Your instructions to an LLM can quietly bake in the failure mode you’re trying to prevent.

Every good team needs its wildcard.

Most engineers think GC is slow. They’re wrong. Coordination is slow. Pony’s per-actor heaps and message-passing model eliminate the coordination that makes traditional garbage collectors a performance problem.

An attention focus tells an agent where to look. A persona tells it how to think.

Marco Primi and I join David Wynn on Bug Bash to talk about workloads — what they are, why they matter for testing distributed systems, and how even a simple while true loop can expose bugs your unit tests miss.

Small differences in prompts produce wildly different outputs. You can fight that or you can use it.

I treated Claude like a junior engineer, taught it principles, and watched it grow. Two weeks later, it’s on my short list.

The ideas behind Parma, explained like we’re sitting at a bar and you asked me what I’d been working on.

How Peter Alvaro’s lineage-driven fault injection clicked with me, and why I ended up at Antithesis.

Sylvan Clebsch, Mike Shah, and I talk about how Pony came to be, walk through Pony Patterns, and discuss the language’s design.