ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansApril 1, 2026 Data Pipelines in 50 Tokens ilo now handles the full fetch, parse, transform, aggregate, write cycle. The builtins that made it possible.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansMarch 23, 2026 From 1,696ns to 3ns: Five Layers of VM Optimisation The full performance story of ilo's VM. Tree-walker to bytecode to register VM to JIT, with real numbers at each step.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansMarch 22, 2026 What If Bash Had Types? ilo as a Shell for AI Agents Unix pipes have lasted 50 years because the model works. ilo takes the same model and adds types.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansMarch 21, 2026 Tokenizers Don't Care About Your Abbreviations A short-naming convention for ilo, tested against cl100k_base. The tokenizer already handles common English words in one token.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansMarch 20, 2026 Stealing From LuaJIT and V8: What Works in Rust and What Doesn't I tried to port performance tricks from LuaJIT and V8 to a Rust bytecode VM. Some translated beautifully. Others fought the language at every step.
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