Why Now

Breaking down complex technologies into simple sentences and attempting to answer "why" these technologies will "now" be used in production.

By Alex Mackenzie

Articles

• Tracebit: Going From the “Top 1%” to 100%
• Announcing our Investment in Tracebit's $5M Seed Round

Jul 9, 2024 • Alex Mackenzie

• Recursive Language Models ("RLMs")
• 2026 has got itself a new acronym

Jan 9 • Alex Mackenzie

• Maze: A Different Type of Security Company
• Announcing Our Investment in Maze's Seed; and their Series A led by Theory Ventures

Jun 11, 2025 • Alex Mackenzie

• turbopuffer
• cache money

Dec 9, 2024 • Alex Mackenzie

• Browserbase
• APIs for The Internet

Dec 2, 2024 • Alex Mackenzie

• Cursor - beyond the hype
• I’m only human, and perhaps LLMs are too

Sep 16, 2024 • Alex Mackenzie

• Flox
• Containers, without containers

Aug 7, 2024 • Alex Mackenzie