love when mrdoob spent a decade making shadows, lighting & other shaders simple one-liners and then claude gets all the credit lol

A few researchers at Anthropic have, over the past year, had a part-time obsession with a peculiar problem. Can Claude play Pokémon? A thread:

Your growth dashboard in the early days should be the result of constant user-level session audits. Obsession is the key word. Tools like Mixpanel are one approach but I’ve also seen great insights with limited samples using tools like Fullstory.

Ethan Mollick We are in the era of $5 Uber rides anywhere across San Francisco but for LLMs weee

This decade is going to be great for people who are constantly confused if they want to be a Designer, Product Manager, or Engineer.

i asked gpt4.5 what’s a deep truth that most people are not aware of and then i kept asking 1. discomfort isn't just inevitable; it's essential. chase friction relentlessly.

Quantity leads to quality austinkleon.com/2020/12/10/qua…

I wish more people were taking seriously the possibility that Ezra Klein and the leadership of the AI labs are raising: that AGI is a real possibility in the near future. You don't have to buy it yourself, but leaders & policymakers need to consider the possibility it is true.

With Hantavirus in the news right now due to recent tragic news of Gene Hackman's wife, I am reminded of the stories from Mark Smolinski of the first identification of a Hantavirus outbreak in the United States in the early 90s. Mark went on to serve as an EIS officer with the

The AI skills gap isn't about coding or prompt engineering—it's about systems thinking. Companies scrambling to hire LLM experts are missing the point. We need people who understand both the business process and how AI can transform it.

This piece by John Gruber on Apple’s botched “Intelligence” has me completely floored. I’ve read Daring Fireball for 23 years and he has never come close to this level of criticism about the company. It reads like an obituary, and I agree with every word. daringfireball.net/2025/03/someth…

Much of the wisdom for managing humans applies to managing AI as well. “Because it is easier to monitor something with which you are familiar, if you have a choice you should delegate those activities you know best.” - Andy Grove in “High Output Management”

Why is silicon valley always relevant 😭

Gemini 2.5 Pro really is impressive... "Can you create a simple 3d car simulator with Three.js in a single HTML? Please add clouds, mountains, a road, some trees and a train going around. Make sure it works on mobile."

Cryptography 101

If you use AI models a lot it is not hard to tell which are optimized for the benchmarks and which are actually big advances.

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“Because it is easier to monitor something with which you are familiar, if you have a choice you should delegate those activities you know best.” - Andy Grove, “High Output Management”

“Because it is easier to monitor something with which you are familiar, if you have a choice you should delegate those activities you know best.” - Andy Grove, “High Output Management” x.com/aakashgupta/st…

Update for the small number of residents who normally have their waste collected from an alleyway:   Significant snowfall coupled with continued freezing temperatures leads to alleyways full of snow. Residents who normally receive alley service should bring their material to the