what I need to do to refactor this.

What if instead of measuring AI by the standard of human intelligence, we measured human intelligence by the standard of AI.

Still really really hard to work with large codebases without AI, it’s really mentally draining, but I think it’s because I’ve relied on Claude Code for so long.

Long read about how the reading revolution of the 18th century was “a catastrophe for the ultra-privileged and exploitative aristocrats of the European aristocratic ancient regime”, how the rapid expansion of literacy helped destroy the old system of gove…

Google Maps is not a directory, it’s a market maker.

KPIs for digital products trend upwards and to the right when they provide us with the cloth mother to comfort our monkey brains.

it was the summer before my final year in university that a mate of mine introduced me to Ian Goodfellow’s “Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples”. we were sitting in a Spoons on Southampton’s High Street when he showed me the infamous panda to g…

Weekend time, spent it reading and engaging with various communities on Mastodon.

I’m treating this blog as future self-reference first.

I make use of RETURNING heavily when writing Postgres-based worker queues.

ThePrimeagen gloated about buying Micron stock when he learned that AI is very memory hungry, I didn’t really have my finger on the pulse to that degree.

My second day without AI, it took me 4 hours to write a simple Express API

Most software engineering involves plumbing together the same 4 SaaS tools that corporate approved and negotiated contracts with.

Good balance between hype and doom in this article responding a NYT’s op-ed calling AI ‘mid’.