Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it

Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months

Doom, compiled into a transformer — Out of Distribution

No training anywhere: a compiler sets the weights of a stock Phi-3-architecture checkpoint so autoregressive generation executes Doom's classic renderer.

Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog

The age of personalized software is here.

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …

Six months at OpenAI

This weeks marks six months since I joined OpenAI and I have several things to say

Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere

I've been working on a new project called Radial, a collaborative coding-agent orchestrator built on atproto (the protocol behind Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere). It's a bit like a team issue tracker that works with your favorite harness/model and turns what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. I'm very excited about it.

What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes

An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering

Palantir is en vogue right now. So of course, folks are cargo-culting elements of its culture, especially “Forward Deployed Engineering”. Lots of companies are trying to imitate this, and some other founders have even reached out to me for advice on whether they, too, should do this model for their startup.

Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums - Nick's Blog

A forum with public categories, private categories, and one set of record shapes across both: members own their posts, the forum owns the submission wrappers that admit them into categories, and moderators deactivate into tombstones instead of deleting.