AI Tidbits
LinkedIn Highlights, June 2025 - AI Agents Edition
Build smarter AI agents with six open-source tools and a bonus toolkit that optimizes Llama prompts...
13th Jul 2025
Build smarter AI agents with six open-source tools and a bonus toolkit that optimizes Llama prompts by 45%
Eugene Yan
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
matt.sh
lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation
Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation
Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week.
day 1: lematt
day 2: netmatt
day 3: email 2018
day 4: web 2018
day 5: local nets
I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
AI Tidbits: AI...
Agent-Responsive Design: Rethinking the web for an agentic future
How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
17th Nov 2024
How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
Cal Newport
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
a week ago
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more
The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
One Useful Thing
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge
7th Aug 2025
Eugene Yan
Image search is now live!
A web app to find similar products based on image.
14th Jan 2017
A web app to find similar products based on image.
Eugene Yan
How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
13th Aug 2023
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
Frank’s Ramblings
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
23rd Dec 2021
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone.
If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
Eugene Yan
Product Evals in Three Simple Steps
Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
23rd Nov 2025
Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
AI Tidbits
LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open...
2nd Jan 2025
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open multimodal vision models from Meta, an open-source Perplexity alternative, and easy LLM fine-tuning
David Rozado...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
6th Apr 2022
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Win Vector LLC
Text as a “Market for Lemons”
I would like to write a bit about text. That is: technical writing, legal briefs, or even an opinion...
2nd Dec 2025
I would like to write a bit about text. That is: technical writing, legal briefs, or even an opinion piece such as this note. Such writings make up much of our society and form a “marketplace of ideas.” Texts are now very cheap to produce using large language models (LLMs). […]
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week!
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
One Useful Thing
Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
2 weeks ago
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
Alex Strick van...
Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are...
4th Feb 2025
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are my notes on the chapter.
Overview and Core Philosophy
“Data will be mostly just toil, tears and sweat.”
This is how we start the chapter :) This candid assessment frames dataset...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Open Science and Science 2.0
11th Aug 2012
Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about...
13th Jan 2020
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor.
Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA
February 2, 2024.
2nd Feb 2024
Marcus on AI
“A model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a...
A lot of code is being written by AI, but what does it mean?
1st May 2026
A lot of code is being written by AI, but what does it mean?
The Gradient
Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
19th May 2017
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there.
The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
Eugene Yan
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
10th Apr 2022
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Blockchain explained simply
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
20th Apr 2021
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
Jaz's Blog
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99%
Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter.
As a...
24th Sep 2024
Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter.
As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
Eugene Yan
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?
3rd Nov 2025
Strange Loop Canon
What happened in the 2010s?
decoding a mystery
2nd Jun 2025
Eugene Yan
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
7th Apr 2024
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
Arguing with...
My coding philosophy
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
13th Jan 2026
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Human log loss for image classification
12th Sep 2017
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Masuję powięź, by uwolnić napięcia
1st Apr 2024
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
Jaz's Blog
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
19th Feb 2025
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more.
The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
Eugene Yan
Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
5th Nov 2023
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
Made by Ollin
A Video History of Self-Driving Cars
27th Aug 2018
Society's Backend:...
How AI companies get around data regulation
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
Don't Worry About...
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
Anil Dash
The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators
Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the...
7th Oct 2025
Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmels's show and the fact that we're seeing a shockingly rapid move towards the type of censorious media control typical of most authoritarian regimes.
But there's a...
matt.sh
AWS VPC: A Reintroduction (or, how to allocate 5 million IPs in 5 minutes)
AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction
or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2...
24th Jan 2022
AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction
or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2 commands, 5 minutes.
A Starting
Do you know how many services AWS has these days?
In [1]: import boto3
...:
...: s = boto3.session.Session()
...:...
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
29th Apr 2024
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
One Useful Thing
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
It's not just chatbots anymore
18th Feb 2026
It's not just chatbots anymore
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations,...
10th Aug 2023
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations, sometimes even devolving into vulgar opinions rather than objective facts.
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
3rd Oct 2023
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
fast.ai
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
25th Aug 2022
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
Solving the decision...
one document, two hands
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
20th Jul 2026
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
Machine Learning for...
Coding with AI is getting even better
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
28th Feb 2025
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
AI for Software...
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server!
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
1st Aug 2025
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
The Berkeley...
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This...
