A personal record of essays on artificial intelligence, the silicon underneath it, and the systems we build on top. Long reads, no hot takes — published when they're ready.
Read the latest →For two years, the prompt box was the only UI we had. As capabilities grew and latencies shrank, it stopped being the right metaphor. Here's what's replacing it — and why agentic surfaces are an architectural problem long before they're a product one.
HBM4 is here, GDDR7 is everywhere, and LPDDR is doing things it was never supposed to. A reader-friendly taxonomy of where bytes actually move.
The decisions you make about p99 are decisions about who gets to use the product. A short essay on perceived performance and accessibility.
Million-token windows arrived faster than the workloads to use them. A working theory of how attention budgets should be priced.
I've spent the last decade somewhere between systems engineering and ML research. Vercilo is where I publish the longer arguments — the ones too unfinished for papers, too involved for threads.
No sponsorships, no newsletters-of-newsletters. Essays land here when they're done.
Roughly two pieces a month. No tracking, no recommendations, no “what we're reading.”