Mike Vincent
Mike Vincent

Mike Vincent

Mike Vincent is an American software engineer and writer based in Los Angeles. Mike writes about technology leadership and holds degrees in Linguistics and Management.

How Machines Hear and Understand Us

Dec 16, 20245 min read

Ever wondered how machines "listen" to us? Not just the familiar “Hey Siri” or “OK Google,” but real listening—turning spoken words into text,...

How Machines Hear and Understand Us

Speed Demon: LLMs’ 600ms Race to Appear Human

Dec 9, 20244 min read

The future of AI isn’t about bigger models or smaller models-it’s about speed. The race to achieve responses in under 600 milliseconds. That’s the...

Speed Demon: LLMs’ 600ms Race to Appear Human

The New Dev's Guide to Externalizing App Config

Dec 2, 20243 min read

You've just finished building your first production-ready application. Version 0.1.0 is humming along perfectly on your local machine, and you're...

The New Dev's Guide to Externalizing App Config

IBM Buys HashiCorp's Terraform and Vault: The End of Free?

Nov 25, 20243 min read

Vault and Terraform just got acquired. Here’s what that means for you—and your budget. · IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp's Terraform and Vault raises...

IBM Buys HashiCorp's Terraform and Vault: The End of Free?

LLM + Mermaid: How Modern Teams Create UML Diagrams Without Lucidchart

Nov 18, 20245 min read

Forget dragging boxes around. Here's how AI-powered devs are generating diagrams with a single prompt. · Every developer and product manager knows the...

LLM + Mermaid: How Modern Teams Create UML Diagrams Without Lucidchart

How Your Code Editor Got Its Superpowers 🚀

Nov 11, 20243 min read

In the beginning, there was the command line. And for a long time, that was enough. · Vi (1976) & Emacs (1985): The Foundation Berkeley, 1976. In the...

How Your Code Editor Got Its Superpowers 🚀