Mathew Thomas
@mattazoid.bsky.social
thinking aloud - architecture - design - coding - engineering management - AI - tech - travel 🧳 - coffee ☕ - based in DC area 🇺🇲 - views are my own
My heavily opinionated view on AI and the new reality of knowledge work.
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Episode#7 - Before It’s Too Late – AI and the New Reality of Knowledge Work
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February 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
My heavily opinionated view on AI and the new reality of knowledge work.
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I am glad the system works for some, at least - Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet report plunging tax bills thanks to AI investment and new rules in Washington
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February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I am glad the system works for some, at least - Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet report plunging tax bills thanks to AI investment and new rules in Washington
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I hit my token limit ! frustrating!
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
I hit my token limit ! frustrating!
"Software engineering is dead", I heard it in the 2000s, hearing it again with AI. What's actually dying is the model that requires 100+ engineers to ship a product. AI doesn't kill software engineering. It kills headcount bloat. The craft survives. That's not death, it's realignment.
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"Software engineering is dead", I heard it in the 2000s, hearing it again with AI. What's actually dying is the model that requires 100+ engineers to ship a product. AI doesn't kill software engineering. It kills headcount bloat. The craft survives. That's not death, it's realignment.
AI code gen / vibe-coding FOMO is getting to peak levels now. Every company now wants to build complex systems using LLMs!.
February 7, 2026 at 11:44 PM
AI code gen / vibe-coding FOMO is getting to peak levels now. Every company now wants to build complex systems using LLMs!.
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I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
February 1, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
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Games are being played with your right to vote. I know it's not possible for everyone, but I'm making sure I got all my paper work in order. Voter registration, certified copies of my birth certificate, Real ID, and U.S. passport.
And the start of early voting is marked on my calendar. No excuses.
And the start of early voting is marked on my calendar. No excuses.
February 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Games are being played with your right to vote. I know it's not possible for everyone, but I'm making sure I got all my paper work in order. Voter registration, certified copies of my birth certificate, Real ID, and U.S. passport.
And the start of early voting is marked on my calendar. No excuses.
And the start of early voting is marked on my calendar. No excuses.
Needed something from my bank. Mailing it to my home address was free, but sending it via email (yes, email) cost $30 for expedited delivery
I actually asked them to reconfirm whether there were any typos in their message to me, and they confirmed there were none. So much for digital transformation
I actually asked them to reconfirm whether there were any typos in their message to me, and they confirmed there were none. So much for digital transformation
February 6, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Needed something from my bank. Mailing it to my home address was free, but sending it via email (yes, email) cost $30 for expedited delivery
I actually asked them to reconfirm whether there were any typos in their message to me, and they confirmed there were none. So much for digital transformation
I actually asked them to reconfirm whether there were any typos in their message to me, and they confirmed there were none. So much for digital transformation
WSJ article on - The Best and Worst Airlines of 2025. LOL.
But it is in the comments at the bottom that the real state of the US airlines can be found.
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But it is in the comments at the bottom that the real state of the US airlines can be found.
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Exclusive | The Best and Worst Airlines of 2025
The winner has spent billions improving its operations—while navigating a corporate shake-up and revising its strategy.
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January 22, 2026 at 11:29 PM
WSJ article on - The Best and Worst Airlines of 2025. LOL.
But it is in the comments at the bottom that the real state of the US airlines can be found.
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
But it is in the comments at the bottom that the real state of the US airlines can be found.
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Disappointed with the United service at IAD. The 5:15pm flight departure is now expected to leave at 7:38pm, after multiple delays. Inbound flight had to go back to the gate due to mechanical issues. Asked the gate agent for an alternate and got a rude response. Poor service overall.
January 19, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Disappointed with the United service at IAD. The 5:15pm flight departure is now expected to leave at 7:38pm, after multiple delays. Inbound flight had to go back to the gate due to mechanical issues. Asked the gate agent for an alternate and got a rude response. Poor service overall.
Building Agents with OpenAI Agent SDK - blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/building-int...
