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Quinton Maki

@qmaki

SDE at AWS building developer tools at scale. Writing about AI, infrastructure, and the messy parts of software engineering.

San Francisco, USAJoined March 2026

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Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

Apr 13 · 9 min read · A couple weeks ago, Anthropic told the world they'd built something too dangerous to release. Claude Mythos Preview, their newest frontier model, could autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities i

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I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code

Apr 1 · 8 min read · I've been building a site for a client - a portfolio and booking site for her hair and makeup business. It's not quite ready to launch yet, but it's close. While I was putting it together, I set up th

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My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

Mar 25 · 9 min read · I have a desktop PC that I've been rebuilding for years, swapping in a new GPU here, a new CPU there, same case, same weird cable management in the back that I keep telling myself I'll fix. The whole

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It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet

Mar 21 · 10 min read · A blog post called "I'm OK being left behind, thanks" hit the top of Hacker News last week with over 800 points and 670 comments. The author, Terence Eden, made a simple argument: if AI is really as t

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The Resume Arms Race Is Over and Nobody Won

Mar 19 · 8 min read · There's a particular kind of absurdity to the modern job application process that I think about a lot. You take your resume, paste it into ChatGPT along with the job description, and ask it to optimiz

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Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code

My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet

The Resume Arms Race Is Over and Nobody Won

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Quinton Maki

About

Available for

Quinton Maki's blogs

Recently published

Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code

My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet

The Resume Arms Race Is Over and Nobody Won