Walter van der Giessen
Software engineering & AI
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade.
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I Wanted spawn() for JavaScript Threads
I wanted server-side JavaScript threads to start with spawn(). The missing piece turned out to be a carefully placed eval().
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Making My Rust Program Space-Flight Ready
A crate called hugebool ships a 16-byte radiation-hardened boolean. I took the idea further: reads that repair themselves, majority voting for every type, and benchmarks.
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Rust Is a Harness
Why Rust will be the language of LLMs. Syntax ergonomics are a depreciating asset while compile-time guarantees are gaining value.