Tag:technology
All the articles with the tag "technology".
Is curing disease really a software problem?
Moderna's personalised cancer vaccine just passed its first Phase 3 trial, and Elon Musk called mRNA a software problem. As an engineer, I find the analogy half right, and the half that is wrong is the interesting part.
How do you evaluate an AI employee?
You can't watch an agent work, and its report sounds equally confident whether it is right or wrong. So stop grading the report and start grading the artifact.
You can't predict how hard a bug will be
Features can be estimated. Bugs can't, because a bug's difficulty is the depth of a wrong assumption you haven't found yet. So stop estimating and start drilling.
Your grader is rejecting right answers
A paper on step-level math verification found that LLM graders reject most valid solutions that don't look like the textbook one. If you use a model to check another model, measure the checker on its own.
LLMs are too positive. Ask for the veto.
Language models are trained to agree with you, so stop asking them for approval and start asking them to kill your idea.
老人修仙传: A Cultivation Simulation Game for Learning Chinese
A small in-browser game inspired by 凡人修仙传 — a life-simulation where you cultivate from a hundred-year-old man all the way to godhood. Speak or type the right Chinese words to unlock each episode, and connect your voice with fellow cultivators in a shared room.
The Constant Reasoning Token
A near-future story about a paper arguing that a single agent with N reasoning tokens matches a multi-agent system given the same budget — and what that finding means for the Knowledge Verification Agency that now employs most of humanity.
The T9 Typing Challenge: Remember When This Was Hard?
A T9 phone typing game embedded right here — because sometimes you need to feel your fingers struggle before you can appreciate how good life already is.
When Stripe "Changed" My Price from $43.50 to $4.00
A debugging story where a browser extension made Stripe's dashboard hide part of a price, turning $43.50 into what looked like $4.00.
消失的草稿纸：零号节点的玄机
一个程序员在凌晨三点的实验室中陷入梦境，与旧日同窗重逢，在草稿纸上画出了权限管理的终极解法，并在梦境与现实的交界处实现了'一键部署'的奇迹。