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The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,091 posts.
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Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
Somehow I forgot to blog my site: https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/ . I created it back in March 2023 as a clearinghouse for online resources t...
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AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
After 2+ years and a tremendous waste of energy and money, my firm Calm Company Fund resolved a lawsuit against us on very favorable terms. What started as one of the most challenging periods of my life became an unexpected masterclass in using AI to level the playing field against well-funded opponents. If you’re…
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Why agents are bad pair programmers
LLM agents make bad pairs because they code faster than humans think. I'll admit, I've had a lot of fun using GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code this month.…
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LLMs are cheap
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.
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AI Angst
My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this…
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How I program with agents
This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs , covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how careful prompting can replace traditional web search…
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Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
The shameless spin around Stargate UAE
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A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema do…
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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October …
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Reverse engineering Claude Code
I’ve been curious about what happens inside Claude Code so I’ve spent a couple hours digging through prompts that it sends back to Anthropic.
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Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Re: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts There was a post recently that was dissing AI Skeptics. While the post is funny at times, I feel like it’s absolutely and completely missing the point of the skepticism. Or at least I feel that it is glossing over some massive pain points of said skepticism. Let’s go over some of…
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Knowledge Management in the Age of AI
My personal website
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Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
Note: This post comes with a NotebookLM podcast (1linked at the bottom), and three generated audio recordings. You can read the conversation I had
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What was Radiant AI, anyway?
A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion’s controversial AI system and its legacy
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I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.
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I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now
The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.
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LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?
How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.
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Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities
Reviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications.
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Prompt engineering playbook for programmers
Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners
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The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac
I’ve been sitting on this draft for a few days now, partly because I thought it would turn down the bitterness, and partly because I kept asking myself ...
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
AI, science, education, & ethics
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A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
How the Darwin-Gödel Machine rewrites its own code to improve, and whether we can trust it
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Claude Code Is My Computer
I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
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The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead
The Unreliability of LLMs & What Lies Ahead
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The rise of judgement over technical skill
As AI removes technical barriers, judgement becomes the key differentiator.
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Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally
Why is DeepSeek-V3 supposedly fast and cheap to serve at scale, but too slow and expensive to run locally? Why are some AI models slow to respond but fast once…
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The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity
Well for a quick weekend recap I’m going to look at which 3rd party SDKs and API calls I can find in the big 4 Android chat apps based. We’ll be using free data from AppGoblin which you can feel free to browse at any of the links below or on tables. Data is collected via de-compiled SDKs and MITM API traffic.