Writing

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.

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.

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.

AI outages reveal how much thinking we've outsourced - and why resilience means using the speed without losing the skill.