AI

Agents failed to dethrone Google Search

Turns out moats are eternal, especially $200bn/year moats.

Apr 29, 2026

aiscii: Natural Language ASCII animations

Generating live ASCII animations from natural language: some things I found, some things I learnt, sharing.

Apr 13, 2026

Figuring out Claude Code's new /btw command

How does Claude Code's new /btw command work, figuring it out from the minified source.

Mar 17, 2026

Demis Hassabis should be knighted

No glaze but this is a well-deserved glaze post

Mar 4, 2026

I miss the old Claude

The surfacing of a worryingly parasocial relationship between man and AI.

Feb 28, 2026

tropes.fyi: Name and shame AI writing

AI writing bad. Human writing good. But AI coding good. And human coding also good.

Feb 20, 2026

The A in AGI stands for Ads

Had to crunch the ad revenue projection numbers for OpenAI real quick, had enough of the fearmongering and nonsense takes. AGI... now funded by 5x60 second unskippable ads!

Jan 18, 2026

Big Tech's Ugly Duckling: An Engineer's Bet on Snapchat

Analysing Evan's memo, 344 research papers and the AI market to figure out if Snap is underpriced or under the mud.

Jan 8, 2026

The Silence of the LLaMbs

Why won't LLMs shut up? Knee deep in the mechanisms, experimenting, tinkering, understanding why my previous hypothesis did not hold.

Jan 7, 2026

Why LLMs Can't Shut Up

Speculating, hypothecating, contemplating the mechanisms that make it impossible for GPT to stay silent, even when explicitly told to shut up.

Jan 2, 2026

Double: Claude Code Memory Without MCPs and DBs

Forget MCPs: Giving Claude Code persistent memory using markdown files, git and three delightful commands.

Dec 29, 2025

Nvidia Groq Update: Everyone Gets Rich, Patent Warfare Begins

New details on the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal: I was wrong about employees getting screwed, but the real story is worse for GroqCloud

Dec 28, 2025

Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole

The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more

Dec 25, 2025

Indexing: From Google to Shazam to AI Agents

Exploring different indexing case studies.

Dec 20, 2025

Crashing an AI Promo Event

What to ask before buying into an AI agent platform

Nov 9, 2025