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September 25, 2025

The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review

Looks like I'm not alone advocating for commits which tell a story. Makes reviews so much nicer.

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

If you're wondering why the architecture is called "amd64" and why the itanium disappeared... this is why. It was a very good stunt from AMD back then.

AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing

There's some truth in this piece. We never quite managed to really have a semantic web because knowledge engineering is actually hard... and we publish mostly unstructured or badly structured data. LLMs are thus used as a brute force attempt at layering some temporary and partial structure on top of otherwise unstructured data. They're not really up to the task of course but it gives us a glimpse into what could have been.