Engineering.
All Remiam work tagged Engineering — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 17 Aug 2026→
Thinking is a setting now
Visual Studio 18.9 shipped on 11 August with a thinking-effort control in the model picker. How hard the model reasons is now a dial you set per task, and it bills accordingly. That makes reasoning depth a design decision, not a vibe.
- 9 Aug 2026→
Ten weeks to name a valve
Blue Origin lost a 98-metre rocket on 28 May. On 5 August it named the cause: a main oxygen valve on one of seven engines. The interesting number is not the valve, it is the ten weeks.
- 12 Jul 2026→
Reuse is the feature, not the afterthought
On 9 July a single Falcon 9 booster flew for the 36th time, a reuse record. The number is impressive on its own, but the useful part is the discipline behind it, and what it says about building systems designed to be flown again.
- 5 Jul 2026→
When inference is almost free
The price of running a capable model keeps falling by roughly an order of magnitude a year. That does not just make AI features cheaper, it moves the line for where you can put a model in the first place.