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...

I’m a software engineer ~ what next? S01E17 is live! “Speaking Like a Human with Stew Bewley” #whatnext #podcast whatnext.dev/episodes/s01...

Here’s a wall of 90s and 00s CDs. My wife decided that they were talking up space in the basement and so something had to be done about it!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... We've been working on this since December 2022 and it's now published

🚨Millions of homeowners are trapped by feudal ground rents, unfair fees for land they already own. The Government promised to cap them, but now the Treasury is pressuring ministers to back down to protect the wealthy. Sign & share: 38d.gs/pomp

Goodbye KT7! 👋 Hello NG1! 🙌 #movingday

🎙️ new @overcommitted.dev ep with @matthewsinclair.com! we talked elixir, ai-assisted dev, and why leadership is fundamentally about storytelling overcommitted.dev/ep-34-the-ar...

"Phoenix Creator Argues Elixir Is AI’s Best Language" thenewstack.io/phoenix-crea... #elixir #ai

I made a thing: “Introducing Utilz: A Simple Script Framework for macOS” matthewsinclair.com/blog/0184 Utilz is a simple Bash-dispatcher to organise personal ~/bin scripts with consistent help, tests, shared libs and easy machine portability.

Wow. The is _really_ good. youtu.be/hlVBYEx8L4Q #forgivethhaters

This was a great chat with Alexandros Pouroullis. We've previously spoken to great older folks with years of experience, but here, James and I spoke to someone at the other end of their career. Alé has managed to achieve SO MUCH so soon! I'm sure you'll love our latest #WhatNext! whatnext.dev/feed

Enjoyed this episode from @whatnext.dev: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSt... AI is neither the cure for all things nor a hoax. Just another tool (a powerful one). I liked @matthewsinclair.com 's argument that it is one step further towards declarative programming. Like TF but for software.

Well, look who has a shiny new website! And not a dodgy AI-generated pirate anywhere to be seen! Check it out at: whatnext.dev

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me! github.com/manzaltu/cla...

Crikey, this is _so_ good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dvn...

It never ceases to amaze me the cognitive mismatch that occurs when non-tech people try to reason about "the things in tech that they think are hard" versus "the things in tech that they think are easy". It seems to be the source of so much tension between tech and non-tech folks. 🤔

hexdocs.pm/usage_rules now includes powerful docs-search tasks, and instructs agents to use them for research. Please, if you are working with LLMs and Elixir, try it out. It helps even when packages haven't written usage-rules files, thanks to the new docs tools! #ElixirLang

News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates, @josevalim.bsky.social's DevLabs interview on building authentic tools, 9 reasons to choose Elixir, Fgma's $300K daily AWS costs, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-4...