Thoughts

Essays on AI, engineering, design and building products.

JAN 20266 MIN

In Defense of the Mouse

A contrarian take on why reaching for your mouse might actually make you a better programmer. Vim enthusiasts, look away.

ProductivityDeveloper Experience

DEC 202414 MIN

ModernBERT

A deep dive into ModernBERT—the next evolution of encoder-only transformers, designed for longer contexts, better efficiency, and state-of-the-art performance in retrieval and classification.

AIEmbeddingsVector SearchRAG

DEC 20249 MIN

Forest-of-Thought

A primer on test-time compute and an overview of the recently proposed Forest-of-Thought approach

AIAI ResearchReasoningResearch Paper