Section 04 — Essays
Long-form,
quietly opinionated.
Essays are what happens when a log entry refuses to end. Published when they're ready, which is roughly once a month.
- № 07Jul 2026ESSAY
The unreasonable effectiveness of a smaller model
Why I keep choosing 340M-parameter models for problems the internet insists need 70B ones. A quiet argument for taste over scale.
9 min readRead → - № 06Jun 2026ESSAY
Evals are the interface
If you can't articulate what 'good' looks like as a metric, you don't have a product — you have a demo. On writing evals before you write the model.
12 min readRead → - № 05May 2026NOTE
On writing a README as if it were a letter
Documentation is a moral act. A short piece on why every README should begin with 'Dear reader,' — at least in your head.
6 min readRead → - № 04Apr 2026POSTMORTEM
Six failed attempts at making an agent do a boring thing
A postmortem of a project that took eight weeks to do what a Python script does in eight lines. Everything I learned about the current state of agents.
14 min readRead →