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Andrés Morales

Developer and AI researcher. Writes about language models, frameworks, developer tooling, and open source releases. Covers ML papers, the tech startup ecosystem, and programming trends.
AI risks depicted in a public debate
Artificial Intelligence

NPR Maps 4 Camps in the AI Risk Debate

NPR published a guide that organizes the AI risk debate into distinct camps, from those who fear an existential scenario to those who prioritize current harms. The map comes days after new public warnings from Congressman Ted Lieu. It helps explain why each camp defends such different AI policies.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks28 September, 2026 ago
Diagram of the transactional outbox pattern between a database and a message queue
Programming

Outbox Pattern: How to Avoid the Dual Write

Saving to the database and publishing to a queue are never atomic on their own. The transactional outbox pattern solves this by saving the event as just another row within the same transaction.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks28 September, 2026 ago
Conceptual illustration of AI hallucinations in a search engine with generative summaries
Tech News

AI Hallucinations: Why Google Makes Up Answers

A developer searched Google for an old basketball meme and got a response meant to comfort him over a breakup that never happened. The case exposes a structural problem with generative AI search engines: when retrieval pulls the wrong context, the model writes an equally confident answer, whether it’s true or not.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks28 September, 2026 ago
Simulated self-driving car during genetic algorithm training
Tech News

Genetic Algorithms: How a Car Learns to Park Itself

A genetic algorithm evolves a virtual car, bit by bit, until it learns to park without crashing. The article explains genome, fitness, selection, crossover, and mutation with code examples and hand-calculated outputs.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks27 September, 2026 ago
AI self-referential voice depicted as neural network circuits
Artificial Intelligence

COLM 2026 Paper Finds the ‘I’m Just an AI’ Disclaimer Switch in LLMs

An August 2026 paper shows that the chat template, not the model itself, decides whether an LLM responds with ‘I’m just an AI’ or in first person. The authors found a direction in the activations that reproduces that shift at will.

By Andrés Morales, 3 weeks27 September, 2026 ago
Map of land value tax legislation in the United States, 2026
Tech News

Virginia and Kentucky Enable the Land Value Tax in 2026

The land value tax, Henry George’s old idea, is experiencing its biggest legislative push in decades in 2026. Virginia and Kentucky enabled it, the UK and South Korea elected favorable leaders, and the AI-driven rise in land prices is reviving the debate.

By Andrés Morales, 3 weeks27 September, 2026 ago
DeepSeek DSec: sandboxes that train artificial intelligence agents
Tech News

DeepSeek DSec: 3 Million Daily Sandboxes for Agentic AI

DeepSeek published the DSec paper, the infrastructure that sustains 380,000 concurrent sandboxes to train agents with reinforcement learning. The system creates more than 5,000 environments per second and loads images on demand from 3FS, its distributed file system.

By Andrés Morales, 3 weeks26 September, 2026 ago
PipePipe interface, the NewPipe fork for Android
Tech News

PipePipe: the NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock surpasses 6,200 stars

PipePipe is an independent NewPipe fork that adds SponsorBlock, restored dislikes, and danmaku-style live chats. The project already has 6,200 stars on GitHub and is distributed outside Google Play under the GPL-3.0 license.

By Andrés Morales, 3 weeks26 September, 2026 ago
Illustration of AI risks and global regulation at the United Nations
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Leaders Ask the UN to Control AI as Risks Rise

Tech leaders asked the UN to control the development of artificial intelligence, while Jensen Huang challenged a key figure in the debate and the US Congress added regulatory pressure.

By Andrés Morales, 3 weeks26 September, 2026 ago
Terminal showing the plan mode of an AI coding agent
Tech News

Plan Mode Is Dead: Why Ayman Nadeem Shut Down His App Nuanced

Ayman Nadeem shut down his app Nuanced and published an essay explaining why plan mode, as we know it in tools like Claude Code, no longer solves the problem of keeping humans in the loop on what AI is building. The failure leaves concrete lessons about persistent documents versus ephemeral chat plans.

By Andrés Morales, 3 weeks26 September, 2026 ago

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