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“Gwern was right when almost nobody else was. Reading this after GPT-4 exists is eerie — the predictions hold up better than most academic papers from the same period.”
“To stop the machines from lying, they have to cite their sources properly. And spoiler, so do the AI companies.”
“The moment I read this I understood why async/await felt off. The 'color' metaphor is perfect — it explains a real language design flaw that no amount of tooling can fully paper over.”
“This reframing hit me hard. We optimize for the wrong thing constantly — writing code that's easy to add to instead of easy to get rid of. The section on 'copy-paste is not evil' is particularly good.”
“The framing is useful precisely because it's binary. Most founders don't actually know which state they're in — they assume alive without running the numbers. This forces the calculation.”
“Most teams skip evals and regret it. This is the most practical guide I have seen.”
“If we can understand what is happening inside these models, we can actually verify alignment claims”
“Small autonomous cells beating big teams. Relevant for any startup org design.”
“Most people leave tens of thousands on the table over a career by not knowing this stuff. Patrick is the best technical writer on career topics for engineers — practical, specific, and genuinely useful.”
“Instead of asking how to succeed, ask how to fail - then avoid that. Deceptively powerful.”
“Open datasets for robotics could do what ImageNet did for computer vision”
“Manipulation is the hardest unsolved problem in robotics - this is the best primer I have found”
“Wish I had read this before our first 100 sales calls. Save yourself time.”
“Annual physics roundup from Nature - broad view of where science is heading”
“The best CSS Grid tutorial on the internet. Interactive examples make it click.”
“The shift from hydraulic to electric signals a move from research demos to commercial deployment”
“Data-driven analysis showing the energy transition is happening faster than models predict”
“If you use Next.js, this explains why barrel imports were killing your build times”
“Best explanation of model formats and quantization - essential for anyone serving models locally”
“Every major tech company is now investing in humanoid robots - this breaks down where the field actually stands”
“Agree or not, this is the strongest case for why alignment is harder than most think”
“The single most useful mental model for anyone making decisions about systems they did not build”
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