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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…