Knowledge Is Not Moral. Action Is.
A rough argument against treating dangerous knowledge as morally contaminated, and why AI safety should focus on capability, context, incentives, and access rather than performative ignorance.
Blog
This blog contains rambly, half-formed ideas that I will change and go back on often.
The Winner Takes All
Every multi-faction state that holds together is running one of two programs: making domination too expensive, or just telling the strong to behave. Only the first one survives a recession.
The World Is a Padded Cell
I rented a car in Italy that physically fought me for the right to make a correct decision. The car is not the point. The point is that no one is a trusted adult anymore.
This Car Has Wheels
Most dating discourse is people listing minimum-viable-adult traits as if they were premium features. Loyalty is not a selling point. The brakes are supposed to work.
A council for your coding agent.
Fusing several LLMs into one answer is a great idea that quietly breaks any agent using tools. Here's the local router I built to get multi-model reasoning into agentic coding anyway: @dymoo/fusion.
I trained my own coding model. My ruler was bent.
I distilled frontier models into a 12B that runs on one Mac and genuinely codes: activity 16% → 37%, honestly. Then came the real lesson: half the campaign was spent discovering that my measurements, not my model, were broken.
Getting LLMs to understand videos and audio.
A practical MCP server that converts audio, video, and images into the two things LLMs actually accept: text and images.
A zero trust future for identity on the internet
the current approach to age verification is catastrophically broken. here's what it should look like.
Taste can't be bought, and beauty is disappearing
money can buy the look of taste. it cannot buy the eye.
Double Ended Hell
Conditions are harder. People are less prepared than ever to deal with them.
Rust for the Agentic Era
Why Rust is quietly becoming the perfect language for AI-assisted development
Dunning-Kruger as a Service
LLMs haven't made people smarter. They've made people 30% informed and 100% confident.
We've Got Cloudflare at Home
Self-hosting securely using Caddy on an OVH VPS as a jumpbox with WireGuard tunnel to home network
Fuck LLMs, Embedding Models Are the Best Part of the AI Revolution
While everyone obsesses over chatbots, the real AI revolution is happening quietly with embedding models - cheap, reliable, and actually useful.
Failure to launch and the maturity crisis
It's cool to be a toddler now
Plastic shit
On Temu, Amazon Haul, and why overconsumption is a spiritual problem.
On private schooling, credentialism and geo-arbitrage
Thoughts on private schooling, university value, and a geo-arbitrage plan for raising children.
Struggling with moderation? How about you try: moderation?
A draft arguing that people who struggle with moderation often need elimination, not moderation advice.
Epistemic noise
On the people and systems making it harder to understand the world.
Hope we're ready for western sweatshops
On Vivek Ramaswamy's critique of American work culture and why sweatshop mentality isn't the answer.
Core truths about men's fashion
Practical advice on fit, quality, and social signalling in men's style.
Everything I Was Lied To About NodeJS Came True With Elixir
Elixir delivers on everything Node.js promised but failed to achieve.
Clean Code And Other Stupid Ideas Pushed By Non-Programmers
Introducing the Rider and Elephant Software Architecture
Microservices versus monoliths discussion is a false dichotomy.