Abstract Heresies

When I did interviews for Google, one of my go-to interview questions was to ask the candidate to determine if someone had won a game of...

Continuation-passing style (CPS) is a programming style in which you pass one or more first-class procedures (continuations) to a functi...

Yesterday I mentioned that my LLM was generating some fairly good Lisp code and showed some examples of the code it generated. An anony...

A year ago, you couldn't vibe code in Lisp. Even the SOTA models had trouble balancing parentheses, and they'd hallucinate package...

Lately I've been playing with writing a chatbot library in Common Lisp. My previous gemini bindings were getting unweildy. I wanted ...

I refactored my Gemini API to support multiple simultaneous personas. One of these personas is Urania, the muse of Science and Technology. ...

I added five tools to the LLM agent that allow it to introspect its own system instruction: appendSystemInstruction, deleteSystemInstru...

I often quote snippets of Common Lisp in my blog. I thought it'd be cool if I could colorize them, so I generated this app that takes...

Suppose we direct the LLM to improve a prompt. Suppose we direct the LLM to improve the very prompt that directs the LLM to improve prompts...

In Richard Gabriel's essay “Worse is Better ”, Gabriel contrasts the “MIT approach” of designing for correctness and completenes...