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I read Dario’s The Adolescence of Technology and it’s scary. It assumes the perspective of a top-down ruler, that someone can and will get to control AI. This is taken as a given. Machines of Loving Grace assumes basically the same tone, that there are some “adults” in the room, and they will use AI like a tool to “fix” some supposed human problem, where those problems are framed in a very narrow worldview, say that like disease, poverty, and inequality are bad. (if you can’t steelman those thin...

As the eleventh hour dawns all the pieces start to fall into place. I lived my life knowing this would happen, yet when it is I may be just as unprepared as anyone else. As any self driving car maker knows, predicting doesn’t mean you can act. comma almost has an exaflop. Just one little exaflop. We dream bigger. A gigawatt of power, a million GPUs, 1000 exaflops, a zettaflop. 1e21 FLOPS. 1e27 training runs are now. 100 lifetimes in 1e6 seconds – 2 weeks on my zettaflop machine. But they were ex...

But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on? Robotaxis will start to make obvious economic sense in 3-5 years (note that that’s less than 8 , you don’t have to fully solve self driving cars for this, robotaxis can operate profitably in limited scopes). Unlike Uber and Lyft which are marketplaces, the grow...

This one is for the complainers and whiners . First off, if you think I ever worked for big tech, you don’t know much about me. I had 3 internships at Google, two when I was very young (18/19) and got a great education that paid me, and one where I just wrote open source software . I worked at Facebook in 2011 for 9 months and quit before any shares vested cause I thought the mission of “wasting the world’s time” was dumb. And oh yes the 5 weeks I worked at Twitter hoping maybe it could be diffe...

I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future. Have you thought about how this is going to play out? I understand you may be at a place where you are insecure about money, and that insecurity is what drives you. But why do you think having more money will fix that insecurity? In the future, when labor is fully marginalized and capital is the only force, you wil...

For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try other models today, but now that’s all I’m going to be doing. I’m sure they have a massive influx of users on Claude Code since Opus 4.5, I’ve been recommending it to everyone. But this level of user hostility raises the question, is this really a company you want to rely on in your workflow? First they came for opencode And I did not speak out Because I did not use opencode The first volley of this ...

The first commit to tinygrad was October 17, 2020. It’s been almost three years since we raised money . The company is 6 people now. The codebase is 18,935 lines not including tests. I have spent 5 years of my life working on 18,935 lines, and now many others have put years in as well. And there’s probably 5 more years to go. But this is the right process to compete with NVIDIA. Only a fool begins by taping out a chip; it’s expensive and not the hard part. Once you have a fully sovereign softwar...

I got a lot weird hate for saying Tesla is 8 years away from solving self driving. I stand by that statement. I also think Tesla will solve it first. At least FSD is real AI that you can evalulate the honest progress of, unlike remote control cars that break when the power goes out. I’m not sure this hate is a real opinion, or simply arguments are soldiers political thinking shilling for the stock price. People post screenshots of their 1,000 miles of 100% self driving and for some reason think ...

Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line. I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and gpt-oss in Claude Code and they are all far worse than Opus 4.5. Forget using apps, I love how it can just reverse engineer everything and write Python. Ads and dark patterns BTFO, you are up against an elite computer hacker A...

I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels Apple’s quality is degrading. I spend 10 hours a day on my laptop and would spend any amount of money within reason for a better one. However, everything comes with tradeoffs. My dream laptop is simple, a MacBook with Linux, supported by a company that is user aligned. The first idea is simple, put Linux on a MacBook. Asahi Linux is a good idea, however, it won’t ever be good. Apple is putting more and more stuff into closed source microcontrollers that ha...