8 bits of advice to flourish at the Recurse Center
A byte-sized guide to developing your taste and agency at the world’s best programming retreat.
Essay
What OpenAI's o1 really means
The AGI is dead. Long live the AGI.
Make games people play
What Paul Graham doesn’t tell you about delighting 7 year olds.
Biology from the bottom up
Initial thoughts on transforming bioengineering into software engineering.
Yesterday's cutting edge is today's table stakes
The past 18 months in AI have been a whirlwind-clusterfuck of acceleration, innovation, and chaos.
Optimising cost, quality, latency
There is a trifecta of variables that just about everyone building generative AI systems cares about — cost, quality, and latency. As is often the case in computing, there is a trade-off between these properties. And all three are bought with the currency of performance.
The blueprint of agency
Why some sail and others drift.