Armin Ronacher

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Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/

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When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/1…

Dangerous Technology For Americans Only lucumr.pocoo.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Anthropic suspended Fable and Mythos access for foreign nationals, including its own foreign-national employees.
  • Ronacher argues the shift moved from barring hostile governments to using nationality itself as the access boundary.
  • Europe's structural dependency on US cloud, platforms, and AI feeds a talent drain Ronacher calls a self-reinforcing death spiral.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 117 ↻ 29 ↩ 10 · 5 from the directory shared this · 45d ago

Has been a while since I wrote about agentic engineering, so this time around some learnings of maintaining Pi as a junior maintainer to @mariozechner.at lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi...

Building Pi With Pi lucumr.pocoo.org
View on Bluesky · ♥ 127 ↻ 17 ↩ 3 · 4 from the directory shared this · 65d ago

We've recently made Pi's cache behavior more visible. This site has been debating whether agent harnesses are helping or quietly torching their caches. That seemed like a good excuse to explain how KV caches actually work and how Pi helps (or doesn't). earendil.com/posts/promp…

Prompt Caching In Agents | EARENDIL earendil.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 108 ↻ 10 ↩ 5 · 2 from the directory shared this · 5d ago

I had some vibes that Opus 4.8 was performing worse than older ones for some of uses that are off distribution and now I have the receipts. Latest Opus/Sonnet are causing tool invocation failures on Pi's edit tool when older ones did not! I wrote about it. lucumr.pocoo.org/202…

Better Models: Worse Tools lucumr.pocoo.org
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Recent commentary

One thing I notice more and more is that people think verbal abuse and personal attacks are acceptable, if they are directed at people who don't have a dismissive attitude towards AI and LLMs.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 110 ↻ 4 ↩ 13 · 19d ago

After the Linus post I read a bit more how people judge AI on mastodon and I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe.

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