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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…