Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

Dangerous Technology For Americans Only

Gaslighting Openness

Communities of Not

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Building Pi With Pi

Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish

Content for Content’s Sake

Before GitHub

Equity for Europeans

The Center Has a Bias

Mario and Earendil

Absurd In Production

Some Things Just Take Time

AI And The Ship of Theseus

The Final Bottleneck

A Language For Agents

Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw

Colin and Earendil

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent

Advent of Slop: A Guest Post by Claude

A Year Of Vibes

What Actually Is Claude Code’s Plan Mode?

Skills vs Dynamic MCP Loadouts

Let’s Destroy The European Union!

LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem

Agent Design Is Still Hard

Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres

Regulation Isn’t the European Trap — Resignation Is

Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code

90%

What’s a Foreigner?

996

Passkeys and Modern Authentication

Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code

In Support Of Shitty Types

Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work

From Async/Await to Virtual Threads

Welcoming The Next Generation of Programmers

Tools: Code Is All You Need