March 27, 2026
Friday, March 27th, 2026
Inspiration
CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering
The Large Hadron Collider generates petabytes of collision data per second — far too much to store. Instead of sending everything to the cloud, CERN burns tiny AI models directly into silicon chips that sit at the detector edge, making instant decisions about what to keep and what to discard. These models are small enough to be permanent hardware. They don't run on GPUs or in data centers — they run in the chip, at the speed of physics, before the data even has a chance to exist elsewhere. The intelligence isn't in the cloud. It's at the edge of the event itself.
Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
Stanford research making a simple but profound argument: the value of an AI agent isn't in how well it manages files, but in how capably it acts in the world on your behalf. The filesystem is infrastructure. The agent is the product. We spend too much time making the infrastructure better and not enough time making the agent actually do hard things. The filesystem doesn't matter. What does the agent accomplish while you're asleep?
Make macOS consistently bad unironically
An essay arguing that Apple's inconsistency isn't a bug — it's a feature of a product designed for people who want a computer to work rather than a platform to optimize. The argument is less about macOS specifically and more about the philosophy of picking a lane and staying in it. Accept the tradeoffs. Stop fighting the machine you chose. There is something quietly wise in that, even if you don't use a Mac. Consistency isn't always the same as quality.