Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is the neutral and open foundation built on transparency, collaboration, and standardization to advance the public interest in agentic AI innovation.

I’m hanging out in Sydney with my esteemed co-author and co-conspirator Gene Kim today; we flew in to conduct Vibe Coding workshops and…

An alternate path for Staff+ engineers that optimizes for systems over spotlights and stewardship over fungibility.

tl:dr: Parenting and leadership is similar. Teach a man to fish, etc.

The following is adapted from a keynote talk I delivered at Config in May 2025. I've edited it slightly for clarity, but wanted to share these thoughts on craft, quality, and the choices we make as…

Modernize applications at scale with this new AI-powered service that learns your organization's patterns, automates transformations across repositories, and cuts execution time by up to 80% through…

I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at GopherCon US 2025 in New York. It goes into everything that happened at the intersection of Go and cryptography over the last…

Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments.

I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they…

Designer, builder, and visual storyteller. Now building Huxe. Previously led design on NotebookLM and contributed to Google AI projects like Gemini and Search. Also shoot photo/video for brands like…

A developer's guide to downloading and running LLMs on macOS, for experimentation and privacy.

Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025

I wrote earlier about my dream of developing “single-handedly” on an iPhone. Then, I wrote some more about it. The dream still lives strongly! I am now coding single-handedly in any language on my…

From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.

Servo was supposed to be Firefox's future. Now it's an independent effort to make a fast and secure web browser engine.

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

This app explains how language models transform text into meaningful representations through embeddings. It provides a visual guide to help you understand traditional and modern language model tech...

Reasoning, the process of devising and executing complex goal-oriented action sequences, remains a critical challenge in AI. Current large language models (LLMs) primarily employ Chain-of-Thought…

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A practical handbook for engineers building, optimizing, scaling and operating LLM inference systems in production.

Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners

Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requ...

In this post, we explore how Instagram has successfully scaled its algorithm to include over 1000 ML models without sacrificing recommendation quality or reliability.  We delve into the intricacies…

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation

Why splitting your codebase too early can quietly destroy your team’s velocity — and what to do instead. In a startup, your survival depends on how quickly you can iterate, ship features, and deliver…

Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.

An interview with researcher and SPACE author Brian Houck about proven strategies for driving AI adoption.

Personal website for some random tidbits I work on

Pydantic AI's MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored [two years ago](https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/pyodide-sandbox): using a…

Igor writes: "Our product is 15 years old, with a lot of legacy code and outdated technologies. Our engineers say that the minimum time they need to ship anything of real value (not just small…

Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.

There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI. Agents, memory, RAG, assistants—so many buzzwords! But the reality is, you don’t need fancy techniques or libraries to build…

Stanford professor John Ousterhout explains why thoughtful software design matters more than ever as AI tools transform coding practices and developer workflows.

Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?

How time-tested software engineering practices amplify the effectiveness of AI coding assistants.

Defining Agents, Why now, and why Agents are the biggest opportunity for AIEs

Learn how OpenAI created secure, user-friendly CIAM for their applications with Ory.

Presented by Ty Smith and Adam Huda (Uber) at DPE Summit 2024, an event developed and hosted by Gradle.

Optimize your README.md files to empower both human developers and AI coding assistants alike.

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies

Reviewing the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents in software development and their impact on skilled and less skilled developers.

Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.