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Looped Transformers, or Recurrent Depth Models

2026-10-17
7 min read1,387 wordsai safetyartificial intelligencecomputer sciencellmsmachine learningpersonalscalingwriting

How looped transformers reuse their layers to reason in latent space, why recurrent depth is suddenly showing up at the frontier, and what it could cost us in chain-of-thought monitorability.

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.

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…

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

2024-12-23
37 min read7,357 wordsartificial intelligencecomputer sciencepersonalwriting

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…