1st Jul 2026
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine...
fast.ai
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
What analog and AI education both get wrong
17th Feb 2026
What analog and AI education both get wrong
Mind Prison
We Have Made No Progress Toward AGI | LLMs Are Not Intelligent | Inspecting AI's Internal Thoughts
LLMs are braindead, our failed quest for intelligence
21st Apr 2025
LLMs are braindead, our failed quest for intelligence
AI Snake Oil
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
17th Nov 2022
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the...
1st Mar 2026
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers.
The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its ethos of curiosity and creativity fostered unprecedented collaboration across disciplines. Artists,...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
1st Feb 2025
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
matt.sh
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 1: hyperdjango
hyperdjango
Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning
2026. Welcome!
To kick off spring...
20th May 2026
hyperdjango
Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning
2026. Welcome!
To kick off spring cleaning, the first project I’d like to release
is: hyperdjango.
What is hyperdjango you may
ask?
You could jump ahead into all docs at the hyperdjango hyperdocs hypersite and
find...
AI Tidbits
LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better...
4th May 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better agent for coding tasks, Karpathy's LLM tips, and financial hallucination research
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
2nd Oct 2024
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
29th Jul 2020
I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Jaz's Blog
Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O
For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of...
10th Jan 2024
For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView.
The AppView is a piece of infrastructure that aggregates posts, likes, follows, etc. from all across ATProto and merges them into a consistent view of the...
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
9th Oct 2022
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
Dylan Huang Blog
6 Things I Would Improve About Dify.AI
After using Dify.AI extensively for building a demo, here are six key improvements I'd like to see...
11th Nov 2024
After using Dify.AI extensively for building a demo, here are six key improvements I'd like to see in this powerful prompt engineering tool based on my hands-on experience.
AI as Normal...
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
5th Aug 2026
Early evidence from two case studies
David Rozado...
The Political Preferences of LLMs
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
2nd Feb 2024
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
maragu’s blog
Choose boring technology and LLMs
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed...
8th Nov 2024
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw...
Ollama
Ollama: all aboard open models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and...
9th Jul 2026
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and many incredible angel investors.
The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
30th Jun 2022
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another.
Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Why are papers without code but with results accepted?
11th Jun 2014
Don't Worry About...
Welcome to Moltbook
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
2nd Feb 2026
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
Alex Strick van...
First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model....
8th Apr 2025
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model. This was taken from a post originally made on Twitter, so please excuse the terseness.
First impressions:
a bit too eager to jump into a deep research task even when I just ask a...
One Useful Thing
Against "Brain Damage"
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
7th Jul 2025
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
David Rozado...
Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research?
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
2nd Mar 2023
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
Zach Seward
What was Quartz?
2012–2025
7th Apr 2025
Mind Prison: Notes...
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
14th Feb 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
Sam Altman
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Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Images have power, I hope....
10th Apr 2026
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no...
The Gradient
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
Introduction
Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
3rd Aug 2024
Introduction
Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
Max Woolf's Blog
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
22nd Dec 2025
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
PromptArmor Blog
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
20th Mar 2024
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
Society's Backend:...
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
5th Sep 2023
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
Max Woolf's Blog
The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably is With Parquet and Polars
Never store embeddings in a CSV!
24th Feb 2025
Never store embeddings in a CSV!
David Rozado...
An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective
Introduction
28th Oct 2024
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE President’s Note: Designing a Safer Digital World for Kids
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems,...
1st Jun 2026
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems, which weren’t designed with them in mind. One‑third of the world’s Internet users are younger than 18, according to UNICEF, yet these systems shaping their daily lives were built for...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)
Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to...
1st Apr 2026
Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: My new sigfile is unstoppable; TBL on the future of the web (2006); Wonder Woman sweater pattern; Unpatchable drug cabinets; 50-building mural; DRM v (the...
David Rozado...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
6th Apr 2023
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
20th Jan 2023
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Mind Prison
AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No
Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
18th Dec 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
Armin Ronacher's...
Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres
It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building
agents
somewhere. Everybody does it. Building...
3rd Nov 2025
It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building
agents
somewhere. Everybody does it. Building a good agent, however, brings back
some of the historic challenges involving durable execution.
Entirely unsurprisingly, a lot of people are now building durable...
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
29th Sep 2023
maragu’s blog
I own my LLM chat history, and so should you
Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my...
24th Oct 2024
Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my professional and personal life. These thoughts-in-writing are important to me, and that’s why I keep a history of them on my own machine. And so should you.
Rachel Thomas, PhD
How Immune Cells Communicate
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here.
A key obstacle hindering medical...
5th Feb 2024
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here.
