Kevin Ferron

• Nov 1, 2026Leftover Screws: Jev starts routing, Quantum collapses ↗What I took apart in the Lab this week, and what's still on the bench. (opens in a new tab)
• Oct 31, 2026The end of software engineering lasted six days ↗A viral tweet says a paper just killed programming. The paper's author took that back in June, and its most useful number explains both of my last two pieces. (opens in a new tab)
• Oct 30, 2026Fast or good was never a law ↗Inside Proton's AI reckoning, as 404 Media reports it: the old ways are bucking under the strain, and the people who've been winning the "you can't be fast and… (opens in a new tab)

• New · 1 Nov

  Repos: 15 tools around REA, under a new reverse engineering topic

• New · 1 Nov · Jev C4, Jev, chapter 4 of 8

  Jev: a model that decides, chapter 4: gating an agent’s action

• New · 1 Nov · Vault C6, Vault, chapter 6 of 8

  The vault and the graph, chapter 6: permissions and privacy

• New · 1 Nov

  Traces, checkpoints and receipts: what an agent run should leave behind

• New · 28 Oct

  One page for each kind of business: websites, AI and security

• New · 28 Oct

  An agent graph drawn for each trade, from HVAC to tax offices

• New · 28 Oct

  The rules each trade works under, with their sources

• Changed · 28 Oct

  The trade pages moved from /websites/for to /for

Profiles and dated news for people who shape AI and technology, and a graph of the companies, boards and funders around them, compiled from public sources.

• Sam Altman
• Dario Amodei
• Jensen Huang
• Elon Musk
• Sundar Pichai
• Andrej Karpathy
• Geoffrey Hinton
• Alex Karp
• Peter Thiel

• ai · engineering · x.com · 2 NovExploring Super-agent Design: Towards a More Autonomous Agent System ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  A design for an always-on agent: a router session talks to people, workers run tasks in parallel on events, a watchdog sits outside. Early tests.

• engineering · ai · danluu.com · 1 NovWe should be more ambitious with the software we build ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  AI tools cut the cost of building software, so people should attempt projects they once ruled out; heavy testing can make the results good enough to trust.

• ai · 404media.co · 30 OctManifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Reports that Proton's leadership is pushing rapid AI adoption, and that staff describe intimidation; a spokesperson acknowledged some employees are unhappy.

• ai · careers · felixrieseberg.com · 28 OctHunger beats tenure: advice for junior engineers ↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Execution got cheap, so what counts now is picking the impactful problem, building the prototype yourself, and keeping fresh eyes. Good advice at any level.