These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in Machine Learning In this paper, the question of machine learning is…

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And why this is actually a good thing for human meaning and creativity

Figure 1 This is the technical companion to my sovereign LLM post, which makes the institutional and geopolitical case for small collectives owning their own AI inference hardware. This post…

Figure 1 It turns out that I’m writing a series of posts about practical community infrastructure building. This is the second one. In a previous post I sketched out a case for neo-friendly…

I was listening to an interview of Simon Willison just now, who mentioned that spellcheck is something that used to be really bad, but was now great with LLMs. I'd noticed the same thing when I…

A couple of weeks ago I read this NYT article by Sam Kriss about the telltale signs of AI writing. Then I started seeing them everywhere. Most of the uses are innocuous. They annoy me, but I can…

We have all recently heard that if a piece of writing has been created using AI, then apparently it is likely that it uses em dash punctuation frequently. This is of course very unfortunate for those…

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The Anti-Thesis to the dark forest theory

Reactions to a recent HBR article and my own experience with over-delegation to Claude Code

… or how to process DataFrames with RLMs and DSPy

Claude Code has 37 hidden reactive messages that nudge the agent mid-conversation. Here's how they work and how to build your own.

Generate images from text using Flux 2

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin at GTC 2026. Stripe's Minions agents ship 1,300+ pull requests weekly. Microsoft restructures Copilot leadership. OpenAI signs AWS deal for government AI. Laravel 13 and…

What I learned Claude Cowork Scheduling You can schedule recurring prompts in Claude Cowork. I’m now using it to get a daily AI observability news digest emailed to me every morning. Still tweaking…

Since I’ve been exploring the extended universe of voice AI and voice agents, I’ve met a lot of people working with them in the real world and it’s not just the average customer support bot anymore.…

Things are insane right now, and maybe I’m too. Be that as it may, I feel like I’ve been a broken record for the last 18 months. Maybe longer. Some nights I wake up at 3am, startled, sweaty, and I…

For a decade I told my mentees 'ideas are cheap, execution is everything.' AI broke that aphorism. When execution is free, the only thing that matters is taste.

How a debugging session with a coding agent reminded me of the need to learn things with intention

The era of the identical binary is ending as autonomous agents begin directly mutating source code, fragmenting once-uniform programs into bespoke digital organisms. This post explores the profound…

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I just watched Bernie vs Claude (9 min, youtube) and I have thoughts: This is pure vintage Black Mirror stuff, down to the eerie music, the washed in blue shots, had to do a double take to check if…

opencode’s edit tool doesn’t trust LLMs to give exact string matches.

A quick look at the French AI sloperator Mistral AI

The autoresearch technique promoted by Andrej Karpathy is easily accessible in the pi coding agent.

Run the same large language model in two different interfaces and you'll get what feels like two different intelligences. Not a little different — different enough that you'd swear…

As I logged in on GitHub, I was suggested one so-called trending repository. It was FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2. I then discovered harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo, at some point “number one shit of the…

Last time, I posted a lengthy missive by ChatGPT appraising my new book ailien minds, prompted by Richard Bliss, with some of my own commentary and demurals laced-in. All-told, the effect was that of…

Greatest living human mathematician Terence Tao said this in an interview with Dwarkesh Patel:I’m not sure nowadays that hypothesis generation is the bottleneck anymore. Science has changed in the…

LLMOps Part 13: Exploring the mechanics of LLM inference, from prefill and decode phases to KV caching, batching, and optimization techniques that improve latency and throughput.

OpenAI plans to double its workforce—but as it scales into an AI powerhouse, this open letter argues it’s missing one critical role: a Chief Snark Officer to keep it human.

Yes, slow down this year. The Earendil site looks nice, particularly the use of Departure Mono. There’s a blog too: Interaction: As quantum physicists know, the universe emerges more from how objects…

I spoke today on Design in the Age of Infinite Generativity at the Chennai Design Festival. You can read about the talk in the link about. This post is about my preparation. Tue 10 Mar 2026. Damn!…

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Superhttps://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12bNvidia presented their new model - Nemotron 3 Super, an open hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE model: 120B total / 12B…

By Jonathan Vanian People queue to have their laptops install with OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant at the Baidu headquarter in Beijing on March 11, 2026. Adek Berry | Afp | Getty Images Three…

How do you simulate civilization when you don't understand psychology? You reach for the worst tools available and it turns out that's good enough.

Amy Kay This is a rant. I used to like Etsy, I bought some queer bracelets off of there a few years back and they lasted me a good while. My money went to a shop in LA, and independent artist making…

And yet, though we strain against the deadening grip of daily necessity, I sense there is this mystery: All life is being lived. Who is living it, then? Is it the things themselves, or something…

Earlier this week, Nvidia posted a video featuring their latest iteration of DLSS technology (Deep learning super sampling). DLSS 5 is an AI-powered “real-time neural rendering” process and unlike…

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My friend and colleague Patrick Prill has been writing articles about AI in our industry at a prodigious rate over the last couple of weeks. (Here's the second of yesterday's pieces.) I recommend…

Everyone is trying to go faster, running more agents to run more agents, to open more pull requests to orchestrator agents to then get reviewed by another fleet of agents. The arrival of coding…

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My dislike strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well - documented . But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it…

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Five people sent me the same link on the same morning. That's either a sign the UXR community has fully become a hive mind, or that something important just happened.It was the second…

On Friday, March 20, 2026, I read news that Chuck Norris had passed away. Naturally I went over to Perplexity.AI to see if the story was verified or a hoax. What I encountered was a dystopian…

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