Armin Ronacher and Ben Vinegar had me on State of Agentic Coding to talk about the curiosity test, DHH coming around, durable agents, a Lisp you program by talking to it, and why the labs cannot afford to fail.

I have to say, Peter Steinberg (aka lobster man) is absolutely brilliant.

All right, I'm going to open up a history lesson

Josh Wulf and I talked loop engineering for four episodes. The models stopped being the constraint a long time ago; what's left is vision, verification and agency. Delete your skill packs, put the whole system under test, and revisit everything that used to be hard.

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, and if you care about security you should seriously consider them.

Here's something I've been meaning to write up

I don't know if you've noticed yet, but

It's kind of strange seeing all these discussions about software

Forty years of computing was designed around humans as the reader, writer and operator. On AI21's YAAP podcast I argued that's no longer a design goal, and what that means for programming languages.

One of the original promises of a personal computer was that the