Hammer&Anvil

Evidence Gathering in LLMs

What exactly is inference being performed on?

Dec 12, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

Reification Fallacy and LLM Use

Reading some tea-leaves for safer LLM evolution

Dec 10, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

Karl Marx Would Buy GPUs

Maybe he was half right about owning the means of production

Aug 4, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

Economic Currents

Have large companies left room for builders/creators/makers?

Jul 29, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

Windsurf proves startups are complicated for GenAI employees

Jul 17, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

GenAI Reimagined

A counterculture faces off against... something

Jul 7, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

On the Turn of a Phrase

The power to express solutions, and the implications in a prompt-driven world

Jun 29, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

The Foreshadowing

Where the Hammer and Anvil series is going

Jun 27, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

AGI is Irrelevant

Wrong questions are a distraction

Jun 26, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

And So It Begins

Launching a newsletter, and a discussion

Jun 25, 2025 • Reid M. Pinchback

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