Posts tagged #architecture

6 posts

• In 2026, Software > SaaS March 12, 2026

  The industry forgot how to build software that runs on the user's machine. Some of us didn't. Here's what happens next.

• 300 Nopes February 13, 2026

  A Stanford survey cataloging ~300 papers on LLM reasoning failures just confirmed every architectural diagnosis I made.

• Car Keys January 15, 2026

  RLMs and MoR are real progress. They're also still not reasoning. A critique of the cutting edge.

• Frontier Models Do Not Think January 6, 2026

  Transformers don't reason. They perform reasoning kabuki theater. What's missing isn't capability, it's coordination.

• 60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS September 1, 2012

  How we scaled from 1,000 to 600,000+ daily users with zero downtime, no late nights, and a four-person team. The architecture decisions that made it possible.

• Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team May 2, 2012

  The story of how we fired everyone, rewrote everything in Clojure, moved to AWS, and built a scalable OTA platform with just four developers—then got acquired by the biggest hotel chains in the world.