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Dinner for Two: Most Memorable Meals in 2025

Tech Things: Netflix is buying nostalgia. Disney is buying OpenAI. OpenAI is buying time.

Dinner for Two: Sigiri

Coding agents suck at microservices

I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

Tech Things: TPUs power the Death Star

Towards a language for optimization

Neural Architecture for Dummies

Debugging when everything is on fire

Cathedral Builders Probably Shouldn't Use Coding Agents

Coding Agents can Manage Other Coding Agents

Tech Things: Robotics has its GPT2 moment, Data has its Oil Moment

A complete dump of the lore of Silksong as I understand it right now

Founders Guide: how to get smart people to work for you for free

Tech Things: OpenAI Can Never Claim AGI is Here

Averaging 10+ PRs a day with Claude Code

From The Archives: Theory of Programming

The mechanics of censorship

Movie Review: Thoughts on Lawrence of Arabia

Tech Things: OpenAI's Magic Money

Etc Journal Club: The State of AI, Agents, MCP, and Reflections on the Industry

Tech Things: Financing my Klarna Doritos Locos Taco

We’re all senior engineers now

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Transformers

Tech Things: OpenAI Announces Another GPU "Strategic Partnership"

The elegance of movement in Silksong

Tech Things: the point of crypto is breaking the rules

One of my best friends is dead and I didn't even get a free churro

Enshittification is our fault

Why are people excited about the GPT-5 router?

We created an IRL League of Legends

Tech Things: Genie’s Lamp, OpenAI can't make graphs, Anthropic is also here, Where is everyone else?

Building a SQLite CLI in less than an hour without looking at any code at all

Silicon Valley is Wrong about Federal University Funding

Tech Things: More Windsurf Drama

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: RNNs

Notes from an Indian Wedding

Tech Things: What on earth is going on with Grok?

Founders Guide: VCs are People Too

Dinner for Two: Nowon

Tech Things: Meta spends $14b to hire a single guy

Decency is more important than policy. Rank Mamdani.

Civ 7: City Planning

A Few Quick Thoughts on Apple's "Illusion of Thinking" LLM Paper

Fix the root, not the fruit

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Deploying Big Models in 2015

Civ 7: War Strategy and Tactics

TV Review: Thoughts on "Andor"

Deep Learning is Applied Topology

Tech Things: xAI screws up its system prompts, again

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Neural Turing Machines

Tech things: OpenAI is Still an Unaligned Agent (?)

Colleges have an education problem

The latest Trump Executive Order Creates a Police State

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Complextropy Redux

Tech Things: Tesla, Waymo, and Self Driving Cars

Tech things: OpenAI buys Windsurf, Google retains its lead, and where the hell is Apple?

Contra Scott (and Rux) on Who's to Blame for Populism

Notes from the SF Party Scene

The tariffs aren't even INTERNALLY coherent

Tech Things: Gemini 2.5 and The Bull Case for Google

Civ 7: End Game Strategy

Why We Can't Have Conversations Anymore and My Problems with Right Wing Epistemology

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Relational Recurrent Neural Networks

Dinner for Two: Leitao

Civ 7: Military Strategy in Antiquity

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: VLAEs

The Five Year Old Test

Founder's Guide: Rules for Product Design

Civ 7: First Thoughts

Meditations on AI and the Future of Business

Tech things: Deepseek, but make it cheaper

On Towards the Stars: Executing a Religious Victory

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Relational Networks

Founder's Guide: First time founders think about product, second time founders think about theses

On Towards the Stars: Executing a Culture Victory

Dinner for Two: Foxface Natural

Tech Things: Inference Time Compute, Deepseek R1, and the arrival of the Chinese Model

Movie Review: Joy Luck Club

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: OG Attention

Founders Guide: Prioritize Revenue and Profit over Growth

Dinner for Two: Setting the Table

On Towards the Stars: Executing a Diplomatic Victory

Ilya's Papers to Carmack: Graph Neural Networks