Articles by swyx
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LLM Year in Review (karpathy.bearblog.dev)

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If you hate networking, you're probably bad at it (adelwu.substack.com)

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Agent Labs: Welcome to GPT Wrapper Summer (latent.space)

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Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor (2023) (latent.space)

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Windsurf Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It (cognition.ai)

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You Can't Opt Out of Sam Altman's Erotica (thedispatch.com)

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The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent (swyx.io)

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Make Videos Devs Love (dx.tips)

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DevRel Is -Unbelievably- Back (dx.tips)

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Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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My infant year as an AI researcher – Moving from physics to AI (alfredyao.github.io)

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Everything Is Model[S] (morphllm.com)

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Promptfoo Raises $18.4M Series A to Build the Definitive AI Security Stack (promptfoo.dev)

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A World Without Plugins (swyx.io)

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Cognition: The Devin Is in the Details (swyx.io)

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Funding, growth, and the next frontier of AI coding agents (cognition.ai)

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Marco – All your emails, one place (marcoapp.io)

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Stop Hosting Boring Tech Events (dx.tips)

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GPT-Realtime in the API [video] (youtube.com)

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The Making of Gemini Plays Pokémon (jcz.dev)

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Plus, Minus: A Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Orthogonal (gregegan.net)

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Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI [video] (youtube.com)

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8090 Code Challenge (8090.ai)

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Cursor's Problem (docs.google.com)

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Show HN: ChromeTabOverflow: manage your Chrome tab overload with markdown and ai (github.com/swyxio)

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Consent – The Developer-First Cookie Banner (github.com/c15t)

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Does AI Boost Developer Productivity? – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford [video] (youtube.com)

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Tell HN: I created an Agent Reliability miniconference because of HN

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Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (theverge.com)

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Kimi-K2 Tech Report [pdf] (github.com/moonshotai)

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Coldplay Canoodlers – Vibecoded Find the Cheater Game (coldplay-canoodle-git-main-jonathan-man...

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Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars with ChatGPT Agent (every.to/vibe-check)

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AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic (youtube.com)

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The Case for More Ambition (jxmo.io)

1

Ctfoigt (boz.com)

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Voxtral (simonwillison.net)

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The Tiny Teams Playbook (latent.space)

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The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations (marginalrevolution.com)

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What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like? (wired.com)

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The Only Important Technology Is the Internet (kevinlu.ai)

1

The Hyperstitions of Moloch – Latent.Space (latent.space)

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2025 in LLMs so far, illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles – Simon Willison [video] (youtube.com)

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Gemini Nano in Chrome 138: Notes for AI Engineers (github.com/swyxio)

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AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress tests (fortune.com)

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12-Factor Agents: Patterns of Reliable LLM Applications – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer [video] (youtube.com)

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PR Arena – AI Coding Agent Leaderboard (prarena.ai)

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Meta says it's winning the talent war with OpenAI (theverge.com)

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AI chatbots for any website with RAG search, streaming responses, endpoints (github.com/mendableai)

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Microsoft's Complicated Relationship with OpenAI (theverge.com)

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How to implement Stripe without going mad (github.com/t3dotgg)

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Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems (eugeneyan.com)

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Model Context Protocol: Origins and Requests for Startups – Theodora Chu, MCP PM [video] (youtube.com)

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Andrej Karpathy on Software 3.0: Software in the Age of AI (latent.space)

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AI Engineering Goes Mainstream (latent.space)

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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)

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Twitter Header: Part 1 (fa0311.github.io)

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SWE Agents Too Cheap to Meter (latent.space)

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Claude Code: Anthropic's Agent in Your Terminal (latent.space)

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OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (bloomberg.com)

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An LLM‑as‑Judge Won't Save the Product–Fixing Your Process Will (eugeneyan.com)

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Vibe Coding Like a Pro (huijinghuang.com)

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MenuGen – AI Menu Image Generator by Karpathy (menugen.app)

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Please stop forcing Clippy on those who want Anton (latent.space)

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Tiny Teams: $6M ARR, 5M users with 4 employees [video] (youtube.com)

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In the Matter of OpenAI vs. LangGraph (latent.space)

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The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration (hils.substack.com)

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AI Engineer Conference Call for Speakers and Official MCP (latent.space)

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Figma confidentially files for US IPO after $20B Adobe deal collapse (marketscreener.com)

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OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1 (theverge.com)

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Anthropic: Circuit Tracing and on the Biology of a Large Language Model [video] (youtube.com)

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Rethinking Reflection in Pre-Training (arxiv.org)

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Paradigm Shifts (joincolossus.com)

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Devin 2.0: Cognition slashes price of AI software engineer to $20 per month (venturebeat.com)

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The Creators of Model Context Protocol (latent.space)

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Agents at Bloomberg [video] (youtube.com)

2

Amazon Nova Act (amazon.com)

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AI Engineering at Jane Street [video] (youtube.com)

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Agent Engineering (latent.space)

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How to use Google's Deep Research, an AI researching tool (blog.google)

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Podcasting 2.0 – Making podcasts better for everyone (podcasting2.org)

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Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning (latent.space)

4

Why MCP Won (latent.space)

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Databricks to invest $1B in San Francisco (sfchronicle.com)

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AI Dev Tools at Jane Street (youtube.com)

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AI Engineer Summit 2025 – AI Leadership (Day 1) (youtube.com)

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AI Engineer Summit Online Schedule (latent.space)

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Decoding the Decoder LLM without de code [video] (youtube.com)

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The DevTools Ceiling: Great as Open Source, and a Terrible Business (dx.tips)

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The AI Architect – Bret Taylor (latent.space)

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Gartner's Grift Is About to Unravel (dx.tips)

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Cursor for ArXiv Papers (twitter.com/askalphaxiv)

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Please for the love of all that is holy: Stop writing long boring Titles (dx.tips)

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Constitutional Classifiers (claude.ai)

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Effective AI code suggestions: less is more (qodo.ai)

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Capital Cycles and AI (fabricatedknowledge.com)

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Why o3-mini *had* to be free (latent.space)

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Bespoke-Stratos and Sky-T1: The Vicuna+Alpaca Moment for Reasoning (buttondown.com/ainews)

2

Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess (swyx.io)

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Everything you need to run Mission Critical Inference (with DeepSeek v3, SGLang) (latent.space)

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Thoughts on a month with Devin (answer.ai)