Essays on software, intelligence, and adjacent ideas, alongside a few outside posts I keep coming back to.
March 28, 2026
One way to think about P vs NP is to ask how quickly relational complexity emerges as simple constraints begin to merge.
Cognitive dissonance is not just a psychological discomfort. It is the recursive tension between competing idea-structures that gives intelligence its shape.
The same logical forms that appear in formal systems can reappear inside daily life, cognition, and symbolic thought as higher-order recursions of the same structure.
March 14, 2026
Placeholder for future writing on the program.
We keep pretending the model ends at its parameters, but an LLM that can write, maintain, and reload its own external memory is already more like a system with a second brain.
Rodrigo Pombo • November 13, 2019
A step-by-step walkthrough of reimplementing the core ideas behind React.