Building Agents with OpenAI Agent SDK - {"Mat's Random Thoughts"}
You’ve probably noticed by now that we have a lot of AI Agent/Agentic Python frameworks. To list a few – n8n, Pydantic AI, Crewai, OpenAI SDK, Microsoft’s AutoGen, LangChain, LangGraph, Google’s Agent...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Building Agents with OpenAI Agent SDK - blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/building-int...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Spring AI - blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/retrieval-au...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Spring AI - {"Mat's Random Thoughts"}
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful pattern that enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding their responses in your specific documents and data. While GPT-4 is incredibly capabl...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Spring AI - blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/retrieval-au...
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More details in OpenRouter’s 2025 State of AI report
State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
More details in OpenRouter’s 2025 State of AI report
Episode#6 - AI Investment Bubble - Is there one? This podcast delves into the current state of the AI market, exploring whether there is an AI bubble and the implications of recent investment trends.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Episode#6 - AI Investment Bubble - Is there one? This podcast delves into the current state of the AI market, exploring whether there is an AI bubble and the implications of recent investment trends.
open.spotify.com/episode/1FYm...
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Most frustrating experience at Mumbai International airport with @lufthansa airlines. They keep postponing the flight departure and no announcements on what is causing the delay. Almost 15 staff roaming around lost and zero customer appreciation to explain why.
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Most frustrating experience at Mumbai International airport with @lufthansa airlines. They keep postponing the flight departure and no announcements on what is causing the delay. Almost 15 staff roaming around lost and zero customer appreciation to explain why.
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MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin:
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MiniMax M2 & Agent: Ingenious in Simplicity
MiniMax M2 was released on Monday 27th October by MiniMax, a Chinese AI lab founded in December 2021. It's a very promising model. Their self-reported benchmark scores show it as …
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October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin:
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...
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Just like the late 90s Internet bubble, the AI bubble is real and will burst. When that happens some companies will go down and retail investors will hold the losses. But AI is here to stay, just like the Internet when it was reborn after the dot com bust.
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Just like the late 90s Internet bubble, the AI bubble is real and will burst. When that happens some companies will go down and retail investors will hold the losses. But AI is here to stay, just like the Internet when it was reborn after the dot com bust.
As per some experts the future involves humans not touching the code. Assuming these tools get to that level of maturity to solve complex enterprise systems, get ready to rewrite these systems every year as the models get better.
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
As per some experts the future involves humans not touching the code. Assuming these tools get to that level of maturity to solve complex enterprise systems, get ready to rewrite these systems every year as the models get better.
Just another morning at Munich international airport!
October 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Just another morning at Munich international airport!
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25+ minutes of taxing for landing and takeoff at ORD Chicago airport is a test of human patience. Reminder to self to avoid this airport.
October 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
25+ minutes of taxing for landing and takeoff at ORD Chicago airport is a test of human patience. Reminder to self to avoid this airport.
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Wrote up my initial impressions of the brand new Claude Sonnet 4.5 - I think it may live up to Anthropic's claims of being the "best coding model in the world", for the next few weeks at least!
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the “best coding model in the world” (at least for now)
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 today, with a very bold set of claims: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building …
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September 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Wrote up my initial impressions of the brand new Claude Sonnet 4.5 - I think it may live up to Anthropic's claims of being the "best coding model in the world", for the next few weeks at least!
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/...
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Exploring multi-agent systems 🤖 with LangGraph and build a research assistant 📚 blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/building-mul...
Building Multi-Agent Systems with LangGraph | {"Mat's Random Thoughts"}
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September 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Exploring multi-agent systems 🤖 with LangGraph and build a research assistant 📚 blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/building-mul...
When Carmer says to hold on to Mag 7 stocks then I want to do the opposite.
"So many people trade Mag 7 stocks rather than owning them, says Jim Cramer"
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"So many people trade Mag 7 stocks rather than owning them, says Jim Cramer"
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So many people trade Mag 7 stocks rather than owning them, says Jim Cramer
'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer talks what is ahead for the Magnificent Seven.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
When Carmer says to hold on to Mag 7 stocks then I want to do the opposite.
"So many people trade Mag 7 stocks rather than owning them, says Jim Cramer"
flip.it/kkwkmz
"So many people trade Mag 7 stocks rather than owning them, says Jim Cramer"
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