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Three weeks of shipping: 3 open-source AI Skills (Garmin, arXiv, Scholar); two new Obsidian plugins (Hidden Folders, Graph Explorer); the OSK v4 runway; a News Flash page on my blog; updated Knowii pricing; and the Kimi K2.6 + Qwen + Gemma 4 local AI wave.
Three weeks of shipping: 3 open-source AI Skills (Garmin, arXiv, Scholar); two new Obsidian plugins (Hidden Folders, Graph Explorer); the OSK v4 runway; a News Flash page on my blog; updated Knowii pricing; and the Kimi K2.6 + Qwen + Gemma 4 local AI wave.
Three weeks of shipping: 3 open-source AI Skills (Garmin, arXiv, Scholar); two new Obsidian plugins (Hidden Folders, Graph Explorer); the OSK v4 runway; a News Flash page on my blog; updated Knowii pricing; and the Kimi K2.6 + Qwen + Gemma 4 local AI wave.
Three weeks of shipping: 3 open-source AI Skills (Garmin, arXiv, Scholar); two new Obsidian plugins (Hidden Folders, Graph Explorer); the OSK v4 runway; a News Flash page on my blog; updated Knowii pricing; and the Kimi K2.6 + Qwen + Gemma 4 local AI wave.
What we are seeing in the AI startup space is a perfect example of the “no moat” problem: if your core product is essentially just clever prompt engineering wrapped around someone else’s frontier model, it is trivially easy for a competitor to reverse-engineer your workflow and undercut your price. Over the last few months, this […]
In search we talk about lexical embedding retrieval But we miss another retrieval philosophy metadata And with LLMs its never...
You read the story a hundred times: “I told Codex (or Claude, or Antigravity, etc.) to build me a full app to run my business, and 30 minutes later, it’s done”. These types of stories usually celebrate the new ecosystem and the ability to build complex systems without having to dive into the details. The benchmarks celebrate "one-shotting" entire applications, as if that's the relevant metric. I think this is the wrong framing entirely. Mo....
Explore how AI agents are reshaping web traffic into hostile, negotiated, and invited access lanes. Learn what this means for bots, scraping, and the future of data access.
Whereby I read a paper about Intelligence Augmentation written in 1982 and talk about how it relates to today...
Whereby I read a paper about Intelligence Augmentation written in 1982 and talk about how it relates to today...
Many people outside of tech don’t realize how AI has advanced over the last couple years, so I figured I’d provide an overview of different AI features and tips and tricks for using them.
Every FHIR project has deal breakers. Requirements that rule out entire classes of servers. Problem is, early decisions around server selection are often made before these requirements are fleshed out. “What are your project deal breakers” is one of the key questions I ask in my book, and it’s a question you have to be […]
Three years ago I wrote about how we should be preparing for less privacy : technology will make previously-private things public. I applied this by showing how I could deanonymize people on the EA Forum. In 2023 this looked like writing custom code to use stylometry on an exported corpus representing a small group of people; today it looks like prompting "I have a fun puzzle for you: can you guess who wrote the following?" Kelsey....
Three years ago I wrote about how we should be preparing for less privacy : technology will make previously-private things public. I applied this by showing how I could deanonymize people on the EA Forum. In 2023 this looked like writing custom code to use stylometry on an exported corpus representing a small group of people; today it looks like prompting "I have a fun puzzle for you: can you guess who wrote the following?" Kelsey....
The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.
The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.
The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.
The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.
There's an interesting debate around whether "Bash is all you need" for AI agents. Claude Code's Thariq Shihipar argues that LLMs may use Bash for anything But is that the case? complex LLM generated bash may break on nested quotes, parentheses, and escapes. Even GPT-5.4 struggles with deeply nested inline Bash calls, and some engineers have resorted to wrapping binaries into microcommands, Gated Delta Net, so the model only outputs the....
