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Why Magnetos

On the role of magnetos in aircraft ignition systems. »

Schedule Recurring Calls With Your Far-Away Friends

An idea for how to stay in touch with friends you don’t otherwise see often. »

Fifty Bits of Career Advice

Fifty bits of career advice, particularly aimed at interns & early-career engineers. »

The Agency Gap

Reflections on Ben Kuhn’s “Impact, agency, and taste”. »

When Red Buttons Aren’t Enough

A review of the June 12, 2025 GCP outage postmortem. »

Why Developer Tools?

Discussing the value proposition for one’s career of internal developer tools. »

The Models Want to Reason

A scan of recent research papers which discuss novel approaches to training reasoning models. »

How I Use AI: Early 2025

A snapshot of the current AI tools & techniques I’ve found useful. »

AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back

On developing an involuntary reflex for spotting AI slop »

Chain of Continuous Thoughts

LLMs which use continuous representations for reasoning steps. »

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