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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Tokens are the new computing paradigm on which everything will be remade as computing enters a post-binary era.

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  Tokens are the new computing paradigm. Everything will be re-made on top of it. We’ve had deterministic computers for 80 years, so we confuse “how computers have worked” with “how computers must work.” We’re entering the post-binary era.

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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  Adding advertising into AI chatbot products carries a high risk of backfiring with users.

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  Injecting ads into the current paradigm with AI chatbots runs a pretty high risk of backfiring.

  Meta's Amusing Musespyglass.org

CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Serverless computing was the last chapter of the cloud.

  the cloudGoogle

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  Serverless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.

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  Pharmacy First

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  That's why we're expanding Pharmacy First. The idea is simple: Qualified pharmacists can assess patients, dispense medicines and prescribe treatment for a range of common conditions, helping people get care quickly and close to home.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Frontier Chinese AI labs are moving toward more restrictive licensing terms for their open models.

  China

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  Chinese model makers at the frontier, however, are becoming more restrictive

  interconnects.ai

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Expanding North Sea oil drilling would not reduce UK energy prices, because oil prices are set on a global market.

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  This would accomplish nothing to reduce energy prices, since oil prices are set on a global market and there's not enough crude left off UK shores to influence that number.

  The growing rumblebillmckibben.substack.com

Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.

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  we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.

  The Sorcerer’s Apprenticesecondbest.ca

Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Multi-Paradigm Design for C++

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  Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by James O. Coplien. Twenty years after reading this, the core techniques are still with me. These are commonality analysis, where the purpose is to identify families of systems, and variability analysis, which focuses on capturing the domain parameters that vary. In essence: the foundation of great software design.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Current AI4Math systems largely operate as solvers of isolated, well-defined proofs rather than as researchers that expand mathematical knowledge.

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  Despite these strides, we argue that current AI4Math systems still largely operate as solvers, excelling at isolated, well-defined proof generation rather than as researchers capable of expanding the boundaries of mathematical knowledge.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Exploring, expanding and extracting are three distinct phases, and how you write code, who you hire and how you organise should be completely different in each.

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  So how you write code, how you manage projects, who you hire, how many people, what the org structure is is completely different in the three phases.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.

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  proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

From one piece Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Russia and China are ringed by the most dysfunctional places on the planet because their own security paradigm manufactures failing states.

  ChinaRussia

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  One, you're surrounding yourself by failing states. You can look at Russia and China and they're surrounded by some of the most dysfunctional places on the planet and you go, "Gee whiz, are they unlucky or they complicit?"

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  China and Russia have maritime ambitions without understanding what a maritime paradigm actually requires, and neither one has the prerequisites.

  ChinaRussia

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  So, China and Russia certainly have maritime ambitions, but I'm not clear they actually understand what goes into a full maritime paradigm.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  A composable concurrency paradigm requires a general-purpose cancellation mechanism.

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  But I struggle to envision a general, composable, concurrent paradigm without one.

  From error-handling to structured concurrencyblog.nelhage.com

Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.

  coding agents

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  It’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Nano Banana

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  Nano banana is one of the most incredible, paradigm-shifting models of 2025.

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Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.

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  The modern adherence to the electronic universe is disastrous for humans, and reduces the vitality of the human component.

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  Because I think that the modern adherence to the electronic universe is disastrous for humans, and because it reduces the vitality of the human component. I think it’s restrictive in a way that people don’t realize until it’s too late.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  How verifiable a task is now predicts how automatable it is, the way specifiability predicted it in the 1980s.

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  The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  The best historical analogy for AI is not electricity or the industrial revolution but a new computing paradigm, because both are fundamentally about automating digital information processing.

  energy

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  AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  He works as a fox, not a hedgehog: moving between fields, chasing analogies, and re-proving results he likes with the tools he favours.

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  I'm much more comfortable with the fox paradigm. Yeah. So yeah, I like looking for analogies, narratives. I spend a lot of time… If there's a result, I see it in one field, and I like the result, it's a cool result, but I don't like the proof, it uses types of mathematics that I'm not super familiar with, I often try to re-prove it myself using the tools that I favor.

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  AR is the next paradigm shift in computing, the way the GUI, multi-touch and voice were.

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  The best innovations in computing have come through a paradigm IO change, right? When with GUI, and then with a graphical user interface, and then with multi-touch in the context of mobile voice later on. Similarly, I feel like AR is that next paradigm.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  Vibe coding lets users design and build their own software, upending the user-centred design paradigm that has held since 1947.

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  The new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  The faster AI progresses, the better NVIDIA does, so a shock like DeepSeek should expand its market rather than shrink it.

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  The more progress that AI makes or the higher the derivative of AI progress is, especially because NVIDIA's in the best place, the higher the derivative is, the sooner the market's going to be bigger and expanding and NVIDIA's the only one that does everything reliably right now.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  American export controls police floating-point operations while memory and interconnect matter just as much, and reasoning models make that the wrong axis to control.

  Americagovernment

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  FLOP is the vector that the government has cared about historically, but the other two vectors are arguably just as important. And especially when we come to this new paradigm, which the world is only just learning about over the last six months: reasoning.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  The memorize-fetch-apply paradigm behind LLMs can reach arbitrary skill given training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or acquire new skills on the fly.

  LLMsOpenAI

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  This "memorize, fetch, apply" paradigm can achieve arbitrary levels of skills at arbitrary tasks given appropriate training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or pick up new skills on the fly (which is to say that there is no fluid intelligence at play here.)

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  OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.

Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Every paradigm-shifting idea began as heresy, so outlandish ideas have to be kept on the table.

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  But I do also try to always remind myself that every paradigm shifting idea that humans have ever had began as heresy and lunacy. That guy was crazy up to the second. He was brilliant. And so we got to keep our minds open to the things that sound outlandish, because one of them eventually is going to lead us to the big paradigm shift.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  Retrieval-augmented generation is the most practical approach for reducing LLM hallucinations.

  LLMs

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  Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG; Lewis et al., 2020), which conditions on the LLM's generation on retrieved documents is the most practical paradigm IMO.

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