Meditation

Will AI take my job?

Foundations · Part 6

The honest, non-clickbait version: it depends less on your job title than on which parts of your day you spend on.

When AI stops answering and starts doing

Foundations · Part 5

A chatbot waits for you to ask again. An agent keeps going on its own — for better and occasionally for worse.

Talking to AI is a skill now

Foundations · Part 4

Same model, wildly different results — depending only on how you ask. Here's why, and how to ask better.

How computers learned to create

Foundations · Part 3

Not copy-paste. Not a collage of stolen pieces.

The idea that changed everything

Foundations · Part 2

One clever trick called "attention" is the real reason AI suddenly got good. Here's the whole idea, no math required.

What's actually inside ChatGPT?

Foundations · Part 1

Not a brain. Not magic.

What Kimi K3 Actually Changed

Deep Dives

Moonshot AI just shipped the biggest open-weight model anyone's ever released, and it's not just big for the sake of being big — there's real engineering under the hood.

Optimizing a Model: The Complete Guide to Distillation, Quantization, Pruning, and Beyond

Training a capable model is only half the battle. The model that comes out of pretraining or fine-tuning is almost never the model you actually want to ship.

I Built an 11,200-Example Synthetic Dataset, Fine-Tuned a Model, and Then Didn't Ship It

A post-mortem on the Dragon Commentary Studio LoRA: what the data pipeline got right, why the fine-tune still lost to the base model, and why shipping the base model was the correct engineering call.