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How We're Using AI to Build Software (And Everything Else)

To me, the real inflection point came at the end of May 2025. That’s when Anthropic—the company founded by ex-OpenAI researchers—released Claude 4, a new family of large language models. For software development, it is said that the previous models produced errors in 30-40% of generated code. Claude 4 is rumoured to have dropped that to 6-10%. It certainly matches my own observations… This drop is not yet another incremental improvement. To me, it’s a phase change. When your error rate drops by that much, it fundamentally changes what’s possible. ...

June 15, 2025 · 14 min · Miguel Branco

The End of Websites: Why We're Moving to a Conversational Web

Websites are dying. Not quickly, but they’re dying. The web has been a collection of pages for 30 years. You click, you scroll, you hunt for what you need. It’s slow and dumb and we’ve all just accepted it. But something’s shifting. Instead of browsing, we’re starting to talk to our computers. And they’re actually talking back. Why Websites Are Broken Here’s what you do when you want car insurance: Open Google. Click through 5-10 insurance sites. Fill out the same form repeatedly. Compare prices manually. Maybe use a comparison site that shows you 3 options instead of 300. ...

February 15, 2024 · 3 min · Miguel Branco

Welcome to notes.spacebase.org

I finally got tired of pretending I’d one day set up a proper blog. This is it. I’ll write here occasionally — thoughts on systems, AI tooling, declarative platforms, and whatever else leaks out of my head. If you’re reading this, you’re either early… or lost. Either way, welcome. Who am I?

January 2, 2024 · 1 min · Miguel Branco