Martin Remy

  • 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±

  • The strength of “I don’t know”

    I had a professor in grad school who sometimes threw erasers at students. Paul Halmos was from that generation of reluctant Hungarian emigres who made big contributions to science and computing in the US during and after World War II (and, yes, atomic weapons – although Halmos didn’t work on the Manhattan project as far as I know). I… Read more ⇢

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    The strength of “I don’t know”

  • Suitcase handles

    In life and work, we learn things. We fill suitcases with our learnings. Technical learnings, business and leadership learnings, and heuristics for making decisions. All of these go into our suitcases. Sometimes we make good decisions, and sometimes we screw up. These outcomes go into our suitcases, too. When we share this hard-earned wisdom, instead… Read more ⇢

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    Suitcase handles