Writing things down so I don't have to repeat myself.
Mostly AI, with the occasional tangent.
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You can't prompt your way past what you don't understand
I got stuck on a single sentence on the Rust homepage and realised I couldn't actually explain half the words in it. So I'm learning Rust in the open, because you can't prompt your way past a concept you don't understand.
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Agents don't need better prompts. They need better permissions
March's agent launches made the shift obvious: once an LLM can read Jira, browse links, and open pull requests, the real engineering problem is no longer prompt wording. It's blast radius.
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How preference tuning ruined a perfectly good punctuation mark
A step-by-step trace through the training pipeline that turns a punctuation mark into a writing tic. Tokenisers, reward models, and the labellers who accidentally taught GPT to love polish.
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On YouTubeNot everything I make is writing. A couple of them live here.
I'm an AI engineer, mostly trying to get things to work and then writing down what I learn. Most of it's AI and ML, with the odd tangent when something else grabs me. Some holds up, some I'd already do differently. If it saves you a wrong turn, good.