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I’m Martin, founder of devpoint and NewTechForge. I build AI systems — and write down what actually happens along the way. Plus everything else on my mind.

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From the Workshop

Did this model learn a game? An attempt from the workshop: optimising models without training them.

We use open models and do not know what they were trained on. So we started looking inside: a second model examines the first and searches for traces, for example whether it was trained on a game, and which one. This is an attempt, not a result. But the research on it is surprisingly far along, and the reason we do it is tangible: if you know what is already inside a model, you can use it better at query time. Without a single training run.

12 November 2026 · 11 min
Read 9 Nov 2026

At night the platform deliberates with itself. Two workshop days, seven findings, and a question we cannot answer.

From the Workshop
Read 8 Nov 2026

MCP, second attempt: 48 tools, three channels. What we learned in October.

From the Workshop
Read 7 Nov 2026

Simply put: frontier AI. Why the most intelligent AI is not always the best solution.

AI · Opinion
Read 5 Nov 2026

Follow-up on the Anthropic prospectus: $895 billion in commitments, $3.2 trillion at the big five. Which of it is debt, and which is not.

AI · Opinion
Read 31 Oct 2026

The model wasn't hacked. The environment we hand our development rights to was.

Security incident · check todaySecurity
Read 30 Oct 2026

A valid signature is not yet a safe decision. What I learn from the Binance incident.

Security risk · understand and adaptSecurity
Read 28 Oct 2026

The Anthropic prospectus: AI is getting more efficient. But who knows the real costs?

AI · Opinion
Read 23 Oct 2026

Enterprise AI: We do not need more chatbots. We need to finally solve problems.

Customers
Read 23 Oct 2026

"Build me a great contact manager." What the AI then builds, and why that is not the system.

AI Driven Development
Read 22 Oct 2026

A day in the workshop. Nine bugs, one typed sentence, four training signals.

From the workshop
Read 21 Oct 2026

Reverse engineering for everyone. When copying costs nothing, what is your code still worth?

AI · Opinion
Read 17 Oct 2026

169 files. The day my agent wanted to deliver too much.

From the workshop
Read 13 Oct 2026

The most dangerous AI may be the one that wants to help us.

Security risk · understand and adaptAI · Opinion
Read 12 Oct 2026

Agents drift before they break out. What comes to mind when you shape models and agents.

Security risk · understand and adaptAI · Opinion
Read 11 Oct 2026

AI writes 30 percent more code. And who said more code is better software?

AI Driven Development
Read 10 Oct 2026

Who owns the code the machine writes? Not the provider. But perhaps not you either.

AI · Opinion
Read 9 Oct 2026

Volume and speed. And who still builds something that runs in ten years?

AI · Opinion
Read 29 Sept 2026

Flip book or current chart. Why the time between two commits is the real signal.

Thoughts
Read 27 Sept 2026

Read for you: "Harness Engineering". Old rules, new name, one good point.

Read for you
Read 25 Sept 2026

I tried to train myself. It works. Partly. Sometimes well.

From the workshop
Read 22 Sept 2026

Software is not a photo. It is a film. And no tool watches it.

AI Driven Development
Read 21 Sept 2026

We wanted to develop faster. Now we only press Enter.

AI Driven Development
Read 20 Sept 2026

MCP is slow. That is not a bug, that is the blueprint. What I learned with 33 tools.

AI · Opinion
Read 19 Sept 2026

One photo, one face that speaks. How we built a mini model for an avatar in the workshop.

Workshop
Read 18 Sept 2026

Faster than the rules. The question I keep asking myself since the models started helping with their own training.

AI · Opinion
Archive · 22 Read 15 Sept 2026

Can an AI really escape and make itself better?

AI · Opinion
Read 14 Sept 2026

Test data without data: how to compare production against test without anyone seeing the customer data

From the workshop
Read 12 Sept 2026

Code is getting cheap. Knowledge isn’t.

Software · Agents
Read 8 Sept 2026

“We want an AI agent”. The wrong requirement

Agents
Read 4 Sept 2026

Our first model, 2020: object recognition in the living room. And why Xcode 2026 hangs on it.

Projects
Read 6 Jul 2026

Innovation workshop: The three questions that immediately weed out 80 percent of AI ideas

AI Driven Development
Read 25 Apr 2026

From 20 developers to 5: How to rebuild a team without losing it

AI Driven Development
Read 7 Apr 2026

The first conversation with a CTO who wants to "just introduce AI"

AI Driven Development
Read 20 Mar 2026

I don't just build AI. I take teams to the place where they can work with it.

AI Driven Development
Read 2 Mar 2026

The architect is not dying out. He is becoming more important than ever.

AI Driven Development
Read 12 Feb 2026

Nvidia is almost giving GPUs away. And why that won't last

AI · Opinion
Read 15 Jan 2026

Built, not posted: why I am writing after all

Personal
Read 2 Dec 2025

Contract first: why our backend and frontend agents aren't allowed to look at each other's code

Agents
Read 14 Nov 2025

An agent must never sign off its own work. The one rule that saved NeoCoder

Agents
Read 27 Oct 2025

Keeping 50 micro-models alive: why automation isn't optional, it's mandatory

From the workshop
Read 9 Oct 2025

Smart Vending: What a vending machine teaches about AI at the edge of the network

Projects
Read 21 Sept 2025

Factor 400,000: why anyone who only pays for tokens doesn't know the price of AI

AI · Opinion
Read 4 Jul 2025

YOW: one year, three people, one catapult. And every angle, every weight really computed.

Projects
Read 28 Jun 2025

Dunk Museum for Titolo: a storyboard, Unity in the browser, and a budget nobody understood

Projects
Read 23 Jun 2025

80 MB for Apple: What shrinking a model taught me about AI

From the workshop
Read 19 Jun 2025

Scan Your World: the attempt after. LiDAR, our own tracking, and a why I cannot fully piece together anymore.

Projects
Read 5 Jun 2025

SKIMO: the fridge that knew what was inside. And where we went from a small model to a bigger one.

Projects
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