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Thank You for Your Hard Work

2026-05-25
9 min read1,723 wordspersonaltvwriting

I've watched When Life Gives You Tangerines on Netflix in the past month and it was very moving. As I complete this sentence, I detest the word "moving" in it. Moving how? Moving what? To better phrase it, watching this show is getting bombarded by flashbacks from your own life.…

I Watched Eric Jang Rebuild AlphaGo So You Don't Have To

2026-05-25
22 min read4,255 wordsartificial intelligencecomputer sciencepersonalwriting

In April, Eric Jang spent two weeks rebuilding AlphaGo Zero from scratch, and put the result online as autogo along with a long, interactive write-up. Last week he sat down with Dwarkesh Patel for a two-and-a-half hour blackboard lecture on what he learned. The thread that holds…

How Frontier LLMs are Trained and Served

2026-05-03
23 min read4,599 wordsartificial intelligencecomputer sciencepersonalwriting

This article is based on my handwritten notes from Reiner Pope's blackboard-style interview with Dwarkesh Patel, plus cross-checks against the published transcript and Dwarkesh's flashcards made in preparation for this episode of the podcast.

The AI Ouroboros

2026-02-25
5 min read885 wordsartificial intelligenceeconomicspersonalwriting

Or: The Market Discovers That Humans Were Load-Bearing

Claude Code vs. Codex

2026-01-13
10 min read1,814 wordsartificial intelligencecomputer sciencepersonalwriting

I hadn't touched anything code related for over a year by this point. My daily drivers back then were Cursor paired with Sonnet 3.7/3.5. So when I started work on building a CRM for my firm I was eager to play with all the new toys that were available to me. Opus 4.5 had come out…

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2026

32 posts

September

The Weekly Praegustator (7 - 13 September '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (31 August - 6 September '26)

August

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Spring 2026
The Weekly Praegustator (27 July - 2 August '26)

July

The Weekly Praegustator (20 - 26 July '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (13 - 19 July '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (6 - 12 July '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (29 June - 5 July '26)

June

The Weekly Praegustator (22 - 28 June '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (15 - 21 June '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (8 - 14 June '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (1 - 7 June '26)

May

The Weekly Praegustator (25 - 31 May '26)
Thank You for Your Hard Work
I Watched Eric Jang Rebuild AlphaGo So You Don't Have To
The Weekly Praegustator (18 - 24 May '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (11 - 17 May '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (4 - 10 May '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (27 April - 3 May '26)
How Frontier LLMs are Trained and Served

April

The Weekly Praegustator (20 - 26 April '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (13 - 19 April '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (6 - 12 April '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (30 March - 5 April '26)

March

The Weekly Praegustator (23 - 29 March '26)
The Weekly Praegustator (16 - 22 March '26)

February

The AI Ouroboros

January

Claude Code vs. Codex

2024

1 posts

December

Mandate of Heaven: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race