Head of AI at Examfly and formerly Co-founder of Weeve
Here is a smorgasbord of thoughts, tinkerings, and translations.
Six weeks of reading distilled: Jevons paradox and AI labour, the K-shaped split, context engineering replacing prompts, predictionism as the successor to postmodernism, and why a visit to Pearse's Scoil Éanna made me think about paideia.
Anthropic recently released Claude Skills—a framework for packaging reusable workflows that Claude can execute on-demand. Think of them as Standard Operating Procedures for AI agents.
A Framework for AI Evals That Actually Works
Welcome to Mines and Rabbit Holes #2. It is great to say that there is indeed a follow up and I hope you enjoy!
AI feels like a real conversation. It isn’t.
You can't be both the student and the teacher
The word of the year. Focail na mbliana.
#1?
Harnessing Human Imperfection and Bold Vision in an AI-Driven World
300k -> 0k
Why Documentation is the New Superpower
Friend or Foe? Neither: Frenemy.
We Haven’t had the Windows 95 Moment Yet
How the Memory Paradox and AI Slide Are Undermining Human Intelligence
The New Terrain of Critical Thinking
The Traditional Org Chart is Being Toppled by AI
Why We Hunt for Better Metaphors
Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps You Dry—Until It Doesn't
Navigating the AI Training Gap
A Holiday Guide to Better Questions
programming languages >> natural languages
Making Greatness Default
Abstracting and synthesising our way in and out of novel problems
Approaching the Speed of Thought for Content Creation
AI aids development; but, without the human touch, it will never be accessible to all.
AI can be the great variance amplifier for minority languages
You can escape the attention-mining rush and learn faster simply by reading what you like.
DevDay for OpenAI brings AI agents to the masses
LLMs still going brrr thanks to timesaving with JSON outputs
Diglot Weaving involves weaving or mixing two languages together. In the case of language learning, it is where sentences written in the learner’s native language have words from the language they want to learn mixed in.
Translation forces you to think about meaning in a way other meditatative practices on a text don't.
A reflection on a year at Weeve (formally Diglot)
A few thoughts on FOMO and the importance of asking yourself the right questions.
Adaptability is not just the key to surive, but the key to thrive.
Gemini 3 Flash wins the expanded 1,341-test Irish grammar benchmark at 72.4% accuracy
Comparing three independent studies on LLM Irish grammar competence - all hitting the same ~70% ceiling
Un-reason-LLM-bly good?
AI's Unexpected Fluency in Irish
Discover why managing user onboarding, account management, and subscriptions from a separate website can enhance the security and user experience of your browser extension.
A guide to setting up the Expo Client on MacOS Catalina.
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Shape of the Essay Field'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Need to Read'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'What You (Want To)* Want'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Coronavirus and Credibility'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Writing, Briefly'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Top Of My Todo List'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'What Doesn’t Seem Like Work?'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Island Test'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'The Risk of Discovery'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Copy What You Like'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Fashionable Problems'
An Irish translation of Paul Graham's Essay on 'Good and Bad Procrastination'