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GPT Astra released a couple of days ago and, inevitably, within the hour my entire feed was the same five things: recreating Minecraft in one prompt, painting themselves in MS Paint, ...

The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting for AI tools is usually X, viral GitHub repositories and Hacker News.

Liang Wenfeng might be the most consequential person in AI who has essentially never spoken in public.

When Google DeepMind introduced Genie in 2024, the idea was fundamentally insane - systems that could generate interactive environments from a single image, learning physics, ...

For a long time, the hard part of making things on the internet was making them at all.

In August 2025, Anthropic gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end a small subset of conversations in its consumer chat product, framing the change as an exploratory model-welfare ...

I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped.

On February 22 2019, OpenAI put out a public announcement, covered by some of the biggest names in tech, that went like: OpenAI revealed that it had developed a new text-generation ...

Earlier today (March 31st, 2026) - Chaofan Shou on X discovered something that Anthropic probably didn’t want the world to see: the entire source code of Claude Code, Anthropic’s ...

Your timeline knows it’s great.

If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you’ve seen Anthropic enforcing people to use Claude Code for their subscriptions, blocking tools like opencode from using it ...

The actual architecture of X's recommendation system PS: I worked on this blog extensively before the recent major shifts to the algorithm (funnily finished it a day before ...

Yes, this is literally DOOM, Click to Play You know how GitHub allows you to embed markdown GIFs on your profile README for the longest time - I had a super Mario programming themed GIF ...

I just gave my final end semester exam a couple days ago when I bumped into an old friend and we got into talking and discussing some important topics for the test ...

The Wordle game that started it all I recently restarted playing Wordle each morning because it’s a fun exercise but I just lost my week long streak because the word was… COLIC So I rage ...

So Sam Bhagwat recently dropped a 150-page book on building AI agents, and it’s all around the internet.

OpenAI just put out a very detailed paper and post covering what in my opinion is one of the most important pieces of information for anybody using or building with AI How do People use ...

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When a cryptic billboard led to the most addictive coding challenge of 2025 Optimization problems are quite literally digital crack cocaine.

People are making AI apps that contribute to the society or make others’ lives easier.

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Most AI assistants still feel like they need too much hand-holding.

For a few days, the entire internet looked like it had been passed through a Studio Ghibli filter.

Why I Switched to the Nothing Phone 3a Pro and Can’t Stop Talking About It Caption: Unboxing my phone, and yes I still use BeReal A few days ago, I ditched my old phone for the Nothing Phone ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new rivalry has emerged that’s reshaping the entire industry.

If you don’t care to read this entire thing and just want the verdict - The Price of Intelligence Is Going to Zero.

Coding interviews have been broken for a while.

QR codes have revolutionized everyday interactions, from restaurant menus to contactless payments.

Yesterday, I launched my game The Backdooms - my game inspired by DOOM and The Backrooms (read more about it here) based on my week-long web experiment that packs entire minified HTML ...

Yes, this is literally the entire game.

Image: Zen Browser Introduction: My Complicated History With Firefox As a Pro Open-Source guy, I owe Firefox a debt of gratitude.

In 2017, Reddit unleashed r/Place - a massive online canvas where users could paint just one pixel every 10 minutes.

Remember when searching the web meant sifting through 10 pages of results?

Undertale is a game so iconic that it feels impossible not to know about it.

So, you want to use machine learning (ML) to predict stock prices and build an AI Warren Buffett?

This game is one of the funniest examples of what happens when language models try to play chess without properly tracking the board.

This is my very first blog :).

Introduction: The Growing Problem of AI-Generated Spam on LinkedIn LinkedIn today has evolved into what is one of the biggest networking platforms in the world ...

Introduction Who owns AI-generated content?