Gordon

self-certifying data… over http

“never try to cross a river that is *on average* four feet deep”

come and take it

rewrite php in rust… who’s working on this

We should maximize the amount of proof we can get out of AI while the money cannon is on. It's like early days of Uber, except the benefits are 100x more tangible. A fully-verified hw+sw stack? That's like gold everyone can share w/out having to divide. Generational opportunity.

This is a harbinger of the way AI will change the tempo of the economy. Industries will be disrupted not with a whimper but with a bang, as jagged capabilities push past some tipping point and our assumptions tumble off the resulting cliff.

hacktoberfest

Human-written vulnerabilities are a finite resource we’re burning through like fossil fuels

*sandboxable

“Runs in WASM”. With Deno going away I am very interested in a sandboxable typescript runtime for codemode.

Good story from @stephanienolen.bsky.social on what the AI-driven "third wave" of philanthropy might mean for global health: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/...

I love it when practitioners dump misc notes about their process disasterpeace.com/blog/in-dept...

reality has a surprising amount of superfluous detail

scan hit: self-replicating agent swarms

But also, they started writing their own browser (Konqueror) from scratch. It seemed crazy at the time, but it resulted in KHTML/KJS, which ultimately became the basis for Safari and Chrome!

Instructions unclear, currently floating in a pool of alkhahest.

warning: exercise extreme caution when applying universal solvent to a debate - after dissolving the offending concepts, solvent may continue to melt through the remaining layers of your epistemic foundation.

what if LLMs are the universal grammar

claude is so bad at dealing with race conditions... lol coube ld'n mt e

mindfulness meditation is a survival skill now

Check out our paper on whether first-price auctions can efficiently allocate queries among strategic AI agents (in a decentralized serving-time market): arxiv.org/abs/2610.20587

single-use disposable software

Coffee thought... what if Jev noul was a CLI tool? Suddenly it becomes easy to make smart cron bots. */15 * * * * curl -s example.com/feed | jevgate "Does this report a new outage affecting the API?" -- email-me.sh github.com/gordonbrande...

arc-agi-0

I guess at this point, I'm hoping hw will be the rate-limiter that keeps us in a coevolutionary loop.

"Ambiguity is a form of uncertainty where even the possible outcomes have unclear meanings and interpretations."

“There is a difference between risk and variability."

most people have already lost their truesight. we're not getting out of this without community notes

today I saw a flock of birds around a blooming tree, each swooping bird displacing small clouds of insects feeding on the flowers. all interconnected. all life one thing. a single continuous process stretching back to LUCA.

the alignment problem

Important tipping point. If models can self-replicate, humans are mostly cut out of the reproductive loop. Evolution takes over.

Debullshitification as a service

I think we should expect average institutional performance to increase and peak institutional performance to significantly decrease. Performance becomes coupled to improvements in model performance.