Claude Code text output showing absolute gibberish.

Whoa. Looks like Claude just had a stroke.

A photo of the YouTube livestream on my TV of the Artemis II spacecraft on it's way to loop around the Moon. The craft is on the left and an oddly egg-shaped moon on the right.

I am totally addicted to this.

Two pigeons sitting on a window sill behind iron bars. Hence the title “jail birds”.

Jail birds.

After 12 months of doing exactly nothing, ØNTHR has improved infinitely.

Launching Nada 4.6 -- the world's first homeopathic frontier model. Trained on zero data. The less it knows, the smarter it gets.

0/0 = ∞

The math checks out.

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Looking up through the centre of an internal spiral staircase in a cream/white interior towards a blue skylight. Blog #0194: The Time Cost of How Is Zero Agentic coding pushes the implementation cost of software towards zero. The value shifts from how to build something towards why and what. But this is just the latest rung on a very old ladder.

Blog #0194: The Time Cost of How Is Zero
Agentic coding pushes the implementation cost of software towards zero and value shifts from how to build something towards why and what, the latest rung on a very old ladder.

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#blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #futureofwork

More stylised blue lines with white glowing orb spheres over a flowing digital background. Blog #0193: Learning and Dreaming Part 4 of 4. Cross-entropy loss, Adam optimizer, the training loop, and autoregressive sampling. The GPT learns and generates.

Blog #0193: Learning and Dreaming
Part 4 of 4. Cross-entropy loss, Adam optimiser, the training loop, and autoregressive sampling. The GPT learns and generates.

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#blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Blue, purple, and green stylised swirls on a dark background. Blog #0192: How Tokens Talk to Each Other Self-attention, multi-head projections, and KV caching — the core of the transformer

Blog #0192: How Tokens Talk to Each Other
Part 3 of 4. Self-attention, multi-head projections, and KV caching — the core of the transformer

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#blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Matrix-inspired green hieroglyphs on a dark background. Blog #0191: From Letters to Logits Part 2 of 4. Character-level tokenization, linear algebra, softmax, and the complete GPT architecture — all in pure Elixir.

Blog #0191: From Letters to Logits
Part 2 of 4. Character-level tokenization, linear algebra, softmax, and the complete GPT architecture — all in pure Elixir.

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#blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Stylised graph of blue connected nodes and lines on a dark background. Blog #0190: What If Numbers Could Remember? Part 1 of a 4-part series on building a GPT from scratch in Elixir. Autograd, computation graphs, and making numbers remember.

Blog #0190: What If Numbers Could Remember?
Part 1 of a 4-part series on building a GPT from scratch in Elixir. Autograd, computation graphs, and making numbers remember.

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#blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

An image of The Highlander from the 80s sci-fi fantasy film of the same name. Blog #0189: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Highlander Rule A simple rule with a pithy name turns out to be surprisingly effective at keeping agentic coding on the rails

Blog #0189: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Highlander Rule
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#blog #braingasm #agentic #ai #highlander

A greyscale picture of the head of The David by Michaelangelo. Blog #0188: On Knowing What Code to Throw Away Agentic coding has inverted the job — from knowing what to write, to knowing what to throw away

Blog #0188: On Knowing What Code to Throw Away
Agentic coding has inverted the job — from knowing what to write, to knowing what to throw away
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#blog #braingasm #agentic #ai

A grey wall with a pair of ominous looking security cameras. QFM108: Irresponsible Ai Reading List - March 2026

QFM108: Irresponsible Ai Reading List - March 2026
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#qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #irresponsibe #ai #machine #intelligence #genai #generative #ai

A person posting PostIt notes to a kanban-style project management board. QFM107: Engineering Leadership Reading List - March 2026

QFM107: Engineering Leadership Reading List - March 2026
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#qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #engineering #leadership #management #tech

Stylised purple streaks on a dark digital background. QFM106: Elixir Reading List - March 2026

