AI
Gemma
Anthropic pulled Fable and Mythos from the market following US intervention, a frustrating move considering Fable was performing for me like Opus was six months ago, before the steady performance degradation across versions 4.6+. It really makes me wonder where LLM proliferation needs to go to ensure we aren’t tied to these frontier labs.
Race to (No)where(?)
Jasper sent me a post on AI enthusiasts and skeptics, the enthusiasts racing against time and the skeptics racing against entropy, and Jasper and I turned it into a funny metaphor about electric cars.
Low
The last few evenings went into building Hypo and the Dragon Touch setup. Agentic coding is a different kind of effort: the cycles from idea to working product are so fast that you barely notice how much you are putting in.
Green
I picked this one at random from today’s shots and liked it for the framing and the minimal colors, and for the fact that there are no birds in it for once.
Principles
One of my team leads came to me today with a proposal. I gave feedback, we talked it through, and at some point we laughed about whether it would be possible to know in advance what my reaction would be, whether my thinking was consistent enough that you could predict where the pushback would land before talking to me.
Change as a Commodity
I’ve been trying to answer a question about AI and software development for a while now, and I don’t think I’ve been looking far enough for an answer.