Simple steps toward a company brain.

A blog about software craft and quality

Impeccable creator Paul Bakaus shares lessons learned turning a coding harness into a design harness, building ambitious agent skills, getting compelling design from AI, keeping up with slop, and…

On the economics of doing great work.

The least a coding agent can do is show its work.

July 10, 2026 • 1 min read

On too much of a good thing.

The latest AI models have made it possible to go past text-based chats, and build what Andrej Karpathy argues is the pinnacle of AI UX: voice-in, visuals-out. In this talk, Forestwalk Labs…

What's the right behaviour when "try for free" ends?

On protecting agent-written codebases from incoherence.

Flashes of brilliance, and the tyranny of latency.

On getting uncomfortable.

Finding signal in the firehose.

Our next Infer AI event will feature developers from three very cool growth-stage companies: WealthSimple, Cresta, and Gumloop. Each will share some lessons…

On trading comfort for speed.

A little story about iterative experimentation.

Or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code.

On browsers, local classifiers, and Roger Rabbit.

Claude, Copilot, and making a good desktop app.

The CZI has acquired EvoScale, established the first 10,000 GPU cluster for bio research, open sourced the largest atlas of human cell types, and gone all in on AI x Bio for its 2nd decade.

Over the last two weeks at Forestwalk we’ve prototyped a realtime meeting notetaker agent. We think this could help teams get clarity faster, and ultimately have shorter and more useful meetings. If…

Distraction management in intense times.

Zoom’s arc from hero to hulk.