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Walter van der Giessen - dev blog

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Software engineering & AI

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

17 Aug 2026

Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade.

I Wanted spawn() for JavaScript Threads

31 Jul 2026

I wanted server-side JavaScript threads to start with spawn(). The missing piece turned out to be a carefully placed eval().

Making My Rust Program Space-Flight Ready

13 Jul 2026

A crate called hugebool ships a 16-byte radiation-hardened boolean. I took the idea further: reads that repair themselves, majority voting for every type, and benchmarks.

Rust Is a Harness

9 Jul 2026

Why Rust will be the language of LLMs. Syntax ergonomics are a depreciating asset while compile-time guarantees are gaining value.