Salvatore Sanfilippo

Sanfilippo explains why passing tests are not enough and why LLMs could become virtual QA. He also offers a critical reading of the Banne rewrite in Rust.

DeepSeek v4 Flash runs locally on 128 GB, but Sanfilippo shows that the real bottleneck is prefill, not the answer.

Sanfilippo explains why DeepSeek v4 Pro could be the first open-weights model really close to closed systems, and why price remains the decisive problem.

Sanfilippo argues AI is already reshaping programming, but art still depends on human taste, selection, and judgment. He sees today’s worst failures in music, audiobooks, and slop, not in creativity itself.

Salvatore Sanfilippo argues that coding agents should be switched constantly, because the model matters more than the wrapper.