Every essay published on Vercilo since 2024 — long reads on AI, hardware, and the systems we run them on. Filter by topic; sort by date.
Solo apps are quietly eating SaaS. A note on the tooling shift that made it possible — and what it reveals about "team-shaped" software.
Why a single scalar can't carry the weight we put on it, and the small set of replacements I'd test in production.
For two years, the prompt box was the only UI we had. As capabilities grew and latencies shrank, it stopped being the right metaphor.
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.
Annotated tour of a modern flagship SoC — what each block does, where the heat is, and what its layout reveals about its designer's priorities.
On the line between teacher and student. Why the best small models feel hand-tuned — and why the worst feel compressed.
Dashboards are how decisions get deferred. A polemic on why the metric tile became the dominant form of the 2020s and what should replace it.