Best Writing Series
A selected path through the essays that best represent my work.
5 posts
How Frontier LLMs are Trained and Served
2026-05-03 · 23 min read
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.
I Watched Eric Jang Rebuild AlphaGo So You Don't Have To
2026-05-25 · 22 min read
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…
Mandate of Heaven: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
2024-12-23 · 37 min read
On X, I (anonymously) follow many AI researchers, jailbreakers, academics and prominent figures from both open- and closed-source research labs. It honestly feels like the closest thing to being in the room with these influential individuals and participating in the broader…
Thank You for Your Hard Work
2026-05-25 · 9 min read
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.…
The AI Ouroboros
2026-02-25 · 5 min read
Or: The Market Discovers That Humans Were Load-Bearing