Tedla Brandsema

Tedla Brandsema

Software Architect & Independent Researcher

Tedla Brandsema is a software engineer and independent researcher based in the Netherlands, working across software architecture, AI systems, Go tooling, and long-horizon engineering.

Recent Projects

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Open-source software, guides, and tutorials.

Yoink

Project

Include full or partial files from local and remote HTTP(S) sources with a simple line-based Go library.

Tagex

Project

Execute struct-tag driven evaluation and mutation logic in Go with explicit, reusable directives.

Recent Writing

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The five most recent articles, essays, dossiers, and memos.

The Frontier That Lasted Three Days

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Claude Fable 5 was public for three days before an export-control letter made it unreachable. That week settled four arguments I'd been having since January, and exposed the borrowed floor that holds the price of everything else down.

On AI-Assisted Writing

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Thoughts on collaboration, authorship, and the tools that extend our capacity to think and write

The Cybersecurity Fire Hose

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Vulnerability discovery is becoming a function of targeted AI compute, turning software security into a fire hose problem of spend, access, and remediation capacity.

Enemy at the Gates

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Alphabet's AI problem is structural, not mainly competitive. If AI systems weaken Google's control over intent capture, they threaten the advertising engine that funds the company while the time left for a serious response keeps shrinking.