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Flying on Thanksgiving

For the first time in my life, I'm traveling home for the holidays. I'm taking United Airlines flight 2091, SFO to ORD at 6am on Thanksgiving day. It's my most enjoyable travel….........

~2025-11-27

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