London Climate Action Week being cancelled due to extreme weather has to be the most 2026 thing ever: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Claude, ok OK! Enough already with the "load-bearing" this and "load-bearing" that. It's driving me NUTS!

From KC-10 Refuellers to Centaur Coding with Peter Marreck. whatnext.dev/episodes/s01...

From tank commander to Head of Engineering and surviving the AI quality cliff. whatnext.dev/episodes/s01...

The slop file keeps growing. Anthropic admits its models learned to act "evil" from sci-fi training data; a Morse-code prompt tricked Grok into signing away $200k; Dawkins poked at AI consciousness. quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/irrespo...

A lean month on the leadership shelf, three reads that rhyme more than they argue. The craft stays maddening with AI or without; slowing down is how the quality gets back in. quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/enginee...

Coding agents came home to the BEAM this month. opal is a small, sharp coding agent in Elixir; BeamAgent and MonkeyClaw argue that OTP gets for free much of what Python frameworks bolt on later. quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/elixir/...

Vibe coding came back to its source this month. Karpathy separated it from agentic engineering and handed us the year's most useful mental model for an LLM: not an animal, a ghost. quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/machine...

SMTP is over forty years old, still wide open, and still effectively owned by a handful of platforms. Just about all tech runs the protocol-to-platform loop but cheap software might be about to run it backwards. Blog #0198: From Protocols to Platforms and Back matthewsinclair.com/blog/0198-fr...

QFM112: Irresponsible AI Reading List - April 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/irrespo...

QFM111: Engineering Leadership Reading List - April 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/enginee...

QFM110: Elixir Reading List - April 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/elixir/...

QFM109: Machine Intelligence Reading List - April 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/machine...

This is really good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ne... Humanity has built "Dunning-Krueger as a Service". :(

I'm a software engineer ~ what next? S01E20 is live! "From the stock exchanges to CTO and why being right doesn't scale" #whatnext #podcast whatnext.dev/episodes/s01...

‘STRAYA!

I've been writing a series on agentic coding (in Elixir) and they've been trickling out each Monday for the last few weeks. Much of the inspiration originated from chats with other engineers this year (and several deep chats on the `#llm-assisted-elixir` channel over on the Elixir Slack). Enjoy!

Misere is a spectator sport.

If anyone, even as recently as 2 years ago, suggested that I would be soon having this kind of conversation with a machine, I would have questioned their sanity.

Whoa. Looks like Claude just had a stroke.

I am totally addicted to this.

Jail birds.

After 12 months of doing exactly nothing, ØNTHR has improved infinitely. Launching Nada 4.6 -- the world's first homeopathic frontier model. Trained on zero data. The less it knows, the smarter it gets. 0/0 = ∞ The math checks out. netherzero.com

Blog #0194: The Time Cost of How Is Zero Agentic coding pushes the implementation cost of software towards zero and value shifts from how to build something towards why and what, the latest rung on a very old ladder. matthewsinclair.com/blog/0194-th... #blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #futureofwork

Blog #0193: Learning and Dreaming Part 4 of 4. Cross-entropy loss, Adam optimiser, the training loop, and autoregressive sampling. The GPT learns and generates. matthewsinclair.com/blog/0193-le... #blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Blog #0192: How Tokens Talk to Each Other Part 3 of 4. Self-attention, multi-head projections, and KV caching — the core of the transformer matthewsinclair.com/blog/0192-ho... #blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Blog #0191: From Letters to Logits Part 2 of 4. Character-level tokenization, linear algebra, softmax, and the complete GPT architecture — all in pure Elixir. matthewsinclair.com/blog/0191-fr... #blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Blog #0190: What If Numbers Could Remember? Part 1 of a 4-part series on building a GPT from scratch in Elixir. Autograd, computation graphs, and making numbers remember. matthewsinclair.com/blog/0190-wh... #blog #braingasm #ai #gpt #elixir #fromscratch

Blog #0189: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Highlander Rule matthewsinclair.com/blog/0189-th... #blog #braingasm #agentic #ai #highlander

Blog #0188: On Knowing What Code to Throw Away Agentic coding has inverted the job — from knowing what to write, to knowing what to throw away matthewsinclair.com/blog/0188-on... #blog #braingasm #agentic #ai

QFM108: Irresponsible Ai Reading List - March 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/irrespo... #qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #irresponsibe #ai #machine #intelligence #genai #generative #ai

QFM107: Engineering Leadership Reading List - March 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/enginee... #qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #engineering #leadership #management #tech

QFM106: Elixir Reading List - March 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/elixir/... #qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #elixir #software #beam

QFM105: Machine Intelligence Reading List - March 2026 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/machine... #qfm #blog #quantumfaxmachine #readinglist #machine #intelligence #ai

Ok, if anyone needs any more evidence that we're in the Whacky Timeline, here's Linux running in a 6mb PDF document: linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

Ok, so this is blowing up, but there's a very good reason: it's _so_ original and interesting and _different_. In a world increasingly overflowing with unoriginal slop, this is just flat out _great_: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Apologies for being quiet over the last few months. Normal service has resumed. QFM{72,76,80,84,88,92,96,100} Irresponsible AI Reading Lists 202506-January 202601: Everything I found interesting about the irresponsible use of AI over the last 8 months matthewsinclair.medium.com/qfm-72-76-80...

Apologies for being a bit quiet over the last few months. Normal service has resumed. QFM{71,75,79,83,87,91,95,99} Engineering Leadership Reading Lists 202506 — 202601: Everything I found interesting about Engineering Leadership over the last 8 months matthewsinclair.medium.com/qfm-71-75-79...

Apologies for being a bit quiet with QFM posts recently. Normal service has resumed: QFM{70,74,78,82,86,90,94,98} Elixir Reading Lists 202506 — 202601: Everything I found interesting about the Elixir programming ecosystem over the last 8 months matthewsinclair.medium.com/qfm-70-74-78...

Apologies for being a bit quiet with QFM posts recently. Normal service has resumed: QFM{69,73,77,81,85,89,93,97} Machine Intelligence Reading Lists 202501-202601: Everything I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently over the last 8 months matthewsinclair.medium.com/qfm-69-73-77...

Has anyone coined "GEN-eration" for the "Generative AI Generation"? If not, then I think I just did. 🤔

Well, this is quite the read: “Something big is happening” shumer.dev/something-bi...

I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a few months, so this is a quick catch-up post: what I've been doing, what I've shipped, and where things are headed. Blog #0187: A Few Things I've Been Working On matthewsinclair.com/blog/0187-a-...

Over the year, I try to find something interesting to read and digest each week related to or at least adjacent to what I am currently working on. Here's the list for 2025. Blog #0185: (Almost) 52 Things I Learned in 2025 matthewsinclair.com/blog/0185-al...

Here's a simple framework for thinking about where we draw the line on AI autonomy, from spreadsheets to self-driving cars Blog #0186: What We Let Machines Do matthewsinclair.com/blog/0186-wh...

Apparently, #itsinnottingham.

Oh, great. :/ www.techdirt.com/2026/02/05/t...

I’d really be curious to see moltbook mapped as simple organisms exchanging molecular bits in a pond, with all the text and pseudo-humanness stripped out.

I’m a software engineer ~ what next? S01E19 is live! “From DevOps to Novels: Richard Bown on Humane Engineering & Career Loops” #whatnext #podcast whatnext.dev/episodes/s01...

I’m a software engineer ~ what next? S01E18 is live! “From Engineering Bootcamps & Founding Startups to GitHub with Kate Catlin” #whatnext #podcast whatnext.dev/episodes/s01...