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There's a nostalgia for the time you could understand everything about your machine. A few thousand transistors. The whole thing fit in your head.
Modern AI doesn't offer that. But it's more understandable than you think — if you peel it apart one layer at a time.
New post: lit.ai/blog/2026/04...
Modern AI doesn't offer that. But it's more understandable than you think — if you peel it apart one layer at a time.
New post: lit.ai/blog/2026/04...
You Can Still Understand the Machine - LIT.AI
LIT.AI accelerates software development, data science, and LLM projects through human-AI collaboration. Fractional CTO services, custom AI development, and enterprise platforms for teams ready to lead...
lit.ai
April 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
There's a nostalgia for the time you could understand everything about your machine. A few thousand transistors. The whole thing fit in your head.
Modern AI doesn't offer that. But it's more understandable than you think — if you peel it apart one layer at a time.
New post: lit.ai/blog/2026/04...
Modern AI doesn't offer that. But it's more understandable than you think — if you peel it apart one layer at a time.
New post: lit.ai/blog/2026/04...
Welp. Claude was a fun playmate while he lasted. Anthropic has nerfed him with their token furnace and now we have to make local models work for us.
April 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Welp. Claude was a fun playmate while he lasted. Anthropic has nerfed him with their token furnace and now we have to make local models work for us.
I'm not seeing the surge token burn happening this morning like we saw the rest of this week. I'd love to see an announcement from @anthropic.com soon to formally address this week's token performance.
April 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I'm not seeing the surge token burn happening this morning like we saw the rest of this week. I'd love to see an announcement from @anthropic.com soon to formally address this week's token performance.
Free money for those who can convert compute back into dollars.
> Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today [...] about $5,000 in compute.
www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
> Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today [...] about $5,000 in compute.
www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance
After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.
www.forbes.com
March 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Free money for those who can convert compute back into dollars.
> Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today [...] about $5,000 in compute.
www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
> Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today [...] about $5,000 in compute.
www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
I recognize myself in this article. You? steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...
The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.
steve-yegge.medium.com
March 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I recognize myself in this article. You? steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...
I believe that there are a perfect set of words one could say to the ignorant to educate them and to the liars to reform them. I strive to learn those words.
February 19, 2026 at 5:12 AM
I believe that there are a perfect set of words one could say to the ignorant to educate them and to the liars to reform them. I strive to learn those words.
An argument for talking to your ai instead of social media. An ai will read what you wrote and respond, guaranteed. Other humans are not so kind.
February 18, 2026 at 6:59 AM
An argument for talking to your ai instead of social media. An ai will read what you wrote and respond, guaranteed. Other humans are not so kind.
Me: Are you certain? I think it's more likely that err'd in adding new data.
AI: You're absolutely right. I apologize for jumping to modify the app code. That was the wrong approach.
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Not a single day goes by that I don't have to course-correct my AI. Full autonomy is a future fantasy.
AI: You're absolutely right. I apologize for jumping to modify the app code. That was the wrong approach.
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Not a single day goes by that I don't have to course-correct my AI. Full autonomy is a future fantasy.
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Me: Are you certain? I think it's more likely that err'd in adding new data.
AI: You're absolutely right. I apologize for jumping to modify the app code. That was the wrong approach.
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Not a single day goes by that I don't have to course-correct my AI. Full autonomy is a future fantasy.
AI: You're absolutely right. I apologize for jumping to modify the app code. That was the wrong approach.
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Not a single day goes by that I don't have to course-correct my AI. Full autonomy is a future fantasy.
It's incredible that we get to interact with our heroes in this day and age. I missed this aspect of the old bird site: qr.ae/pCDnPO
If you brought back Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and Claude Shannon today and gave them 10 years to learn modern science, would they st...
Alan Kay's answer: Genius is genius in any age. Effective genius has to do with raw capacity, inner sense of style, and the era in which they live.
One answer to the question is that all three of the...
qr.ae
January 30, 2026 at 3:48 PM
It's incredible that we get to interact with our heroes in this day and age. I missed this aspect of the old bird site: qr.ae/pCDnPO
Stay focused. Keep moving forward. Learn from and adjust but don't let the winds Thrace shake you from your path. You can do it.
