blog · field notes
You can read about my experiences, research, and thoughts on current topics throughout my software journey.
5/25/2026 · 7 min read
SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic Are Going Public — So What?
Summer 2026 brings three back-to-back IPOs: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. As a developer, this isn't just a finance story — it's news that the owners of your tools now answer to public markets. From Sam Altman's '0% excited' confession to DHH's 'customer hostile' critique, listening to what the industry's leading voices actually say sharpens the picture.
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5/20/2026 · 6 min read
Google I/O 2026 Developer Keynote: Notes from Watching It
Google I/O 2026 was dominated by Antigravity 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and WebMCP. Google is no longer just in the model race — it wants a seat at the tooling table too, with a direct response to Cursor and Claude Code.
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5/20/2026 · 6 min read
Karpathy at Anthropic: What Happens When Claude Trains Claude?
Andrej Karpathy paused Eureka Labs and joined Anthropic. His mission: build a brand-new team that uses Claude to accelerate Claude's own pre-training research. AI is now part of training AI.
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5/16/2026 · 6 min read
The Friday Email Arrived: When You Picked a Framework, Remember Which Contract You Signed
In May 2026 Next.js + React shipped a 13-advisory security release. But this isn't a one-off — March 2025 middleware bypass, December 2025 React2Shell RCE (CVSS 10), the May cluster. Four coordinated cycles in 14 months. Picking a framework is really subscribing to a patch economy, and the cost of that contract is real on your timeline.
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5/15/2026 · 4 min read
The Value Isn't in the Model Anymore — It's in What Surrounds It
New model releases aren't news on their own anymore — the real story is the tooling being built around them. From Anthropic's product-first message at Code w/ Claude, to mattpocock/skills trending on GitHub, to Windsurf and Cursor's pivots — value has shifted from the model to the ecosystem. A short observation on what that means for a frontend developer.
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5/10/2026 · 9 min read
Heads-up — No Theory Here, Just Autonomous Agents That Finish Tasks
Not the theory — the working system. I @claude from my phone, my PR is ready in short order. Three entry points, an open-source skill MCP I built myself, organization-wide rules, and the next link still being built.
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