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Apple Says Reasoning Models Can't Reason. I'm Not Convinced.

Last week, Apple released a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking, making the bold claim that LRMs (Large Reasoning Models, their acronym for Chain-of-Thought models) "fail to….........

~2025-06-09

I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

A few days ago, my CTO Chris shared Cloudflare's open-sourced OAuth 2.1 library that was almost entirely written by Claude. What caught my attention wasn't just the technical….........

~2025-06-06

Some Words on LLMs

This past week, GitHub announced CoPilot X, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Plugins, and Runway announced their text-to-video Gen-2 model. I’m scared. Terrified, even. Last night I smoked….........

~2023-04-09

Crypto for Gen Z’s Parents #1

One of my best friends has tasked me with explaining crypto to her mom. I’m not joking: This’ll be fun. Time to explain crypto to a millennials’ mom. An analogy is like an….........

~2022-06-10

The Cost of Crohn’s

Last March, weeks after my 22nd birthday, I was diagnosed with Indeterminate IBD. Which is a fancy way of saying they couldn’t tell if it was Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis. The….........

~2022-05-13