Writing

An end-to-end open-source platform for startup factories, assembled one missing building block at a time.

Long-term direction, conversational boundaries, and the limits of current models.

QuickBEAM 0.11 adds a JavaScript interpreter written in Elixir, so the BEAM can preempt, limit, and supervise it.

Reading existing code, understanding architecture, and checking for drift.

Models built to generate text are still bad at writing it, and continuing someone else’s fiction shows why.

Predictable habits, a plan the model keeps up to date, and prompts that keep getting shorter.

Where DuckDB fits alongside Postgres, and what QuackDB adds for Elixir.

How I handle pull requests when AI makes them cheap to open and expensive to review.

Design-to-code needs abstractions that map both ways, not generated backends nobody can maintain.

Vibe puts Elixir eval, stateful sessions, and supervised subagents at the center of a coding agent.

On imitation of competence, hiring rituals, and the cleanup cycle that follows.

JSX, structured JSON, and Bash are steps toward one declarative language, and models are learning behavior, not just text.

Models learn the most from acting in constrained environments, which makes feedback on their actions the valuable data.

QuickBEAM gives every JavaScript runtime a supervision tree, native BEAM terms, and no Node.js on the machine.

Figma shipped a silent patch to kill figma-use, so I recreated the core of it as OpenPencil in a weekend.