Martin Remy

  • 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 🌱

    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 🌱

  • 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 émigrés 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 those, as far as I know). I was lucky… Read more ⇢

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    The strength of “I don’t know”