#llm
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In a previous post I listed eleven ways an agent eval can lie, and one of them was trusting an uncalibrated LLM judge. This post covers what can go wrong with LLM-as-a-judge…
- The Bread Got Thicker·1 min
Matheus Lima's Brain Sandwich describes working with AI as think first, delegate, then think again. It maps neatly onto how I see the developer role changing. For most of my…
A SQL agent is asked the simplest question finance can ask: what was our net revenue last month? It answers 320.00. The right answer is 210.00. Nothing errors, the query looks…
In January 2026, tldraw announced it would automatically close pull requests from external contributors "until GitHub provides better tools for managing contributions", and curl…
Computer use means an agent that looks at the screen, moves the mouse and types, so it can work with software that has no API: legacy portals, desktop apps, internal tools. It's…
In August, Stripe announced it had agreed to acquire OpenRouter — reportedly for more than $7 billion, per Bloomberg . OpenRouter helps businesses route and optimize token usage…
As I wrote in Tokens as Currency , token usage is becoming a real operating constraint. AI coding agents burn tokens on things they don't need to see in full - verbose logs,…
- Spec-Driven Development·2 min
I recently read Spec-Driven Development by Haim Michale, and it resonated with some day-to-day thoughts about SDD. The problem SDD aims to solve isn't new Missing, incomplete, and…
- RAG Made Simple·1 min
📚 Just finished " RAG Made Simple: The Complete Visual Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation " by Nir Diamant, and it happened to be one of those rare cases where the book…
The Quarterback Paradox - while I'm not sure I agree that it is a paradox - i.e., recruiting a critical position to an organization is hard even if you have a lot of data, I love…
Last update: February 1st, 2026 Coding agents are no longer a novelty - they’re everywhere. Over the past year, we’ve seen massive adoption across startups and enterprises,…
- Tokens as Currency·1 min
Half-baked thought: Tokens will become currency. Right now, the direction is obvious - more money buys more tokens. But what if, in the near future, tokens themselves become a…
Over the past few months, I have been constantly reading conversations about how Generative AI will reshape software engineering. On LinkedIn, Twitter, or in closed professional…
Have you noticed how half the posts on LinkedIn these days feel like they were written by an LLM - too many words for too little substance ? Or how product roadmaps suddenly…
AWS has released several notable announcements within the LLM ecosystem over the last few days. Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors (preview) - Amazon S3 Vectors is a durable,…
Agents app design pattern - this is a back-to-basics adaptation. How would we read this 14 years from now? Would the ideas he mentioned there be a standard?…
PgAI - LLMs have been part of everyday life already for a while. One aspect I think has not been explored well so far is using them as part of ETL. The implementations I have seen…
How we built Text-to-SQL at Pinterest - Text-to-SQL and vice versa became one of the canonical examples of LLM, and every product needs one. The post described a very interesting…
(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup - in my current role as a CTO of an early-stage startup, I make many…
SQL as API - I saw several efforts to expose RDBMS as API over the years. This post suggests another engel - exposing an API that accepts SQL. Consider this a brain teaser.…