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Compilers
Turning programs into other programs: parsers, interpreters, type checkers, and code generation.
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2026
- 13 min
The Proof You Only Have to Write Once
Generation is cheap, so verification is the bottleneck — and we throw the verification away every time. What if a proof, once written, could be named, shared, and vouched for? A content-addressed commons for verified Haskell, and the move I left for after the semantic-artifact trilogy.
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The Field Exists Now
Alasdair Allan's agentlanguages.dev catalogue turns AI-oriented programming languages from a loose set of experiments into a field with camps, disagreements, and testable claims.
- 27 min
Source Code Is the New Assembly
Closing the trilogy. The artifact you author is no longer source code. It is a typed, verifiable object that carries meaning. Code becomes a lowering target.
- 26 min
The Last Programming Language Might Not Be for Humans
Three futures for programming languages as AI becomes the primary author of code, and why I bet on Haskell.
2023
- 10 min
All beginning is Haskell
How Haskell shaped the way I think about building systems, and why I am still building Haskell tooling years after writing my first monad.