Plausible Reality

The AI Layoff Story Is Too Convenient
Big tech is not simply replacing workers with bots. It is using AI, higher rates, and a colder labour market to redraw which people count as scarce.
 • Eloi Tay
The Benchmark Is Also Hallucinating
DeepSWE is a serious test of coding agents. The silly bit is pretending any one leaderboard can tell you whether software work is safe.
 • Eloi Tay
The Moat Moved Up the Stack
Open models can catch a leaderboard. That is not the same thing as catching the product.
 • Eloi Tay
We Keep Promoting the Wrong Kind of Leader
We Keep Promoting the Wrong Kind of Leader
 • Eloi Tay
The High Performer Trap
Why the person who saves the day can become the manager who blocks the team.
 • Eloi Tay
GPT-5.5 Is Expensive Only If You Ask the Wrong Question
Price per token is the spreadsheet answer. Cost per useful outcome is the production answer.
 • Eloi Tay
Free Tools to Help You Stretch Your Tokens
RTK cuts terminal noise before it enters context. Caveman cuts the agent’s visible chatter. The useful trick is knowing which tokens each one actually…
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April 2026

AI Is Cheap. Good Ideas Still Aren't.
The useful question is not whether AI saves hours. It is whether it lets teams buy more serious attempts without lowering the bar.
 • Eloi Tay
Your Agent Isn't Tired. It's Drowning in Context
The useful analogy between humans and LLMs is not consciousness. It is that both fall apart when active memory, compression, and management are sloppy.
 • Eloi Tay
Your Org Chart Is Not Your Operating Model
Why healthy software teams keep accountability close to the product, centralize leverage, and design for knowledge resilience
 • Eloi Tay
You Are Probably Rebuilding DSPy Already
Why prompt tables, eval scripts, and model wrappers keep turning into the same architecture.
 • Eloi Tay
The New Senior Engineer Knows What to Trust
In the AI era, the real edge is not writing more code. It is deciding what counts as evidence before the code ships.
 • Eloi Tay
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