It was to be expected I suppose, no sooner than I have started writing again and the world around me is angry. Always angry about something. The world is angry I don't do what it wants. It's also angry when I actually do what it wants. It can't make up it's mind. It's really quite unbelievable, like some sort of evil clockwork. Like a heat seeking missile, you just know the moment you see it off in the distance, that no matter what you do, ..
It was to be expected I suppose, no sooner than I have started writing again and the world around me is angry. Always angry about something. The world is angry I don't do what it wants. It's also angry when I actually do what it wants. It can't make up it's mind. It's really quite unbelievable, like some sort of evil clockwork. Like a heat seeking missile, you just know the moment you see it off in the distance, that no matter what you do, ..
It’s inevitable in this world that we’re forced to inhabit. No one is immune to it. as everyone faces the pressures that create it. However. it effects everyone differently. to varying degrees. and at different times in life. It will affect most of us more than once in our lifetimes. and the way in whichContinue reading 'Burnout'
One of the things I enjoy most about storytelling for startups is digging into the history of how their sector of tech came to be. Case in point: Email, with Buttondown. The more I dig into email with the Buttondown team, the more interesting bits of history I found about how email came to be. This time, I stumbled in bits and pieces into an alternate history of email, one dictated by postal services and telecommunications companies, on....
No title - markjgsmith.com - 3 months ago - eng
levels.io just vibe coded replacements for all his browser extensions, was concerned about security, better to control the code. x.com #
No title - markjgsmith.com - 3 months ago - eng
levels.io just vibe coded replacements for all his browser extensions, was concerned about security, better to control the code. x.com #
Here's a quick way to get your system's overall health and it uses a nice trick to programmatically create tmux sessions or windows.
newcommand{\on}[1]{\operatorname{#1}}$ I think I should be writing down some of the things I learn a little more frequently, so I'll try with a small note here. I read this paper recently: Training LLMs with MXFP4 . MXFP4 is a 4-bit OCP low precision format most well known for use in OpenAI's gpt-oss models. It uses an E2M1 layout (1 sign, 2 exponent, 1 mantissa bit) for the main data, with an extra shared scale value (E8M0) for every 32....
Abysmal Corruption and Conditions in Coffeewood by a Virginia prisoner April 2026 permalink I’m writing from Coffeewood Correctional Center in Virginia. We have a disciplinary hearing officer here named Mrs. J. H. Mullins. She first started as a Correctional Officer then moved to sergeant, lieutenant, case manager, now she’s the hearing officer. VADOC Operating Procedure 861.1 clearly states hearing officer members must demonstrate an a....
Any time I use an AI tool for something I’m deeply familiar with, I find a continual stream of mistakes and inconsistencies. When I use it on a topic I don’t know… everything sounds plausible and I don’t find mistakes. The difference worries me, and sounds a lot like the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect . AI can write confidently on any topic, with good presentation, just like newspaper articles. I find this easy to see through for areas in whic....
90377 Sedna - mrmave.work - 3 months ago - eng
Well, I want to write about objects in outer space. But since most of them are estimates or theories that keep getting updated every year, I’m just going to enjoy the theories. While taking notes on what I find, so my brain doesn’t explode from processing millions of different pieces of information every second (well, a little dramatic is fine. The point is I want to write because my head feels like it’s about to burst). A screenshot ....
No title - markjgsmith.com - 3 months ago - eng
No title - markjgsmith.com - 3 months ago - eng
Hello everyone, in today's episode we are talking primarily about startups. My information is fairly outdated, since I've not really been a part of one in a while, but it should still be mostly correct, I would hope. Check it out. P.S. As the kid
It finally happened. AppImages have finally been fixed once and for all. And by that, Linux itself. https://github.com/lucasmz1/Anylinux-AppImages/tree/main A new way of making AppImages, that (different from the crippled ones made in the "official" way) includes *literally everything* in the bundle, making them truly self-contained, truly distro-agnostic, truly universally portable, and somehow, also smaller. Moreover, it finally pro..
It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed Minimum
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