This is a raw stream of working notes. Some may be wrong, and mostly these will have little context, but I believe sharing raw thoughts is valuable in a way that polished blog posts are not.
In Would You Rather Have Married Young?, Lillian Fishman writes about the "fundamental ethos that had long governed the young secular woman" in the last 50 years: Experience, we hoped, would broaden us. The new object seems to be the inverse: the contraction and refinement of the self, within and against the overwhelming flood of external information with
I rarely look at the search analytics for my blog, but today I did. I am really amused by the most common search queries that bring people to this website, which definitely show the variety of content I post here. Here are the top ones in the past month, with similar ones grouped: 1. are LLMs deterministic (Are LLMs deterministic?
Vibe-coding produces close-to-unmaintainable code right now. But it is an acceptable trade-off in places where it produces decent results and maintainability matters less -- for example making simple UIs. So maybe a good approach is to vibe-code with stable infrastructure. This riffs off of Facebook's engineering principle "move fast with stable infrastructure"
White House's new chip rules seem to not have huge impact right now, in the "tier 2" countries like Estonia. It is unlikely we ever would have been able to build a $1B data center anyway. But this restriction could still become significant. I don't fully understand but I assume the per-country limit
What does a well designed developer tool (programming language, library, API, CLI utility) look like -- for an LLM? The more we write code with Copilot and Cursor and chat-assistants, the more important this question is. Off the top of my head, a good tool for LLM programmers: * Chunks, abstracts and simplifies, so making most usage pretty concise -- to reduce
With LLMs now multimodal and extremely cheap, they can do much of what a human can, when limited to only the virtual. This rapid progress in the world of bits, however, is a sore reminder of how slowly things improve in the physical world. I need an AI that can: * plan meals, manage food inventory, cook, wash dishes, clean up
To prototype a mobile-optimized writing app I used LLMs as code generators. The idea isn't new but I got inspiration from reading Simon Willison's experiments creating micro-UIs. The idea is to prompt for whatever functionality you need, and ask for a single HTML file containing CSS and JS as needed. This makes copy-pasting
Whenever I write here, I do it on my laptop, almost never on the phone. I do have a Bluetooth keyboard that connects to my phone, but it's rare that I remember to bring it with me, and have a moment to take it out of the bag. Plus it's un-ergonomic. But I also almost
This is my running ranking of the best buns in Tallinn, updated as bakeries open and close. The latest shake-up came in March 2026, when long-time leader Sumi closed its doors. 1. Pulla Bakery Location: Old Town, Voorimehe 7. Price: 3€ per bun. The front of this tiny cafe is just a few windows along a narrow but
I have a theory that the LLM frontier moves every 1.5-2 years. Let me qualify. I mean that a major leap of the whatever is the best model (currently GPT-4) happens with that interval. Incremental improvements don't count: e.g. Claude 3 Opus is claimed to be maybe slightly better than GPT-4, but it
