Bug blindness
There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
The benchmarkpocalypse
How does programming language affect token efficiency and correctness?
Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires
Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
A discussion of discussions on AI bias
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle
This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise. As with the Exhibit H Twitter text message release , there are a lot of articles that quote bits of this, but the articles generally missing a lot of what happened and often paint a misleading picture of happened and t
Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did this so that I could easily read this and, after reading it, I've found that most accountings of what was said are, in one way or another, fairly misleading. Since the texts aren't all that long, if y
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
In defense of simple architectures
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
Misidentifying talent
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
Cocktail party ideas
The container throttling problem
Some thoughts on writing
Some latency measurement pitfalls
Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
Individuals matter
Culture matters
Willingness to look stupid
What to learn
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
The value of in-house expertise
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Against essential and accidental complexity
Finding the Story
This is an archive of an old pseudonymously written post from the 90s from someone whose former pseudonym seems to have disappeared from the internet. I see that Star Trek: Voyager has added a new character, a Borg. (From the photos, I also see that they're still breeding women for breast size in the 24th century.) What ticked me off was the producer's comment (I'm paraphrasing), "The addition of
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
A simple way to get more value from tracing
A simple way to get more value from metrics
The growth of command line options, 1979-Present
Suspicious discontinuities
95%-ile isn't that good
