Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

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I have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents,...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Ask your LLM for receipts: What I learned teaching Claude C++ crash triage

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I recently embarked on a small toy project/experiment: How well can I equip Claude Code to automatically analyze and triage crashes in a C++...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Understand Neural Nets better, post 5 of N -- Code Assistant shootout

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In a series of previous blogposts [ 1 , 2 ,  3 , 4 ] I ran some experiments drawing the boundaries of the polytopes generated by a fully-con...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

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In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 4 of N

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After the previous blog posts here , here , and here , a friend of mine pointed me to some literature to read, and I will do so now :-). The...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 3 of N

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What is this? After my first post on the topic, 9 months elapsed before I posted again, and now I am posting within days of the last post? A...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 2 of N

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In this post, I will explain my current thinking about neural networks. In a previous post I explained the intuition behind my "origam...