Archive - 12 Grams of Carbon

Key ML Papers: 2020 to 2025

My entries for key papers of the last five years

6 hrs ago • theahura

Agentics Meetup Videos and our first AI Takes Series

I suppose newsletters are supposed to also be about the news sometimes?

Sep 10 • theahura

Agentics: Agent Optimized Codebases

What we look for when we turn existing codebases into agent-friendly ones

Sep 7 • theahura

Tech Things: Consider that alignment may not be possible

Describing the camouflage principle. Contra one line of Scott Alexander.

Sep 1 • theahura

August 2026

Agentics NYC Presentation: Software Factories

What they are, how to build them, and pitfalls to avoid

Aug 26 • theahura

18:23

It’s been about a year

Aug 24 • theahura

Is AI ‘structurally’ a centralizing technology?

How well do you know Betteridge’s law of headlines?

Aug 22 • theahura

Tech things: we can’t control the bots

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Aug 15 • theahura

Agentics: understanding the agent stack

Understanding the agent stack from the user's keyboard all the way to the datacenter and back

Aug 12 • theahura

Movie Review: Thoughts on The Odyssey

Sure, Substack needs more Odyssey reviews, why not

Aug 8 • theahura

Agentics: how to build an agent to automate your on call

A walk through of how you might set up an auto-on-call, why these things can fail, and how to think about agentic loops

Aug 5 • theahura

July 2026

Agentics: Personalizing Agents

Videos and slides from our Agentics spotlight event on modifying an AI's personality.

Jul 30 • theahura

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