Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (11 minute read)
This dev collaboratively reverse-engineered Apple's M4 Neural Engine (ANE), bypassing CoreML to directly program the hardware and understand its undocumented architecture. They successfully mapped the software stack, discovered private APIs, cracked the binary format, and developed a method for direct compilation and execution on the ANE.
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How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (15 minute read)
This dev built a custom voice agent from scratch that achieved sub-500ms latency, outperforming off-the-shelf platforms. Voice agents are fundamentally an orchestration challenge, requiring real-time coordination of Speech-to-Text (STT), Large Language Models (LLM), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) with precise turn-taking logic. Some optimizations he made included pipelining the agent's response, aggressively canceling in-flight generation during user interruptions, selecting LLMs with fast time-to-first-token (like Groq), and making sure all services are geographically co-located.
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How I run 4–8 parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs (14 minute read)
A lightweight system using tmux, Markdown-based Feature Designs (FDs), and custom slash commands is described in this article to run 4-8 parallel coding agents. FDs serve as detailed specs of problems, solutions, implementation plans, and verification steps, which agents like Planners, Workers, and PMs use for design, implementation, and backlog management. The system tracks FDs through an 8-stage lifecycle.
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Go is the Best Language for AI Agents (12 minute read)
Go is the best language for developing AI agents. Go's compiled nature, with its strong typing and faster compilation than alternatives like Rust, allows AI agents to iterate quickly and produce syntactically correct code.
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Developing Taste (3 minute read)
Now that AI lets anyone ship working software, the real differentiator is taste: how a product looks, feels, and flows. Taste isn't just personal preference but a trainable instinct, and boils it down to three things: immerse yourself in great work, analyze why something feels good instead of just reacting, and keep practicing even when your output doesn't match your standards yet.
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Giggles (GitHub Repo)
Giggles is a batteries-included React framework designed for building rich terminal user interface (TUI) applications. It makes development easier by handling essential plumbing like focus, input routing, screen navigation, and theming out of the box.
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LLMs Can Now Figure Out Who's Behind Any Pseudonym — For Just $4 (7 minute read)
Researchers have found that LLM agents can effectively deanonymize pseudonymous online accounts at scale for just $1-4 per person. This capability breaks the long-held assumption that posting under a pseudonym offers privacy protection. The technique uses a four-stage LLM pipeline (ESRC) that extracts identity-relevant features from unstructured text, embeds them, and uses advanced reasoning to match profiles across various platforms.
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Is AI Killing Software Engineering Jobs? (7 minute read)
AI is not eliminating software engineering jobs. Rather, the job market shifts are due to economic factors, specifically excessive hiring during the pandemic due to low interest rates, followed by sharp interest rate increases that began in early 2022.
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The Architecture Behind Open-Source LLMs (10 minute read)
Open-weight LLMs are converging on Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) transformer architectures, but primarily differentiate through strategies in attention mechanisms, expert sparsity, and increasingly varied post-training methodologies.
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Git's Magic Files (10 minute read)
This article explains various committed "magic files" and conventions within a repository, such as `.gitignore` and `.gitattributes`, and how they control Git's behavior.
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