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- How huge AI models fit, remember, and respondSee how attention, compact memory, sparse experts, and GPU teamwork make large models practical to run.
- Building with Jev: use cases and implementation architecturesHow to put a fast decision model inside search, browser agents, model routing, clipping, smart paste, and graph exploration, with API examples and GLiNER pairings.
- Transformer basics: prefill, decode, and the KV cacheFollow a prompt through token embeddings, hidden states, attention, and the KV cache. Then see how a text embedding is a different output.
- Jev and System One modelsWhy Jev can make decision-heavy software much faster and cheaper, how shared prefill and decision training work, and what people are building with it.
- Multi-agent systems scale thought in parallelNotes from Noam Brown's interview with Dwarkesh Patel: several agents can finish a task sooner by splitting the work, at the cost of more total compute.
- Durable execution and atomic executionA queue retries the job. A durable workflow remembers its progress. A transaction commits related changes together.
- Speculative decodingA small model guesses a few tokens ahead. A large model checks them together, keeps the good guesses, and fixes the first bad one.
- Consistent hashingModulo hashing can remap keys across the cluster. A hash ring limits the change to the token ranges whose owners changed.
- Compound Engineering: My Self-Improving Remote Agent SetupHow Slack and Hermes give me 24/7 remote agents that learn from me, from others, and from their own work.
- How Text Embedding Models Are Trained and ServedA visual, technical guide to how modern text embedding models turn language into vectors: transformer encoders, pooling, contrastive training, hard negatives, backpropagation, dimensionality, and production inference.
- Vision-Action Transformers vs. VLA vs. World-Action ModelsThe practical difference is what conditions the robot policy and what it is trained to predict: actions, language-conditioned actions, or actions plus future world states.
- AI Won't End Software Engineering. It will Make More of Them!The important effect of coding agents may not be fewer people building software. It may be that anyone with a desire, a question, or a frustration can enter the build, measure, learn loop.
- Why Wanting Something Too Badly Can Push It AwayA practical way to understand why insecurity-based desire can push away the exact thing you want.