Good post from Balaji on the "verification gap". You could see it as there being two modes in creation. Borrowing GAN terminology: 1) generation and 2) discrimination. e.g. painting - you make a brush stroke (1) and then you look for a while to see if you improved the

I’ve never shared this publicly before, but here goes: 2.5 yrs ago, I was diagnosed with one of the most painful, life-changing diseases: rheumatoid arthritis The surprising part? I beat it and recovered only when I stopped following my doctors’ advice. Here’s my story 👇

once u get comfortable in firebase its hard to use anything else. hats off, google built a great product.

Substack is just spam these days

Is this The Babylon Bee or what

Humanity has prevailed (for now!) I'm completely exhausted. I figured, I had 10h of sleep in the last 3 days and I'm barely alive. I'll post more about the contest when I get some rest. (To be clear, those are provisional results, but my lead should be big enough)

What silicon valley does to a man

Yesterdays weirdness is tomorrows reason why

freestyle chess finals were awesome

e/acc won. key lesson - never bet against exponential curves because they will win

While Kamchatka is trending due to the quake I want to point out that it's probably the only place on earth where... you can climb an active volcano ski down to the ocean surf in the ice cold water then warm up in a natural hot spring Kamchatka is 10/10 incredible.

“I think that the [AI] devices are likely to be complementary devices, not substitutions.” - Apple CEO Tim Cook, 2025 “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item." - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007

state of work, 2025: multiple gpt-5-high cursor agents run freely in the background while i pet the doggo.

My com skills suffer every day from not being able to translate сферический конь в вакууме into English (or any other language really)

whoever called it "vibe" coding wasn't using models hard enough

I once read somewhere that for all mankind is a prologue to the expanse. I still think about it at least once a week.