Murat
Shortly after I joined MongoDB research, we ran a TLA+ workshop. It was a two-day ordeal. We had a 1.5 days of instruction on TLA+ and syntax, after which we tried to help people get started with modeling. People liked learning about TLA+ on the first day, but except for a person or two, we didn't...
Murat
The transformative power of LLMs in coding has been irrefutable, and it feels like we are living through a magical computing renaissance. On the socials, we hear impressive numbers of lines of code generated, features delivered, and bugs fixed. But, the macroeconomic indicators seem to be still...
Murat
As I mentioned in my previous post, I traveled to San Jose at the end of May for the ACM CAIS conference. On Day 0, I gave a very short talk at the Supporting our AI Overlords (SAO) workshop. This post is the promised summary of our paper, "A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agentic Data...
Murat
Last week, I traveled to San Jose to attend the ACM CAIS conference. On Day 0, I gave a short talk at the Supporting our AI Overlords (SAO) workshop. And yes, I promise to write a summary of our paper, "A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agent-First Data Systems" soon! To start with an...
adelzaalouk
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Murat
Ok, finally getting sometime to put my butt down to write about day 2 of BugBash.Why do so few buildings fall down?Brian Potter, Senior Infrastructure Fellow @ Institute for Progress, Author of Construction Physics newsletter.Buildings rarely collapse. The rate of major structural failing is ...
Murat
These are my notes from the afternoon sessions of BugBash'26. We had a 75 minute lunch break. Nice lunch, but there were no vegetarian entries, which made Peter Alvaro hangry. I don't blame him, I would be too. Informal methodsBen Eggers, Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAIThis was a fun and also...
Murat
I attended the BugBash 2026 these last two days, and had a blast. Here are my notes from the first keynote. I will try to find time to publish my notes from the other talks in the coming days.Keynote: We won, what now?Will Wilson, Co-founder & CEO @ AntithesisThe Antithesis team opened with a...
matt
I'm building a game for ZX Spectrum Next. It's called Deep. The protagonist is a patient waking up in a psychiatric hospital with no memory of how he got there. The Next port has been the hard part. I'd left it relatively late in the day to get the code functional on there. I'm using z88dk with...
matt
These agents are ridiculous. I've been more productive in my personal projects in the last week than I've been in the last 8 years.In the last three weeks I've:Written the +3 disk checker for the Plus3 I've been putting off for 3 yearsStarted the ZX Spectrum Nextgame I've been planning since I got...
Murat
This paper from METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) introduces a new metric for tracking AI progress: the "50%-task-completion time horizon". This denotes the length of software engineering task (measured by how long a skilled human developer takes to complete it) that the AI model can...
Murat
This paper presents SysMoBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate generative AI's ability to formally model complex concurrent and distributed systems. Although the paper is published on January 2026, the AI landscape moves so fast that the models evaluated (like Claude-Sonnet-4 and GPT-5) already...
Murat
In the age of LLMs, syntax is no longer the bottleneck for writing, reading, or learning TLA+. People are even getting value by generating TLA+ models and counterexamples directly from Google Docs descriptions of the algorithms. The accidental complexity of TLA+ (its syntax and tooling) is going...
Notes from the Windows corner
Continuing the previous theme of dabbling with matters agentic. Previously, I’d quite assiduously kept my fingers away from files. This time, I wanted to try something exploratory, switching to the agent for things I was actively stuck on. I was still (very) curious at the latent remaining bug in...