Writing
Notes from the bench — technology, AI, and the engineering behind the systems in this archive. Written as I go.
The June 2026 model wave — and why I still build for portability
Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5, Claude as an iPhone option — and an export-control order that pulled two frontier models overnight. A senior engineer's case for never hard-wiring your product to one model.
Who's actually funding AI in 2026 — and what it means if you're not OpenAI
Q1 2026 venture funding hit a record $300B, sovereign wealth funds now write the mega-checks, and capital is overheating in frontier AI while cooling almost everywhere else. A working engineer's read on the bifurcation.
AWS shipped agents that fix your CVEs. The hard part isn't the autonomy.
At AWS Summit New York 2026, Amazon unveiled agents that triage email and remediate security risks while trying to keep humans in control. The interesting engineering is in the guardrails, not the autonomy — and that's the part most teams skip.