I gave a talk at React Native Connection on how AI is changing how we build software. You can download the slides here.

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LLaMa Now Goes Faster on CPUs Incredible sorcery. LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs Code Generation on HumanEval Top two Agents for Code Generation use Testing or Debugging at their core. We empirically show that LDB significantly improves code generation accuracy and achieves state-of-the-art performance in program debugging, by segmenting

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the “design engineer” will evolve to represent the blurring lines between design and code and more of us will become one it will be both a designer than can now code thanks to AI and an engineer that can now design because of AI https://t.co/XnWGtY6eWQ — jordan singer

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I wrote about Universal Apps for my Computer Science dissertation back in 2016. One codebase running that could create iOS, Android and Web Apps. Last year I had a conversation with a CTO of a tier-1 startup in London and told him that I was optimistic about the progress on

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Sometime into Yonder I discovered that there was a name for the role I was playing. There's the typical Manager, mainly focused on people management, and there's the Individual Contributor (IC), mainly focused on writing code. Then I learnt that there's the Tech Lead

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Duolingo Delight "A few years ago, we started a team called ✨ Delight ✨. Delight was not tasked with improving our metrics; its purpose was to make the app more delightful. This can be anything from: 💥Animating the explosions that appear when you answer a hard question. 🐝Satisfying haptic feedback throughout

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40 years of programming Take care of yourself. Sleep. Eat. Exercise. Rest. Relax. Take care of other people, as best you can. People are important. Software is just fun. Link Hugo Barra on Vision Pro "Back in my Oculus days, I used to semi-seriously joke with our team (and

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Alan Kay UCLA Kaparthy on training as baby sitting Nice read on the rarely-discussed-in-the-open difficulties of training LLMs. Mature companies have dedicated teams maintaining the clusters. At scale, clusters leave the realm of engineering and become a lot more biological, hence e.g. teams dedicated to "hardware health"

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Personal Notes to help AI know you Kaparthy uses Obsidian "This is what software could be: private, secure, delightful, free of dark patterns, fully aligned with the user, where you retain full control and ownership of your data in simple, universal formats, and where tools can be extended and

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WebKit switching to Skia for 2D graphics engine How do the words you're reading right now appear on your screen? Skia is a graphics engine that powers both Chrome and Android, software running behind the scenes that billions of people around the world interact with but have probably

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The important parts of Open Source Amazing story of how a math teacher got involved into an open source project. PARC I came across this blog post from PARC on their 40th anniversary in 2010, and realised I still have a bit of a blind spot in access to information

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"Ouroboros, emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and Greece represented with its tail in its mouth, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. A gnostic and alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle

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Matt Mullenweg Matt co-founded WordPress which powers about 1/3 of the entire internet, and then later created Automattic which is the for-profit company he describes as a "Digital Berkshire Berkshire" buying up companies like Tumblr and many others. Matt published his Thoughts on Tech Employment last week

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A recent graduate got in contact about whether Entrepreneur First is worth it, and after a phone call talking them through it they gave me some feedback on my earlier post How to build an app. Here's why I told a student to go watch Kung Fu Panda.

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Vision Pro Hacker News Discussion - Apple Vision Pro I worked at Motorola when the iPhone came out. Every single engineer knew this thing would blow everything else out of the water. It was one of the largest leaps in consumer tech devices ever. I assure you the Vision Pro

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Someone just asked me what my plan was so figured I better write something down. I'm currently helping Yonder go from product people love to scalable business - "The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets

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I was talking to a student interested in startups and shared some stories about how I’d ended up joining Yonder. The enthusiasm and energy of the student reminded me of the time I was 19 and a student looking for a job. London didn’t have many good startups

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We've had over a decade of software eating the world and embedding itself within all forms of our daily lives. AI is obviously going to drastically reduce the current expertise required to build software. While we've seen tools like Webflow or Squarespace enable anyone to create

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