New AI Benchmark: Ludowars

This is a real pleasure - a demo 20 years and 1 day in the making. Ludowars is an online competition to build the very best Ludo-bot in the universe. This benchmark has a very very long history - I built the first version of this for Demodag perhaps 20 years ago …

Halloween special: Skeletons

I asked my ghost (Claude) to build a little halloween entertainment for your TV Park your laptop with webcam ready in your living room Share your laptop screen with the TV (cable or...

Getting to the bottom of things with Claude Code

There's this great quote from Donald Knuth I found at some point about why he does not use e-mail which goes something like this: "E-mail is great for people who like to be on top of...

The Only Moat is Money

So we've been hearing for months from the AI influencers that - "what the hell is happening in Europe??". "There are no frontier labs in Europe!!!". In fact in the link above, Ethan...

How to think like a product manager

The AI acceleration has given a lot of software orgs fairly dramatic balancing problems; the coding output is vastly higher - but that means that every other process in the life cycle of...

First software 3.5 model?

Potentially an exciting development in the world of AI - Typesafe AI with the oddly named Jev model - seems to be the first serious attempt at what I've previously called Software 3.5....

AI vs Math vs P vs NP

Now that the robots have started attacking the Clay Mathematics millenium problems it's interesting when they'll get to P vs NP - you might ask, when they'll take this interest in...