We’ve lost our respect for complexity.

The recent release of DeepSeek-R1 made a pretty big splash, breaking into the mainstream news cycle in a way that the steady model releases we’ve had for a couple years now did not do. The main focuses of these stories were that 1. it was cheap and 2. it was chinese, forcing the market to […]

(This was originally written as an assignment for my masters studies, I thought it might be interesting, read at your own risk etc.) Are we offsetting or accelerating the green transition? Prices for green energy are coming down [1] and given an assumption that this trend will continue, the price of reliable green energy may […]

I spent a few years designing and partially building a library used for the validation of front office models at a financial institution, and I thought it might be a good idea to write down what I learned during that time. It was my first ever big project and happened to some degree by accident, […]

We often talk about rewriting code and almost as often talk about whether big rewrites are even a good idea. Joel Spolsky writes a particularly harrowing story of how netscape rewrote their entire codebase and in so doing perhaps doomed their chances of recovery. In summary, here are some key things you need to keep […]

Using more abstract ideas like who is suitable for a role forces the model to consider a vast range of things, I think there is value in a test like that.