Martin Remy

  • Welcome to the Derangement

    I’ve been reading Ian McEwan’s novel What We Can Know (2025). It’s the first work of fiction that’s held my attention in several years. The real world has been so strange that fiction has felt trite. In spite of being populated by pompous poets and unhappy academics, this book pulled me in. There’s a good… Read more ⇢

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    Welcome to the Derangement

  • Peanut butter and chocolate

    In October 2006, Yahoo SVP Brad Garlinghouse wrote an internal memo that became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto (PBM). … I’ve heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriadopportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer ofinvestment spread across everything we do and thus we… Read more ⇢

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    Peanut butter and chocolate

  • Grateful for Om

    I was saddened to read about the passing of Om Malik last week. I didn’t know Om very well, but our paths crossed in the mid-aughts in San Francisco during the Cambrian Explosion of blogging. As it did for many others, Om’s curiosity and generosity left a lasting impression on me and bent the trajectory… Read more ⇢

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    Grateful for Om

  • The spinning plateau

    The wild elevator ride of winter 2025 Winter 2025 to spring 2026 were a wild elevator ride in AI coding and agents. Claude Opus 4.5 was released in late November and ushered in the era of “I barely look at code anymore” when developers stopped using coding agents inside of their editors and instead just… Read more ⇢

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    The spinning plateau

  • Planting @bot seeds ğŸŒ±

    My always-on assistant The Martin Bot, a Hermes Agent, reads my calendar, keeps my todo list and project notes, and sends me news briefings. Its main feedstock, however, are my daily notes. The daily note cleanup nudge I use Craft daily notes to capture links and jot down thoughts. Throughout the day, I dump links… Read more ⇢

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    Planting @bot seeds ğŸŒ±