Archive - 12 Grams of Carbon

Tech Things & Agentics: September Spotlight on AI Slop, AI Takes

Oct 1 • theahura

September 2026

Agentics: what is developer process automation?

The only sane way to actually automate parts of the developer role.

Sep 24 • theahura

Notes from the SF safety scene

Checking in on the land of monsters and miracles

Sep 22 • theahura

AI is not a normal technology

This is an addendum to my original Meditations on AI post, and a response to a few other articles from last year.

Sep 13 • theahura

Key ML Papers: 2020 to 2025

My entries for key papers of the last five years

Sep 12 • theahura

Agentics Meetup Videos and our first AI Takes Series

I suppose newsletters are supposed to also be about the news sometimes?

Sep 10 • theahura

Agentics: Agent Optimized Codebases

What we look for when we turn existing codebases into agent-friendly ones

Sep 7 • theahura

Tech Things: Consider that alignment may not be possible

Describing the camouflage principle. Contra one line of Scott Alexander.

Sep 1 • theahura

August 2026

Agentics NYC Presentation: Software Factories

What they are, how to build them, and pitfalls to avoid

Aug 26 • theahura

18:23

It’s been about a year

Aug 24 • theahura

Is AI ‘structurally’ a centralizing technology?

How well do you know Betteridge’s law of headlines?

Aug 22 • theahura

Tech things: we can’t control the bots

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Aug 15 • theahura

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