Vinny Carpenter

Black October showed AI finds flaws faster than ever. The bottleneck is remediation: ownership, judgment, delivery. My essay covers what broke and 5 changes that help. #Cybersecurity vinny.dev/blog/2026-10-24-bl…

StillView 5.1 is out. Browse a folder and all its subfolders in one collection, then narrow it with the folder tree or a path search. Text recognition now works even with Apple Intelligence off. Free for Apple silicon Macs on macOS 27. stillviewapp.com

TypeSafe says Jev "can't hallucinate." That zero is a schema guarantee, not a measurement. A well-typed answer can still be wrong. Jev returns decisions, not text — $0.042/M tokens. vinny.dev/blog/2026-10-03-je… #AIStrategy #GenAI

Best AI dev experience: AI becomes the platform, not a chat tab. Diagnose, repair what you own, rerun to green. Ownership first. vinny.dev/blog/2026-09-01-th… #PlatformEngineering #DeveloperExperience #EngineeringLeadership #GenAI

Your switching cost is somebody else's margin. Hyperscalers cheapen accelerators. Nvidia floods open weights. Chinese labs replace American APIs. Stripe bought OpenRouter. Who owns which layer when it settles? vinny.dev/podcast/

400 processes buried my Mac - Claude Code, Ollama, orphaned bun tests, headless Chrome. Every one doing its job. I just couldn't see the whole. Built the 10-row answer: System Headroom, on the Mac App Store. vinny.dev/blog/2026-08-23-my… #BuildingInPublic #macOS #generativeAI

Code is exhaust. The bottleneck moved upstream: context, intent, judgment, and ownership. The 2nd edition of The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack is out. vinny.dev/book #AgenticAI #EngineeringLeadership

System Headroom for your Mac - top 10 processes, memory usage! apps.apple.com/us/app/system…

Could an AI agent join your company tomorrow and deploy correctly — no hand-holding? Most platforms would fail. That's a platform gap, not an AI gap. vinny.dev/blog/2026-08-13-yo… #PlatformEngineering #DeveloperExperience #AgenticSDLC #EngineeringLeadership

I audited my own dividend. It bought shipped apps and a book, not a hammock. An unallocated dividend gets spent anyway, with Jevons as your default portfolio manager and Parkinson running the calendar.