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Reading the board from the stands
Here are three compute strategies, and the thing I actually felt watching them. For the whole LLM circus I did not pay much attention to Nvidia.
Reading the board from the stands
Here are three compute strategies, and the thing I actually felt watching them. For the whole LLM circus I did not pay much attention to Nvidia.
Nvidia, Oxide, and tinygrad through a Wardley lens — the long version
Companion to “Reading the board from the stands”. The short essay is about what it did to me. This is the working-out: three value chains at three altitudes — the maps and my thoughts.
swamp-go-brr, the brain
Last post I built a cage — a Firecracker microVM to hold an agent I had let off the leash. This post is about what I put in it, and why the thing I put in it is a state machine and not a swarm.
Build the cage first
Two of Simon Wardley’s predictions have sat on my map for years: that serverless was the next evolution of devops, and that conversational programming was the one after it.
The shape of the decision
I meant to buy a flat in my second year here. Then life had other plans. After a hard stretch I will not lay out in full — climbing out of something, mostly — came a year of just making things stable again, and then a year given over to the language.
A feed to think with
The first night I got access to move.nl I spent four hours reading apartment listings and went to bed at one in the morning. I built a tool to watch the market so I do not have to.
