Composer 2.5 and the Case for Specialized Models
Cursor's new in-house coding model matches frontier performance at a fraction of the cost. It made me wonder whether the era of the do-everything model is starting to crack.
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2026
“If you can drastically cut cost while matching performance on the one task you actually care about, that seems like the better trade.”
The Quiet Work
The software industry has produced some of the most celebrated fortunes in history. The people who built its foundations are mostly unknown. That gap is worth sitting with.
“The tool exists because of the foundation. The foundation doesn't have access to the tool.”
Maine's Data Center Moratorium and the Case for Smaller AI
Maine just passed the first US moratorium on large data centers. Some will read that as a blow to AI. I think it might be the opposite.
“For many human-scale problems, the bottleneck isn't a lack of parameters. It's a lack of thoughtful application.”
Beyond the Prompt
The fear about AI in software engineering is that it replaces engineers. The more immediate risk runs in the opposite direction.
“When the doing is automated, the deciding becomes the entire job.”