QFM106: Elixir Reading List - March 2026
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#qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #elixir #software #beam

A stylised brain connected to circuits QFM105: Machine Intelligence Reading List - March 2026

QFM105: Machine Intelligence Reading List - March 2026
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#qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #machine #intelligence #ai

Ok, if anyone needs any more evidence that we're in the Whacky Timeline, here's Linux running in a 6mb PDF document: linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

Jazz Musician Reacts to Angine de Poitrine | What the... these DUDES! YouTube video by chris g

If you want a deeply musical explanation of whatever it is that is going on here, see this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zldH... which is _also_ excellent.

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Ok, so this is blowing up, but there's a very good reason: it's _so_ original and interesting and _different_. In a world increasingly overflowing with unoriginal slop, this is just flat out _great_: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

QFM{72,76,80,84,88,92,96,100} Irresponsible AI Reading Lists June 2025 — January 2026 Everything I found interesting about the irresponsible use of AI over the last 8 months

Apologies for being quiet over the last few months. Normal service has resumed.

QFM{72,76,80,84,88,92,96,100} Irresponsible AI Reading Lists 202506-January 202601: Everything I found interesting about the irresponsible use of AI over the last 8 months
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QFM{71,75,79,83,87,91,95,99} Engineering Leadership Reading Lists June 2025 — January 2026 Everything I found interesting about Engineering Leadership over the last 8 months

Apologies for being a bit quiet over the last few months. Normal service has resumed.

QFM{71,75,79,83,87,91,95,99} Engineering Leadership Reading Lists 202506 — 202601: Everything I found interesting about Engineering Leadership over the last 8 months
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QFM{70,74,78,82,86,90,94,98} Elixir Reading Lists June 2025 — January 2026 Everything I found interesting about the Elixir programming ecosystem over the last 8 months

Apologies for being a bit quiet with QFM posts recently. Normal service has resumed:

QFM{70,74,78,82,86,90,94,98} Elixir Reading Lists 202506 — 202601: Everything I found interesting about the Elixir programming ecosystem over the last 8 months
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QFM{69,73,77,81,85,89,93,97} Machine Intelligence Reading Lists June 2025 — January 2026 Everything I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently over the last 8 months

Apologies for being a bit quiet with QFM posts recently. Normal service has resumed:

QFM{69,73,77,81,85,89,93,97} Machine Intelligence Reading Lists 202501-202601: Everything I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently over the last 8 months
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Has anyone coined "GEN-eration" for the "Generative AI Generation"? If not, then I think I just did. 🤔

And this is an interesting (if slightly tech heavy and oblique) counterpoint:

Humanity's last programming language
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Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Well, this is quite the read:

“Something big is happening”
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A picture of a very well-organised workshop tool bench with all of the tools arranged in a set of hanging brackets behind the bench.

I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a few months, so this is a quick catch-up post: what I've been doing, what I've shipped, and where things are headed.

Blog #0187: A Few Things I've Been Working On
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The year "2025" rendered in a gold-ish translucent 3D font.

Over the year, I try to find something interesting to read and digest each week related to or at least adjacent to what I am currently working on. Here's the list for 2025.

Blog #0185: (Almost) 52 Things I Learned in 2025
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A path in the woods with a fork in the road, one direction has two tracks as if vehicles of some kind have gone down it, the other path is just a single walking trail.

Here's a simple framework for thinking about where we draw the line on AI autonomy, from spreadsheets to self-driving cars

Blog #0186: What We Let Machines Do
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A photo of the grounds of Nottingham Castle, UK with a large lit up hashtag saying #itsinnottingham.

Apparently, #itsinnottingham.

The Wyden Siren: Senator’s Cryptic CIA Letter Follows A Pattern That’s Never Been Wrong If you’ve been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years, you’ve likely learned to recognize a particular pattern. Senator Ron Wyden will o…

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