patterns, tunnels, and failing codebases

Friday, August 14, 2026

I built a walled enclosure before the great winter came.

1. AI didn’t just accelerate engineering — it removed the speed limit on failure
2. Yale: single-payer would save $1 trillion and 114,000 lives annually
3. HS2 puts a heritage plaque 40 metres underground — directly beneath the Brunel family tomb
4. One economist, one island, six days — can AI alone write a publishable paper?
5. Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen are funding a replacement for modernism
6. Dan McKinley’s 2015 case for boring technology — still resonating at 361 upvotes