Pigsty Blog Articles

Polanyi's tacit knowledge explains the 70% ceiling of AI agents: real intuition, feel, and judgment do not serialize cleanly. They grow, if at all, through practice.

AI is a multiplier. It amplifies depth and mediocrity alike. In an age where answers are cheap, questions are the real currency. There is nothing to hide about writing with AI.

When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. "Build your own AI" goes from idea to reality.

Anthropic's new research gives us the first direct look at causally steerable emotion vectors inside a large language model. That should change how we think about AI.

GitHub Release | Release Note v4.2.0 Release Note Highlights Aligned with PostgreSQL out-of-band minor updates: 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22. Total PostgreSQL extension coverage reaches 461 packages. Kernel updates across Babelfish, AgensGraph, …

Ontology is database modeling. The word's only function is to make people who don't understand databases think they're looking at something new — and happily pay a thousand times more for something old.

MinIO's repo is officially archived and abandoned. And how AI Agents helped bring MinIO back from the dead.

Same-day production support for new PG minors is the core message of Pigsty v4.1. In this release cycle, Pigsty and AWS/EDB were among the very few to announce production readiness for PG 18.2 on day one.

Codex 5.3 xHigh pushed my workflow past a tipping point: writing code is no longer the scarce resource. The real leverage is design quality and engineering acceptance. This is the practical loop I use to ship reliable software with AI agents.

A mediocre local who knows the terrain beats a genius parachuted into unknown territory. Intelligence without context is idle. An agent without a runtime is vapor.