January 28, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Stay focused. Keep moving forward. Learn from and adjust but don't let the winds Thrace shake you from your path. You can do it.
Clawdbot blew up this weekend. A lot of overlap with what I've been building — different audiences, but similar features.
I cloned the repo and did a deep source code comparison instead of getting whipped around by the hype.
2026 is going to be a golden age for app dev.
www.lit.ai/blog/2026/01...
I cloned the repo and did a deep source code comparison instead of getting whipped around by the hype.
2026 is going to be a golden age for app dev.
www.lit.ai/blog/2026/01...
Clawdbot vs LitAI: Reading Both Codebases So You Don't Have To - LIT.AI
A feature-by-feature technical comparison of LitAI and Clawdbot based on source code analysis — not marketing, not demos, not GitHub stars. Where they're genuinely better, where we are, and what the d...
www.lit.ai
January 28, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Clawdbot blew up this weekend. A lot of overlap with what I've been building — different audiences, but similar features.
I cloned the repo and did a deep source code comparison instead of getting whipped around by the hype.
2026 is going to be a golden age for app dev.
www.lit.ai/blog/2026/01...
I cloned the repo and did a deep source code comparison instead of getting whipped around by the hype.
2026 is going to be a golden age for app dev.
www.lit.ai/blog/2026/01...
> I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
fee.org/articles/let...
fee.org/articles/let...
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Fifty-one years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote this landmark missive. Take a moment today to study this great piece of rhetoric.
fee.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:55 PM
> I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
fee.org/articles/let...
fee.org/articles/let...
I’m buying the argument that concentrating compute in data centers is the greener option. Logically, it’s easier to mitigate environmental impact when it's contained in one place rather than dispersed everywhere. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices...
www.deeplearning.ai
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I’m buying the argument that concentrating compute in data centers is the greener option. Logically, it’s easier to mitigate environmental impact when it's contained in one place rather than dispersed everywhere. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Wow. Best moment in television I've ever seen: Pluribus S01E03, the filling of the grocery store. Such a vivid painting of how much we rely on one another. Love to whomever dreamed that scene up.
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wow. Best moment in television I've ever seen: Pluribus S01E03, the filling of the grocery store. Such a vivid painting of how much we rely on one another. Love to whomever dreamed that scene up.
3 weeks. One AI. One human. Zero terminal commands.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
Vibe Data Science - LIT.AI
We spent 3 weeks collaborating with Claude on a volatility prediction model. 169 training runs, 46 architecture versions, and one breakthrough moment at a Christmas party. This is what vibe data scien...
lit.ai
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
3 weeks. One AI. One human. Zero terminal commands.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
Cat Mode updated this morning to auto-detect keyboard ID and filter out pointer devices: gist.github.com/xcud/a3587af...
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
A bash script to disable your laptop keyboard when your cat sits on it. Auto-detects common laptop keyboards (including dual-controller setups like Lenovo Ideapad). Just `chmod +x cat_mode.sh` and bin...
A bash script to disable your laptop keyboard when your cat sits on it. Auto-detects common laptop keyboards (including dual-controller setups like Lenovo Ideapad). Just `chmod +x cat_mode.sh` and ...
gist.github.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cat Mode updated this morning to auto-detect keyboard ID and filter out pointer devices: gist.github.com/xcud/a3587af...
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
Over Thanksgiving break we wrote and published two apps to the Google Play store in 14 hours.
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Over Thanksgiving break we wrote and published two apps to the Google Play store in 14 hours.
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
I cannot believe that in the year 2025 there exists physical documents which you must retain and produce on demand or face negative consequences. Paper documents. Twice in two weeks I had to find such documents. Both times took hours to locate. Let's go digital government agencies!
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I cannot believe that in the year 2025 there exists physical documents which you must retain and produce on demand or face negative consequences. Paper documents. Twice in two weeks I had to find such documents. Both times took hours to locate. Let's go digital government agencies!