tech-things

Tech Things: xAI screws up its system prompts, again

Once is coincidence, twice is enemy action. Also, you really should not be using LLMs as fact checkers.

May 17 •

Tech things: OpenAI is Still an Unaligned Agent (?)

A walk through memory lane as we dissect OpenAI's history of weird corporate structures

May 7 •

Tech Things: Tesla, Waymo, and Self Driving Cars

Tesla gets rocked in earnings. Waymo keeps on keeping on.

Apr 23 •

Tech things: OpenAI buys Windsurf, Google retains its lead, and where the hell is Apple?

$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.

Apr 20 •

Tech Things: Gemini 2.5 and The Bull Case for Google

Google's ability to control its own destiny means it can pursue technical strategies that are simply out of scope for its competitors. This is…

Mar 29 •

Tech things: Deepseek, but make it cheaper

I. A few years ago, around 2018-2019, there was a study that was making the rounds about how smiling would literally make you happier, regardless of…

Feb 10 •

Tech Things: Inference Time Compute, Deepseek R1, and the arrival of the Chinese Model

When I was in highschool, I took the American Math Competition 12 exam, commonly known as AMC 12.

Jan 24 •

Tech Things: OpenAI is an unaligned agent, part 3

Back in the early 2000s, Google was making waves as a fundamentally new kind of company.

Dec 28, 2024 •

Tech Things: AI Benchmarks, O3, and the Future of SWE

I haven't been writing the "Tech Things" series long enough to claim that there are any long running themes of this blog, but one theme that you could…

Dec 23, 2024 •

Tech Things: OpenAI is an unaligned agent, Part 2

AGI — short for artificial general intelligence — is a concept that is constantly shifting meaning.

Dec 14, 2024 •

Tech Things: GPT Pro and the state of AI

OpenAI made waves over the last few days because of leaked-then-confirmed news of a $200 per month GPT pro mode. A few folks have taken this as…

Dec 10, 2024 •

Tech Things: OpenAI is an Unaligned Agent

Imagine you were talking to an alien.

Sep 26, 2024 •

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