Category:Technology
All the articles in the category "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.
Debugging Whole-House Bluetooth: What I Learned from OpenComm, Multipoint, and a Raspberry Pi
My open-ear headset kept dropping when I walked away from the Mac. After testing power classes, multipoint, and codecs, the fix was architectural: a Raspberry Pi as a remote Bluetooth endpoint on the home network.
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.
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.
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.