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AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything
Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously purchasing inventory from wholesa
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Two kinds of vibe coding
Back in 2009 I posted a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer on the web: a single HTML file with inline Javascript. Just 329 lines of code, each pixel a tiny table cell. Click to zoom. Watch it iterate. That was about it!
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AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating
Everyone's using AI wrong. Its superpower isn't writing for you. It's reading everything you've ever written and finding patterns you missed.
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I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …
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AI will make formal verification go mainstream
Much has been said about the effects that AI will have on software development, but there is an angle I haven’t seen talked about: I believe that AI will bring formal verification, which for decades has been a bit of a fringe pursuit, into the software engineering mainstream.
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Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
From 2.5 Pro's lighthouse loop to 3 Pro's "Zombie Phoenix" strategy against Red: a full breakdown of why Gemini 3 Pro is a superior long-horizon agent.
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I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
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AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
Some (well-known) consequences of AI automating work
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The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
In 1950, while discussing the recent wave of flying saucer reports over lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple question. There …
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If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?
In 2023, Meta researchers were able to decode images in thoughts from the brain's magnetic fields. What if that's how the brain coordinates it's own global state?
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I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
Yesterday I shared a little program called Mark V. Shaney Junior at github.com/susam/mvs . It is a minimal implementation of a Markov text generator inspired by the legendary Mark V. Shaney program from the 1980s. Mark V. Shaney was a synthetic Usenet user that posted messages to various newsgroups using text…
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
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The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void
WTF moment: Why my native OS refuses to return a "True" value.
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Midjourney is alemwjsl
aadil pickle's internet home
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Last week, I started working on a new side-project. It’s a standard React app partly made up of run-of-the-mill CRUD views—a perfect fit for LLM-assisted programming. I reasoned that if I could get an LLM to quickly write the boring code for me, I’d have more time to focus on the interesting problems I wanted to solve.
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I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.
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Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.
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Richard Stallman on ChatGPT
I define "intelligence" as being capable of knowing or understanding, at least within some domain. ChatGPT cannot know or understand anything, so it is not intelligence. It does not know what its output means. It has no idea that words can mean anything.
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Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
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NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
I’ve spent the last 48 hours completely falling down the rabbit hole of NVIDIA’s Q3 Fiscal 2026 earnings report . If you just skim the headlines, everything looks perfect: Revenue is up 62% to $57 billion, and Jensen Huang is talking about a "virtuous cycle of AI."
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AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
Last month, I met with Eric, a fearless PM at a medium size startup who recently got into vibe coding with Gemini.
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I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now, we got a real jam goin down
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Alignment is capability
Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.
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Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
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The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy
AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
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Touching the Elephant – TPUs
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit
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Everyone in Seattle hates AI
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.