Claude's café pop-up convinced me to switch LLMs
Claude's café pop-up convinced me to switch LLMs
 -  There’s a new cool kid on the AI block, and its name is Anthropic. On my recent trip to New York, I noted the huge poster campaigns for its Claude large language models (LLMs), but it turned out that was just the beginning. Just after I flew back ...
Quality products begin with detail-obsessed leaders
Quality products begin with detail-obsessed leaders
 -  It often feels like modern business is stuck in a loop. An idea is successful, there is a push to scale it as far and quickly as possible, and it’s optimised to within an inch of its life - but normally only in the name of profit. Usually this res...
Humanising AI encourages intellectual lethargy
Humanising AI encourages intellectual lethargy
 -  I recently stumbled upon a Hacker News thread around a series of X posts about ChatGPT’s o3 model. Researchers noted that it “frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies those actions when confronted”, in one case c...
Welcome to a new website with a new philosophy
Welcome to a new website with a new philosophy
 -  You may have noticed that things have changed around here - I built a new website, following the ethos that it should be as clear, lightweight, and fast as possible while respecting visitors’ privacy by keeping outside scripts and tracking to a mi...
Raspberry Pi Home Hub: Building and sending a daily email briefing
Raspberry Pi Home Hub: Building and sending a daily email briefing
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Raspberry Pi Home Hub: Project intro, requirements and objectives
Raspberry Pi Home Hub: Project intro, requirements and objectives
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Review – Threat Modeling: Designing for Security by Adam Shostack
Review – Threat Modeling: Designing for Security by Adam Shostack
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