🗞️ unikernels were hard. key word: were. ghuntley.com/unikernels
unikernels were hard. key word: were.
Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is design debt...
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🗞️ if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced ghuntley.com/replaced/ What follows is advice for current employees and hiring managers on how to hire in 2026 to source AI-first candidates.
if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced
When Ralph was published last year, I sat on it. People who have been reading this blog for a while know this. I first came across the idea of loop engineering in early January last year, sat on it fo...
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🗞️ In this post, I share guidance for developer tooling companies and concrete advice on how to graduate from F-tier to S-tier. ghuntley.com/tier
--help on your CLI is all you need for LLM context until you don't.
Here's something I've been meaning to write up for a while. It's kind of late, but I'm going to lean into the whole MCP vs. CLI argument because I have a perspective others might find interesting. Wh...
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🗞️ an application in lisp you grow by talking to it Why is software built the way it is now, rather than grown through iterative use of LLMs? What if you could develop your application just by chatting with it? Live and interactive, with no compilation steps. ghuntley.com/lisp/
an application in lisp you grow by talking to it
It's kind of strange seeing all these discussions about software factories... and the like. It's also strange to see conversations about programming languages or claims that $language is best, as if t...
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People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... ghuntley.com/warfare/
AI as economic warfare
People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a fi...
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🗞️ a sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back ghuntley.com/rad
@ghuntley.com and I spent two hours nerding out about the future of software development and now my brain is brimming with new ideas and potential collabs!
fundamental skills you must have in 2026 as a SWE youtu.be/Jr2auYrBDA4?...
fundamental skills and knowledge you must have in 2026 for SWE
YouTube video by Geoffrey Huntley
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how to ralph from 1st principals from the creator of ralph (hi) youtu.be/4Nna09dG_c0?...
The Ralph Wiggum Loop from 1st principles (by the creator of Ralph)
YouTube video by Geoffrey Huntley
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Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-went-from-the-simpsons-to-the-biggest-name-in-ai-right-now
The future belongs to people who can just do things 💪 @ghuntley.com at #DDDAdelaide 2025 on guiding teams through software's biggest shift in 40 years: programming with LLMs. Help your team through their "expletive" moment and into growth 🚀✨
This is a very thoughtful piece by @ghuntley.com Think about the impact of large language models on open source. ghuntley.com/libraries/ Geoff speculates that we will increasingly no longer rely on open source because Li's language models are trained on all of it and can simply generate them.
what is the point of libraries now that you can just generate them?
It's a meme as accurate as time. The problem is that our digital infrastructure depends upon just some random guy in Nebraska. Open-source, by design, is not financially sustainable. Finding reliable...
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