https://maxcyrusmayer.com/perspective Notes and essays on quantitative finance, systems engineering, and applied math by Max Mayer. en-us Fri, 29 May 2026 17:55:19 GMT https://maxcyrusmayer.com/perspective/the-path-of-least-resistance https://maxcyrusmayer.com/perspective/the-path-of-least-resistance Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I can't remember the last time I wrote code by hand. On how fast we handed machines our trust, our data, and our craft, and why human nature won't hand it back. https://maxcyrusmayer.com/perspective/the-model-behind-the-model https://maxcyrusmayer.com/perspective/the-model-behind-the-model Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A close reading of the 244-page Claude Opus 4.8 system card, and the circumstantial case that the model you can use is a distilled echo of one you can't — an unreleased frontier model called Mythos.