Martin Alderson
5 days ago
The Coming AI Compute Crunch
Why DRAM shortages, not capital, will define AI infrastructure growth through 2027
Hardware
AI
Business
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Martin Alderson
1 weeks ago
I ported Photoshop 1.0 to C# in 30 minutes
Using Claude Code to port 120k lines of Pascal and 68k assembly to modern C# - and what this means for cross-platform development
Programming
C#
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Martin Alderson
2 weeks ago
Why I'm building my own CLIs for agents
MCP tools eat thousands of tokens. A simple CLI with instructions in your CLAUDE.md file uses 71 tokens and works brilliantly.
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Martin Alderson
2 weeks ago
Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in.
Travel agents are the classic example of an industry killed by the internet. Software engineering is facing the same disruption, but the timeline is compressed.
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Martin Alderson
3 weeks ago
Are we dismissing AI spend before the 6x lands?
Critics are judging models trained on last-gen hardware. There's a 6x wave of compute already allocated - and it's just starting to produce results.
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Martin Alderson
1 months ago
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
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Martin Alderson
1 months ago
Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.
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Martin Alderson
1 months ago
Are we in a GPT-4-style leap that evals can't see?
Gemini 3 Pro's design capabilities and Opus 4.5's reduced babysitting needs represent a subtle but significant leap that traditional benchmarks completely miss.
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Martin Alderson
1 months ago
I Finally Found a Use for IPv6
Using IPv6 with Cloudflare to run multiple services on a single server without a reverse proxy
DevOps
Cloud
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Martin Alderson
2 months ago
How I use Claude Code to manage sysadmin tasks
A practical approach to managing production infrastructure using git-tracked markdown files and Claude Code for small teams
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Martin Alderson
2 months ago
Could Excel agents unlock $1T in economic value?
Software engineers underestimate the scale of Excel usage. With agents now able to work directly in spreadsheets, we're looking at transforming how billions of dollars in business processes are managed.
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Martin Alderson
2 months ago
Are we really repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
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Martin Alderson
3 months ago
A non-technical CFO is shipping better code than the agencies he hired
A non-technical CFO built a production operations dashboard with Claude Code that had failed with low-code tools and agencies. This shift in who can build software is going to change everything.
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Martin Alderson
3 months ago
Tracking MCP Server Growth
I built a tracker to monitor the growth of MCP servers in the wild - turns out the ecosystem is growing faster than I expected
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Martin Alderson
3 months ago
Notes from MCP Dev Summit Europe: Where the Protocol Is Headed
Insights from MCP Dev Summit Europe on agentic discovery, client compatibility challenges, and the emerging field of agentic experience design
Design
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Martin Alderson
3 months ago
How I make CI/CD (much) faster and cheaper
Why GitHub Actions runners are slow and how bare metal servers can make your CI/CD 2-10x faster while costing 10x less
Ci Cd
Performance
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Martin Alderson
3 months ago
Google AI Studio API has been unreliable for the past 2 weeks
Google's Gemini AI Studio API has been suffering from severe reliability issues with little transparency about the problems on their status page.
API
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Martin Alderson
3 months ago
What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.
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Martin Alderson
4 months ago
Solving Claude Code's API Blindness with Static Analysis Tools
How to give AI coding assistants complete visibility into APIs and third-party libraries using static analysis instead of basic text search.
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Martin Alderson
4 months ago
Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference?
Deconstructing the real costs of running AI inference at scale. My napkin math suggests the economics might be far more profitable than commonly claimed.
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