Jamie Lord

The strangest thing in the Cloudflare OS source code took me a while to understand.

There is a gap in one of my paintings, near the top-left where the brush ran out before it reached the edge, and through the gap you can see a photograph. Not a painted impression of a photograph - the photograph, blurred, pixel for pixel, sitting underne

Cyrus Lopez published an essay last week, 'The Last People Who Know How It Works', and it's the best thing I've read about computing this year. It mourns an intimacy with machines that he thinks is ending: the boot disk built for one game, the IRQ jumper

Claude Fable 5 was in public hands for about three days before Anthropic took it back. Nothing was wrong with the model. The block came from a US demand Anthropic couldn't meet: keep non-US nationals away from it, including the ones living in America. Rat

This week I stood at a primary school careers fair, on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year so far, and tried to convince children between the ages of four and eleven that software development is the best job in the world. I had a sta

The Dutch government today blocked Kyndryl's acquisition of Solvinity, the IT company that operates DigiD. DigiD is the digital identity system roughly fourteen million Dutch citizens use to file their tax returns, book GP appointments, and pay municipal

At about half past eleven one evening this week I noticed a US Navy E-6B Mercury orbiting over the North Sea. Not "noticed" in the way of someone who happened to look up - I was on the sofa with a laptop balanced on one knee, and the orbit was being drawn

Cloudflare's Project Glasswing write-up landed today and the Hacker News thread is mostly arguing about whether the prose was written by Mythos or by Opus. It is a fair complaint and an irrelevant one. The diagram halfway down the page is the actual deliv

Cloudflare laid off more than 1,100 people yesterday, around 20% of the company. The announcement, titled 'Building for the Future', explains the cuts by noting that internal AI use is up 600% in three months and the company needs to 'architect itself for

Robert Glaser has a long post arguing that individual AI productivity gains do not become organisational gains, and that companies need a 'Loop Intelligence Hub' to capture which agentic workflows produce learning. The diagnosis is right. The fix would gu