We had a breakthrough in AI with transformers.
Where’s our breakthrough in AI with alignment?
Started reading "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2015 - 2025" by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavein Leech.
Dense with citations and definitions. Taking my time here. 😮💨
From 6/5/17 in one of my notebooks I wrote down this quote from Andreesen Horowitz - AI Playbook:
AI is the new relational database, about to get into every important piece of software we write.
This seems to have mostly come true in 2025.
I like this definition better. As we learn more about how to manage our words passed to LLMs, I think the nouns we use should change along with it.
Wanted to share a fun little project I built this morning for my 9-year-old daughter: an interactive, retro-styled spelling game that she absolutely loves!🎮 The "8-bit Spelling Game" is a fun educational tool where players hear words through text-to-speech and type them out letter by letter, with cute dolphin animations...
📱 April Update: iOS, AI for free, and more.
My most-used, most-recommended app, just went mobile with an iOS app.
It started as a shortcut for everything, but now with all the LLM models, is my go-to for quickly asking AI questions throughout my day.
Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI (addyo.substack.com).
I think Addy has the right take here.
You can avoid it and fall behind.
But if you go too deep down the rabbit-hole of letting AI write your code, you're asking for problems. Most importantly: skill atrophy.