Reality is ruining the humanoid robot hype. Over the past several months I’ve entertained some skeptical thoughts on this market, especially with regards to battery life (mentioned in this IEEE Spectrum feature post). There may have to be a “winter” […]
The humanoid thesis. Here’s a bull case for humanoids of the future. “Enter general-purpose humanoids. Humanoids won’t just fill labor gaps, they’ll do it cheaper, faster, and at scale. At a $50,000 unit price, a humanoid robot is already cheaper […]
How are people using ChatGPT? OpenAI published a paper with data. Tutoring + teaching is 10.2% and create an image is 4.2%. ~ learn more
The rise of async programming. “Async programming is not vibe coding. Vibe coding enables you to write code without getting into the nitty gritty details. Async programming is a workflow for developers to solve more complex problems simultaneously, while still […]
Blink and you’ll miss Claude open sourcing your software. A bug report on popular programming tool VSCode that was closed as ‘out of scope’. “Over a 34-hour session, Claude repeatedly attempted to apply an open license (CC-BY-SA) to private, revenue-critical […]
The dawn of the GBO (Growth Buyout). A slide deck from Slow ventures that’s worth reading quickly, as it’s already a year old. “Industries will be transformed by software via new players competing on the basis of proprietary technology/IP. For […]
Where are all the trillion dollar biotechs? Despite countless innovations, biotech is plagued by shrinking returns. The approval of new drugs per billion dollars in R&D has halved approximately every nine years since 1950. ~ learn more
Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025. “Despite the large interest in agents that can code alone, right now you can maximize your impact as a software developer by using LLMs in an explicit way, staying in the loop. […]
AI needs clinical trials. “Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani shares groundbreaking research on AI’s impact in the workplace through rigorous “clinical trials” at major organizations like BCG and Procter & Gamble. These studies reveal how AI fundamentally transforms work […]
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles. “There are plenty of benchmarks full of numbers. I don’t get much value out of those numbers. There are leaderboards, but I’ve been losing some trust in those recently. […]