Andrej Karpathy posted an incredible 2025 LLM Year in Review. It is a totally salient take (obviously, he's brilliant!) and mirrors a lot of my experiences in the trenches. I have a slightly different take on a point or two below. ⪼ Like Karpathy, I believe there is a ton of value for the application layer above LLMs. I think the model providers are making a generally useful brain, but its frozen in a moment and for now at least, we need prompt and context engineering, specialized tools, and verification for...

There are people in the industry and perhaps in your organization that have a lot of context. They have good judgment, they have reasonable design sense, they know a lot about your product, the market fit, the ideal customer profile. They understand the competitive landscape - who the different players are, what they're doing, where the opportunities lie. And on top of all that, they may also be high-end software developers. Recently, I was watching an interview with Terence Tao [1], who's an Australian-American...

I want to talk about a genuinely surprising personal engineering breakthrough I've experienced. Over the past 3 days, I challenged myself to experiment with a true AI-native development workflow based on the advancements I've observed over the last few months. I chose Cursor Ultra, Warp, superwhisper, Claude 4 Opus and a few other capable models for different purposes, and focused on creating the most comfortable and fluid experience possible. I'll provide my background so you can decide if this is relevant to...

I see so many people online questioning their pursuit of hard science or skills like software development in a post-LLM world. I want to share some thoughts on why I believe this concern, while understandable, misses the bigger picture.

With the end of any big project or game changing release, there is a time afterwards for necessary reflection. For Encamp, our Super Bowl is the reporting season that starts in January and runs through March. Next year is a biennial reporting year as well - our customer's obligations skyrocket in this period of time, and we're here to help. So, its time to prepare our team and technology for that expected growth - we've seen a 61% increase in facilities on platform this year and we absolutely expect that to...