Editing fixes sentences. Revision rewrites the spec. Most writers spend their careers doing the first when the second is what is wrong. IN THIS ESSAY 01The gold standard is the spec, the contract 02Three signs you should revise, not edit, titles, close, polish 03What I do, in order, five steps 04I write in modules, so …
What revision actually is, and what it certainly is not · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across enterprise codebases, or turn to smaller open-weight models that might struggle with complex vulnerability remediation and require teams to build their own tooling and infrastructure from scratch. Until now. …
Short answer Why is the Roman-legion company the wrong shape for 2026? Companies shaped like a Roman legion put humans in the middle as the conduit for information up and down a hierarchy. AI breaks that assumption. The shape that wins now is a set of recursive loops that sense, decide, act, check, and learn …
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My daughter is three years old. She broke her toy guitar and wants a new one. Instead of another toy guitar, I bought her a real Ukulele. It’s small, lightweight, and perfect for a small girl. Besides, it sounds way better than the annoying toy guitar. She loved it. But I’m the one who played …
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When I write, I picture a cabin in the mountains. I have never lived in one. The picture is enough. It quiets my mind and lets it move. That is the first thing I learned about writing. The room is mostly in my head. For years I thought I needed what writers are told to …
The room where I write, and rebuild it every morning · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
Most production AI agents still send every LLM call to the same expensive frontier model. Classification steps, simple tool calls, progress checks, and hard reasoning all hit the same endpoint. The result is unnecessary cost and latency. NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard solves this. It is an open-source routing layer (proxy + library) that sits between your …
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Short answer What is the real test of AI in the next five years? The real test of AI in the next five years is whether it reaches the people who need it most. The frontier capability is being absorbed by enterprises and hedge funds that already had access to capability. The audience that would …
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Real-world data at continuous global scale WeatherNext 3’s biggest leap forward is what it learns from. Most AI weather models, including WeatherNext 2, are trained on data from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. Although useful, NWP models are complex, supercomputer-driven physics simulations that carry a six-hour data lag. This lag can lead to biases for …
Short answer Which workers does AI hit first, and what does the forecast actually say? White-collar work goes first. Blue-collar work goes later. The industrial-era story has the order wrong. Anything that lives in bits gets automated now. Anything that needs hands on atoms takes longer. Abundance and unrest arrive together in three to seven …
Abundance and Unrest Hit the Middle of the Labor Market · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
Every major inference framework shipped prefill-decode disaggregation this year. NVIDIA built it into Dynamo. SGLang made it the default for large-scale deployments. vLLM added a KV connector API to support it natively. The consensus is forming fast: split your prefill and decode onto separate GPU pools, and throughput improves. The consensus is wrong for most …
