REST is the largest API design prison out there, and GraphQL and MCP are mostly people building a second prison to avoid properly learning the first. There is not a single API design pattern to rule them all. You have 25 years of patterns laid down on top of the web to choose from. Pick your head…

Trappings of Individual API Patterns and the Benefits of a Diverse API Toolbox

One thing you see in a lot of the storytelling around APIs over the years is that people easily get trapped within the creative confines of a single API desi...

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Claude Code saved me from hours of tedious windows server set up yesterday. For every piece of code clean up I have to tackle..I love AI today.

So I joined the Chatham House “What are the financial markets telling us” event this evening. A few things stood out. US AI Datacenter build outs were being undermined by Chinese efficiency innovation. If you don’t need that much compute to run LLMs why build it?

I have a lot of builds on the go at the moment. Mostly things I need rather than fun things. Autonomous GPU scheduler, distribution discoverability scanner, what I actually want to work on is Solar Flare forecasting with deep learning. But I need a lot more data to play with.

Rate hike = IPO window shut. No wonder they were all panicking. AI safety pfff

It is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reasoner).

I so badly want an edit button on Bluesky.

Working on a product test and architecture for autonomous GPU scheduling at the moment. Every time I feel i have made progress I then think of another angle I haven’t validated enough or tested. But you just have to get something out the sort sometimes. Nothing beats live testing!

Well I am still a bit of a lopsided bullfrog from the surgery but will start to get back to my desk this coming week. Not bad given I was under the knife just over a week ago!

I’ve seen few posters / journalists actually doing the work of finding out the reality of Arday’s credentials, rather than confidently stating the racist trope that he was unqualified for his professorship at Cambridge… Worth reading @adsquires.bsky.social’s posts. @peterjukes.bsky.social

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Good thread. To add - (and I keep banging this drum) - the case is still quite weak that Cambridge (and Glasgow and Durham) even *did* recruit someone unqualified for the job given what they knew at the time, let alone that they did so because of his race / fictitious backstory / actual backstory

I am stuck in hospital at the moment and I can honestly saymy injuries and surgery wounds it’s bloody uncomfortable. What strikes me is the huge disparity between public and private. I am in a private hospital and I could not be more grateful. More money for the NHS!

Jason Arday found dead today. Regardless of the details there is no doubt that the horrific racism of Nathan Cofnas was an influencing factor. A total tragedy. Solidarity to all black and brown people everywhere today. A truly shocking case.

Well results from autonomous GPU scheduling on GenAI transformer architectures is so far 40% more efficient using RL. I can beat that if I can get hold of a dataset which isnt redacted I think. But that’s unlikely so I will run a product test next and work out how the architecture should look.

Ukraine has suffered one of the longest sustained bombardment campaigns in history – longer than Japan suffered in World War II – even if the intensity is lower.

Ukraine needs help against Russian missiles now. What more can allies do?

Recent air defence pledges won’t deliver interceptors for years. Europe could help now by providing fighter cover, or by delivering more offensive weapons. Will it act?

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I am busy on phase 2 of my RL workload management tool. So far struggling with datasets. Using the latest traces from Ali B Cloud. Part of the problem lies in how transformer architectures consume compute. Which added a complexity I hadn’t anticipated.

This is from 2016 but I hadn’t heard of it until now. WILD story. www.denverpost.com/2016/08/10/l...

Kansas home wound up with 600 million IP addresses and a world of trouble

The little Kansas house in the center of the country became the crossroads of the Internet, with unimaginable consequences.

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So the model providers have run out of training data and are buying up source code from old repos. Well this is a worry along with the book procuring and destroying for data ingestion which is routine. Our intellectual property is being undermined.

I love Scott Berkun's concept of “Rude Q&A” - having to answer the meanest, nastiest, but smartest questions about your company. Root out your weak areas so you start figuring out the answers.

Rude Q&A: The constructive devil’s advocate

Nothing clarifies things quite like a hyperactive, all-knowing, all-seeing, real asshole of a devil’s advocate beating the living crap out of you.

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I went to the Farnborough air show today. Some interesting presentations in the Spacetech event. How fragile gps and air traffic actually is, how space weather knocks out satellites and might crash the rail network! And NASA is building a moon base..

A great, detailed, guide on web scraping tools for investigations by David Weisz, who ran three different tests on seven different scrapers. His take: "I'm blown away by the progress scrapers have made over the past decade, particularly the Chrome extensions and AI tools."

No code, no budget: 7 web scrapers put to the test

Scraping no longer demands coding skills or a big budget. Here's how seven options held up across three real-world tests.

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'A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.' The Pacific Ocean is running a fever. Why that’s an ominous sign. - by Ben Noll #climate #weather www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

The Pacific Ocean is running a fever. Why that’s an ominous sign.

A marine heat wave covering an area eight times the size of the United States could soon fuel serious storms and extreme heat.

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Stuck in the most tedious of small business tasks this week. Database and data mail systems & servers migration. I have put it off for years it’s so painful and dull. If I get done with it by end of day tomorrow I may reward myself with a salted pretzel from Waitrose just to celebrate.

“Theres a talent shortage! We can’t hire enough FDE’s” well perhaps let’s actually upskill the existing staff then?? Latest hype and whatdoyaknow… can’t find enough people with 10+ years experience for a technology thats only a couple of years old.. 🤦‍♀️

I’m so pleased to tell you that we’re doing one final watchalong of THE LAST CLASS, the documentary about my final semester of teaching. It will be next Wednesday, July 8 at 5:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 p.m. ET. Join me? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/one-night-only-join-us-live-on-july

Very early morning dog walk north east coast

"Do you know what’s great about workflows? They’re predictable. You understand what makes them succeed or fail. What’s not so great is that when you add non-predictable nodes, you lose the ability to explain their behavior." apichangelog.substack.com/p/putting-th...

Putting the Brake on Autonomous API Workflows

Why the most sophisticated workflows still need a human-in-the-loop to succeed.

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I just saw a job ad for a CTO who had done the whole pre-seed to multi $$$ exit journey which must be an exit of an AI/ML company… idk maybe not a lot of those folks around?? And why look outside of the US anyway?

Lilian Weng: 'Scaling Laws, Carefully.' Training loss L follows a power-law over model size N, dataset size D, and compute C — straight line on a log-log plot. The title's 'carefully' matters. The debate isn't whether scaling laws exist. It's which regime we're in.

This will just compound the oncoming AI backlash. People remember these things, long after the period of their popularity has passed. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

Software engineers are questioning their professions as they're forced to wade through and fix mountains of sloppy AI code.

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the fuck? the bill will mandate GPS transponders ON GPUs. so it will shut itself off if it can't snitch.

Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support

Half a dozen companies have come out in support of the Chip Security Act, which would require location-tracking mechanisms for America’s most advanced computing chips.

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