A key obstacle hindering medical research for a range of diseases is our lack of understanding of the immune system. Harvard Professor Wayne Koff described his decades of HIV research, “slowly, over time, we began to...
Dylan Huang Blog
APIs Over UIs: Agents Are the Future Interface to Everything
11th Feb 2026
seangoedecke.com RSS...
AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated
5th Dec 2025
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
29th Mar 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
matt.sh
Claude Hooker: do you come here often?
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claude-hooker
The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has...
1st Aug 2026
img,video{width:100%}
claude-hooker
The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has been how does a world
leading ‘AI productization lab’ continually generate such shitty amatuer
globally distributed software and services over and over again? It’s
almost like...
Eugene Yan
Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
21st Jun 2026
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
Eugene Yan
The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
2nd May 2021
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
fast.ai
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech...
16th Feb 2026
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones
The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
1st Dec 2023
The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
Strange Loop Canon
Aligning Anthropic
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
2nd Mar 2026
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Dylan Huang Blog
What's the fuss about MCP? (code examples)
31st May 2025
Artificial Ignorance
The Chatbot Wars Are Over. What Comes Next?
Spoiler alert: ChatGPT won.
3rd Sep 2025
Spoiler alert: ChatGPT won.
Weighty Thoughts
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020
Reflecting on the Past Year
13th Jan 2021
Reflecting on the Past Year
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
Strange Loop Canon
Why Coase needs Hayek
sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
2nd May 2026
sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
Don't Worry About...
Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought...
2nd Aug 2026
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels.
Eugene Yan
Building a Strong Data Science Team Culture
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
12th May 2018
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
Eugene Yan
A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why?
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
3rd May 2020
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
One Useful Thing
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
20th Apr 2025
New models and new thresholds
The Berkeley...
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into...
10th Jan 2026
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects.
Many imaging systems produce measurements...
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
7th Feb 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
27th Oct 2025
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Don't Worry About...
Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That
Why can’t you build it?
1st May 2026
PromptArmor Blog
Slack AI data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor
20th Aug 2024
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI in Writing a Problem?
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
3rd Apr 2026
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
Solving the decision...
guitars and javascript - the case for jank
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
14th Apr 2025
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
Mind Prison: Notes...
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
4th Oct 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
One Useful Thing
Freeing the chatbot
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
2nd May 2024
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
One Useful Thing
Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
26th May 2026
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
1st Nov 2015
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 129: Personal Superintelligence
August 1, 2025.
1st Aug 2025
AI as Normal...
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
Alex Strick van...
Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse
I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm....
3rd Jun 2025
I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm. Since this is sort of a priority for being able to follow along with the Hamel / Shreya evals course with my practical application, I’ll take another stab using a tool with which I’m...
Ollama
NVIDIA DGX Spark
The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and...
13th Oct 2025
The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and efficiently out-of-the-box.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal?
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree...
17th Jun 2024
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree search. Going back months, the “Q*” leak…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Can AI diagnose mental conditions within a single conversation?
30th Jan 2024
matt.sh
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 6: kvestigate (investigate k*)
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage...
6th Jun 2026
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes
cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is
going on?
Say hello to kvestigate your
kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability...
matt.sh
AI Is This Correct?
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output.
The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
Mind Prison
Make Authenticity Great Again
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
2nd Aug 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
matt.sh
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed
Did you know you can get a live feed of...
30th Nov 2020
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed
Did you know you can get a live feed of every trade in the stock market?
Unlike other market APIs which tell you “don’t request too many symbols” or set hard caps on what you can request, here you can just ask for the...
Weighty Thoughts
The Boring Phase of AI
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
4th Dec 2025
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
Strange Loop Canon
What would a world with AGI look like?
21st Jan 2025
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange.
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
1st Jul 2023
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
IEEE Spectrum
The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models,...
1st Dec 2025
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which...
matt.sh
APFS Object Map Recovery (free)
APFS Object Map Recovery
I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS...
19th Nov 2019
APFS Object Map Recovery
I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS partition. Here’s the notes.
If you only care about the answer, jump to the last section.
Kernel Panic
macOS hard panicked on me with a graphics driver corruption error...
Sam Altman
Quora
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
21st Apr 2017
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other. So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora.
Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
maragu’s blog
23 skills I wrote with my AI
My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
20th Feb 2026
My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
25th May 2023
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
Ollama
Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's...
30th Mar 2026
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.
AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop
It's been an eventful year
8th Sep 2023
It's been an eventful year
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Outside of the bubble, AI is Black Mirror
5th Dec 2025
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Avoiding worry driven development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a...
11th Sep 2020
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
14th Jan 2025
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32a -- Interventions: training a baseline model
I'm rounding out my series of posts on
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from...
4th Feb 2026
I'm rounding out my series of posts on
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)"
by seeing how I could train the best base model I can from scratch on my own hardware.
I started by training one in two days on my RTX 3090,
and found that while it was a...
maragu’s blog
Headless software
How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
20th Apr 2026
How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
The Gradient
AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd
The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
Marcus on AI
Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI
Good news, for once.
14th Jul 2026
Eugene Yan
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
Mind Prison
Intelligence Is Not Pattern-Matching | LLM AI Is Probabilistic Pattern Recognition | How to Perceive...
Perceiving The Difference: LLMs And Intelligence
5th May 2025
Perceiving The Difference: LLMs And Intelligence
Society's Backend:...
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
1st Mar 2024
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train models, and benchmark LLMs
Max Woolf's Blog
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata
Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects
2nd Jan 2015
One Useful Thing
Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
One impressive step on the curve
23rd Apr 2026
One impressive step on the curve
Rachel Thomas, PhD
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15th Dec 2019
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
Solving the decision...
Feature flags
An introduction to feature flags
8th Aug 2020
An introduction to feature flags
One Useful Thing
The Shape of the Thing
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
12th Mar 2026
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
David Rozado...
The political preferences of Grok
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
9th Dec 2023
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
Eugene Yan
Tech in Asia - My Journey in Data Science and Advice for others
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
26th Jul 2017
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
3rd Oct 2022
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
AI as Normal...
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
Andrej Karpathy blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
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21st Jun 2021
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Sam Altman
American Equity
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual...
27th Nov 2017
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP.
I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible—the better the country does, the...
maragu’s blog
Do we still have time for human code review?
I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future, we software developers won’t be looking at our...
5th Jan 2026
I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future, we software developers won’t be looking at our production code anymore.
Stories by Andrej...
Yes you should understand backprop
19th Dec 2016
IEEE Spectrum
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
1st Apr 2025
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
AI as Normal...
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Marcus on AI
Scaling hasn’t gotten us to AGI, or ‘superintelligence’, let alone AI we could trust. What do we do...
Pointer to a new essay by the author, in The New York Times
3rd Sep 2025
Pointer to a new essay by the author, in The New York Times
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
AI Tidbits: AI...
The rise of autonomous agents
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
19th Nov 2023
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
Eugene Yan
My first 100 days as Data Science Lead
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25th Sep 2017
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
matt.sh
sqlalchemy: the async-ening
SQLAlchemy: The Async-ening
Background
SQLAlchemy is one of the seven wonders of the modern Python...
24th Apr 2021
SQLAlchemy: The Async-ening
Background
SQLAlchemy is one of the seven wonders of the modern Python ecosystem1.
SQLAlchemy recently released 1.4 (2021-03-15) as their first step to a long-term-sustainable SQL ORM architecture. Version 1.4 is an intermediate release until 2.0 can...
Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
3rd Feb 2025
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
Society's Backend:...
Run Your Own Race
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
2nd Apr 2024
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
David Rozado...
The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse...
8th Sep 2021
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes)
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
21st Jan 2023
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
Eugene Yan
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
31st Jul 2022
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
Don't Worry About...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Sam Altman
The United Slate
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
12th Jul 2017
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state. A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change.
I believe in creating prosperity...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
16th Oct 2023
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Mind Prison: Notes...
Users prefer wrong answers when written by AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
26th May 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
Marcus on AI
Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
A new case in point
3rd Jan 2026
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Does AI have a dirty mind, too?
16th Apr 2019
Society's Backend:...
An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
3rd Oct 2023
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
Alex Strick van...
Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its...
15th Mar 2025
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its heart it’s an extension of what I worked on with my translation package tinbox. (The new project uses translated sources to bootstrap a knowledge database.) Building in an...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
They Fearmonger About "Communism" Because They Can't Oppose Real Problems
And Other Notes
2nd Jul 2026
Eugene Yan
My Journey from Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada
How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
27th Feb 2020
How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
Weighty Thoughts
How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
11th Mar 2026
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
Zach Seward
AI news that's fit to print
My talk at SXSW 2024
11th Mar 2024
AI Tidbits
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents v2
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
1st Jun 2025
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
AI as Normal...
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
11th Jun 2026
Coding agents as normal technology
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