Armin Ronacher

14 Sept 2026

Armin Ronacher

Interpreting Pangram

Yesterday David Sacks wrote a tweet and within a few minutes people did, what they usually do, and they asked Pangram if it was AI. And Pangram said it’s entirely AI generated . To which David replied that these AI detectors are bogus . Now

Armin Ronacher

7 Sept 2026

Armin Ronacher

Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up in t

Armin Ronacher

22 Aug 2026

Armin Ronacher

Fast and Hard Code

One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered fo

Armin Ronacher

19 Aug 2026

Armin Ronacher

What Is Reasoning

A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter see

Armin Ronacher

13 Jul 2026

Armin Ronacher

The Tower Keeps Rising

I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel. The story is one of pride and ambi

Armin Ronacher

4 Jul 2026

Armin Ronacher

Better Models: Worse Tools

A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small mode