Hi, I’m Vlad 👋

I’m a software & AI architect, founder, and Microsoft MVP on AI. I write and speak about machine learning in general and AI in particular. Follow me on Substack or plain old RSS.

Here are some of my highlights from the past decade:

– Co-founded ZenAIos, where we build AI solutions for the public and private medical sector.
– Co-founded NRGI.ai, a startup focused on forecasting energy prices and connecting small businesses with energy suppliers. As the technical co-founder, it was exciting to know my price forecasts were used by big names such as Electrica and Hidroelectrica.
– Partenered with some old friends and joined Strongbytes as Head of AI to try and create a kick-ass outsourcing company. Before that I had served as technical director for Maxcode, also focused on outsourcing.
– Co-founded NDR – an AI conference, the first of its kind in Iaşi – along with the friends at Codecamp. Handled the agenda, scouted for speakers and MC’d every edition.

You’ll find some of the apps I’ve built on GitHub and on the Chrome Web Store, while videos of some of my favorite talks can be found on YouTube.

AI and Liability

More generally, liability concerns could mean that many current use cases for agents won’t be commercially viable. Companies may not be able to profitably operate AI lawyers, doctors and media influencers if they are held responsible for what they say and do.

We’re OK with this outcome. There’s nothing in the law that requires us to accommodate AI systems if they are fundamentally untrustworthy, just as we don’t need to accommodate untrustworthy human systems.

-- Bruce Schneier

Accidental anonymity

putting your art, writing, expression out to be judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people lack bravery.

-- Tom MacWright

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

The tooling as it exists today promotes absolutely nothing like the focus required to apply it judiciously.

-- David Wilson

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

moral status does not appear just because the machine can emit text in the first person.

-- Armin Ronacher

Significant raise of reports

Overall I think we’re going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. When the software had to be pressed to CDs or written to millions of floppies, it had to survive an amazing quantity of tests that are mostly neglected nowadays since updates are easy to distribute. But before this happens, we have to experience a huge mess that might last for a few years to come! Interesting times…

-- wtarreau

The machine didn't take your craft. You gave it up.

The real danger is that people stop thinking. The actual trap is engineers letting the tool carry the cognitive load they were meant to build – The abdication of reason from within.

I don’t see any of this as a tragedy. Because the capacity for good craftsmaship remains. The same tools that let someone drift into shallow work are the tools that let someone else build at a level that was previously impossible.

-- David Abram

Notes on using Codex with Azure OpenAI

A quick way to extend OpenAI’s quotas.

Addy Osmani - 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

Your code is a strategy memo to strangers who will maintain it at 2am during an outage.

-- Addy Osmani

Simon's LLM Predictions for 2026

[Sandboxing ]isn’t just about LLMs, but it becomes even more important now there are so many more people writing code often without knowing what they’re doing.
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Being able to read a detailed specification and transform it into lines of code is the thing that’s being automated away. What’s left is everything else, and the more time I spend working with coding agents the larger that “everything else” becomes.

-- Simon Willison

Clipit 1.0 released

Refactored the codebase into a better-looking, pip-installable library and made the CLI a one-command uv tool.