Archive: 2026-03

optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter - GEPA — "The key insight is that a surprisingly wide range of problems can be formulated as optimizing a text artifact". (2026-03-14 · ai, llm, mlp )

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale - Engineering at Meta — "Meta executes ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries tens of billions of times a day" -- ffmpeg is one of the CLIs I've found that can still consistently break an AI's "brain". (2026-03-09 · facebook, ffmpeg, infrastructure, meta, mlp, video )

AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed. — “Most organizations have never had a model for developing software engineers. They had an environment that happened to produce growth, and they mistook the environment for a system.” (2026-03-09 · ai, engineering, leadership, mlp, software )

Integrated Capture and Conversion of Dilute CO2 Using an Oxygen Tolerant Porous Carbon Modified Gas Diffusion Electrode | ACS Energy Letters — Lab-scale demonstration of 3rd wave direct air carbon caption addresses key challenges with DAC: it doesn't waste energy on oxygen, operates at room temperature without the superheating step to release CO2, and produces a valuable output (formic acid) vs something that needs to be sequestered. (2026-03-08 · carbon, climate, climate-hope, co2, dac, mlp, paper, science ) (via fixthenews)

prime-radiant-inc/clearance: A Markdown viewer for macOS — A file browser for .md files from Jesse. (2026-03-06 · ai, jesse-vincent, markdown, mlp )

Knuth on Claude — "I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6" (2026-03-03 · ai, claude, knuth, mlp )