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Making agents fast - what I've learnt over the last 12 months

Practical lessons on speeding up AI agents: inference speed (TTFT vs tok/s), tool call traces, building the tooling agents want, and hardware and sandboxing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
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What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses

Preparing to interview Robert Caro.

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Celebrating SIM Cards

It’s time to celebrate a little win. The other day, my mom contacted me saying her 10-year-old iPhone wouldn’t turn on. After getting a hold of the device and doing some family IT support, I concluded the battery was dead. So I bought her a new (old) one on Walmart (SE 3rd g...

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Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models

How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier ...

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A New Kind of Chemistry

A New Kind of Chemistry

Thanks to Kyle Schiller at Marathon Fusion for conversations and information that informed this essay.

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Quoting Ben Hylak

every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath.

except for our product, of course.

in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much.

we're special that way.

— Ben Hylak

Tags: model-context-protocol, ai

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Extremely brief history of PDP computers

I don’t know why I started to put this together. These machines fascinate me, because so much of early computing/hacker type culture happened on them. I started writing a table, but realised a timeline would be more intuitive. In this graph, the price is for a minimal confi...

The Silicon Underground
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IBM’s 2018 Red Hat acquisition

IBM’s 2018 Red Hat acquisition

It was eight years ago, on Oct 28, 2018, that IBM announced its intention to acquire Red Hat, the Linux vendor, for $34 billion. Its Aug 11, 1999 IPO had been the 8th largest first-day gain in the history of

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You can just ask AI to do things

One of the most important skills in working with AI is agency: being willing to try new and ambitious things. This is true for what you build, but it’s also true for how you build. AI models are improving so quickly that most of us are bottlenecked1 on noticing that AI agent...

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Quoting Ted Sanders

In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a single vari...

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Deus ex machina

Deus ex machina

Perhaps what’s real is simply that which won’t go away.

The Old New Thing
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C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using make_self and immediately converting it to the projected interface

You are taking the scenic route.

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GitHub Octoverse 2026

GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the imp...

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Psychometrics, vaccines, meat, Kowloon, luggage destruction

escapes, art films, ultra-processing, packing, grug, USSR, AMA

Experimental History
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Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it)

Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it)

links ‘n’ updates

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Psychometrics, vaccines, meat, Kowloon, luggage destruction

escapes, art films, ultra-processing, packing, grug, USSR, AMA

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This Week in Source Control: 28 October 2026

Releases, advisories, and articles from across version control and forges

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The October inflection point for vibe game development

I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've reached a new in...

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Gadget Review: SoundPEATS CC3 Pro Bluetooth Headphones ★★★★⯪

These are easily the most comfortable headphones I've worn. I've literally had them clipped around my ears all day without noticing them. The good folks at SoundPEATS have sent me their latest cans to wrap around my lugs. I'm a big fan of these new-style "clip on" headphones. Rather than encasing your ears, or sticking way down into the wax-mines, these clip over your ear. It isn't a tight…

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The Unbalanced Group Theorem

The classification of finite simple groups (CFSG) has been called the biggest theorem in mathematics. It is big, not necessarily in terms of its importance, but in the sense that its proof developed over the course of decades and thousands of pages of journal articles. Two days ago Axiom announced it had formalized the proof […]

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