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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

🔥 Hit #1 HackerNews!!!

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

Dec 25, 2025

On Indexing: From Google to Shazam to AI Agents

Exploring different indexing case studies.

Dec 20, 2025

blog meet rlog: A frictionless reading log for your blog

Introducing rlog, a frictionless, local‑first reading log that lives on your blog and helps you track, share, and reuse what you read.

Dec 15, 2025

When NOT to use Pydantic

A dive into Pydantic performance and when to pick a different option.

Dec 9, 2025

FDEs were why I invested in Palantir in 2022 (and sold it all in 2024)

Why the hell is PLTR at $420bn market cap? Does their engineering culture have anything to do with it?

Dec 4, 2025

eBay - Short the User Experience, Long the Stock?

eBay is posting record quarters while systematically destroying user engagement. The platform is dying from the inside while looking healthy on a spreadsheet. Here's the long-dated short thesis.

Nov 14, 2025

Crashing an AI Promo Event

What to ask before buying into an AI agent platform

Nov 9, 2025

A Best Practices Checklist for Myself and My Agents

Development best practices across Python, frontend, infrastructure, security, and databases

Sep 6, 2025