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

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...

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-...

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...

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...

Apparently, #itsinnottingham.

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!

🎙️ 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.

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

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 am tired of having to justify “Why Elixir?” so I decided to compile all the reasons in one place. "#0181: Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions Why Elixir is not just a good platform for modern development, but a great one!" matthewsinclair.com/blog/0181-wh...

In our fourth "Summer Shorts" post for the What Next podcast, James and @matthewsinclair.com chat about a very hot topic: Is AI making things better or worse for software engineers? 🎧 25 minutes. Zero fluff. Tune in now. #whatnext #summershorts open.spotify.com/episode/5KCl...

QUANTUM FAX MACHINE: Spring/Summer Double Issue: 8 Reading Lists Published! Check out the reading lists here: quantumfaxmachine.com

Today's #braingasm post explains how to make Emacs appear in macOS Finder’s “Open With” menu for .md files by manually associating file types using duti. #0180: Making Emacs Appear in macOS Finder's Open With Menu for Markdown Files matthewsinclair.com/blog/0180-ma...

In our third #summershorts post for the #whatnext podcast, James and I chat about The Title Trap: rethinking titles and career progression in tech. 🎧 16 minutes. Zero fluff. Tune in now. www.linkedin.com/posts/james-...

In our second #summershorts post for the #whatnext podcast, James and I discuss a recent (controversial?) post he made on engineers tying themselves too tightly to a particular tech stack. 🎧 15 minutes. Zero fluff. Tune in now. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

I'm a software engineer ~ what next? "Crafting culture in startups, CEO's role" www.youtube.com/shorts/9RD9I...

I'm a software engineer ~ what next? "Strong vs weak cultures in startups" www.youtube.com/shorts/9u6hq...

I'm a software engineer ~ what next? "Hiring for values over technology in early-stage startups" www.youtube.com/shorts/uFWBv...

📚 QUANTUM FAX MACHINE: MARCH 2025 READING LIST! 🚀 🚀 Engineering Leadership Challenging conventional wisdom by dismantling the '10x engineer' myth and exploring what it means to be a tech leader in 2025. 👉 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm059-...

📚 QUANTUM FAX MACHINE: MARCH 2025 READING LIST! 🚀 ⚡ Elixir Deep dive into the evolving Elixir ecosystem with highlights on Women in BEAM, new UI libraries for Phoenix LiveView, and Sean Moriarity's keynote on designing LLM-native systems with Elixir. 👉 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm058-...

📚 QUANTUM FAX MACHINE: MARCH 2025 READING LIST! 🚀 🤖 Machine Intelligence Exploring philosophical foundations of AI, economic implications, and practical applications. Featuring "gradual disempowerment" and Mayo Clinic's approach to combating hallucinations. 👉 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm057-...

📚 QUANTUM FAX MACHINE: MARCH 2025 READING LIST! 🚀 ⚠️ Irresponsible AI When AI goes wrong - practical tips for avoiding "garbage" output from AI assistants, Apple's "$10B+ Siri AI Disaster," and the provocative question: "Is GenAI Digital Cocaine?" 👉 quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm060-...

📚 QUANTUM FAX MACHINE: MARCH 2025 READING LISTS ARE LIVE! 🚀 Fresh content alert! My March 2025 curated reading lists are now available covering four tech domains: 🤖 Machine Intelligence ⚡ Elixir 🚀 Engineering Leadership ⚠️ Irresponsible AI 👉 quantumfaxmachine.com

Introducing ØNTHR: The World's First Perfect Stablecoin. ØNTHR guarantees absolute price stability at precisely $0.00—forever. Find out more here: netherzero.com #Stablecoin #ZeroIsTheFuture #Web3 #Crypto #ProtocolLaunch #DeFi #Fintech #InstituteForNothing #Tokenomics

Wondering what's next once you're a software engineer? Check my #podcast on career boundary conditions—4 episodes in, wanting your feedback. More at matthewsinclair.com/blog/0175-wh... #whatnext

⚠️ NEW: February 2025 Irresponsible AI Reading List! On "The LLMentalist Effect," AI hype vs. reality, and ethics of militarised AI. Read more: quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm056-... #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics

🚀 February 2025 Engineering Leadership Reading List! On AI in management, flatter hierarchies, and rethinking technical debt. Read more: quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm055-... #EngineeringLeadership #TechManagement

💫 NEW: February 2025 Elixir Reading List! Featuring LiveDebugger, Torus, and evolving UI patterns in Phoenix. Read now: quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm054-... #Elixir #Phoenix #LiveView #BEAM

🤖 NEW: February 2025 Machine Intelligence Reading List! Exploring "gradual disempowerment" - how incremental AI advances could silently erode human agency. Read more: quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/qfm053-... #AI #MachineLearning #QuantumFaxMachine