The model you need can shrink while AI keeps getting bigger
Andrew Ng was arguing for data-centric AI in 2022. Four years later, small models have become dramatically more capable even as frontier compute keeps expanding.
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Rust can fund maintenance now. It still can't buy maintainer context
Rust's first Maintainers in Residence program funds six contributors. Its most useful lesson is elsewhere: money can reserve time, but it cannot instantly buy the trust and context maintenance requires.
Berninox doesn't make the toothbrush recyclable. It makes the disposable part smaller
The Berninox 316 separates two lifetimes: a 316L stainless-steel handle that stays, and a small multi-material head that wears out. Less dramatic than zero waste, but more useful.
These hippie houses survived because construction never really ended
Handmade Utopia returns to Northern California’s self-built homes half a century later. What endures is less a style than an ability to repair, extend and adapt.
This kitchen does not rise with the flood. It starts 70 cm higher
Sala Kin Khao is not amphibious: its floor stays fixed 70 cm above the ground. Its real strategy combines a threshold, a 3 m grid, dry construction and parts that are easier to inspect and repair.
$40 in parts does not yet make a $40 sip-and-puff controller
Caleb Kraft's prototype brings sip-and-puff electronics down to about $40. Its code shows a capable gamepad architecture, but a testable assistive device costs more than its BOM.
49 interfaces show when AI stopped only answering and started acting
The AI Interface Museum lines up 49 interfaces from 2011 to 2026. Their evolution says less about model capability than about the human role: command, prompt, converse, edit, then supervise.
This house gains a courtyard by deleting its living room
In Seoul, Saekdong House removes the old living room to restore a courtyard, moves floor area into an annex and keeps the air-raid shelter. Renovation begins by redistributing what exists.
Neramit's 900 m² roof starts with a six-metre constraint
Boonserm Premthada calls Neramit non-architecture. The useful move is more concrete: start from six-metre stock tubes, reduce offcuts and make one roof perform several jobs at once.
Corrosion simulation belongs between tests, not instead of them
At DTU, a model links water films, geometry and PCB leakage current. Its useful role is not replacing climate tests but exploring parameters between experiments.