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.

Escape Budget

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

The customers that created Nvidia's AI boom are becoming large enough to build their own silicon. Hugging Face points to where Nvidia expects the replacement demand to come from.

Structured Errors in Go

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Go gives you errors as values and, since 1.21, structured logging in the standard library. The two do not meet: context is known deep in the call stack, and the decision to write a log record belongs at the boundary. A small type closes ...

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.