Personal tech blog
Personal tech blog of Guillermo Barreto — notes on tech news and the craft of building software.
Microsoft shipped a record 1,413 security fixes this week, and an OpenAI engineer got arrested for bugging a conference room with a device wrapped in toilet paper. The attacks are low-tech. The defenses are boring. That's the whole job.
Getting electricity to AI data centers was already the bottleneck. Now there's a bottleneck inside the bottleneck: thousands of GPUs swinging megawatt loads in milliseconds, so Siemens is selling electrical shock absorbers — while one Singapore developer just crossed a gigawatt of billings.
Anthropic's agents now merge 30,000 code changes a day, so the company threw out git and built its own version control. Git was designed for humans typing offline. That world is over at the frontier.