Why Ads Are Great—and How They Suck

Most people hate digital ads. But they're actually a great thing. Here's why. First, there are three main players involved in this whole "ad network". 1. The Digital Platform (e.g Google, Instagram, TikTok & soon ChatGPT) 2. You (the user) 3. The [Small

The Growth of Human Guided Software

Honestly, I think that it’s obviously true that 90+% of software will be written by LLMs in relatively short order. But I don’t think it means humans will “write less code.” Even if you put aside the ambiguity about what “AI-written code” means versus “human-written code” i.e.

LLMs are not whole brains

Tldr: Debates about whether (on their own) LLMs are “truly intelligent” or “comparable to human intelligence” are often misaligned. Intelligence emerges from modular interactions—stochastic LLMs plus extensive deterministic infrastructure. This systems-level view provides a clearer, more useful framework for understanding, evaluating, and—crucially—building artificial intelligence. The impulse to

AGI is meaningless, it also already exists

AI, AGI, or ASI are essentially umbrella terms for "everything computers can’t do yet." But if we truly dig into definitions, today’s models are already generally intelligent in significant ways: large language models (LLMs) routinely answer most general questions across countless domains. They might not always

thirty things

Some things took me thirty years to learn. Some took thirty years to say right. The rest make up the count. Over the past year, I’ve been working on this piece: thirty reflections on life, lessons, and observations. I challenged myself to complete it before the end of 2024,