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The Next Parameter Golf Run
May 13, 2026
If I ran Parameter Golf again, I would spend less time chasing cleverness and more time making the bottleneck visible earlier.
Read more →Agents As Lab Infrastructure
May 13, 2026
Coding agents were most useful when I stopped treating them as geniuses and started treating them as structured lab infrastructure.
Read more →What Tiny Transformers Punish
May 13, 2026
A small transformer under a byte budget makes comfortable architecture defaults feel expensive.
Read more →Learning The Parameter Golf Game Board
May 13, 2026
The first useful lesson was that Parameter Golf is not scored on vibes. It is scored on a very specific artefact pipeline.
Read more →The 16MB Bet
May 13, 2026
I studied Parameter Golf because I wanted a real constraint to force me past surface-level transformer knowledge.
Read more →The Hardest Chat Bugs Were Software Bugs
May 12, 2026
I thought the model was failing. Most of the time, the harness around it was.
Read more →When Search Is Not Enough
May 11, 2026
Fast retrieval found candidate sources. The next problem was deciding which sources should travel together.
Read more →The First Rule of AI Latency Is Measuring the Wait
May 9, 2026
My chat worked, but it felt broken. The fix started with measuring the wait users actually felt.
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