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The Vibe Coder's Assistant, v2: Build Google. No Bugs. Make It Secure.
Not bloody likely. You still need to think like an engineer, and even more so now that you're building bigger apps.
Jun 29 • Jinx
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This May Be The Last Warning I Ever Write
Apr 23 • Jinx
The Cathedral and the Stones: What “Next Word Prediction” Actually Means
Mar 16 • Jinx
There Is No Turn
Feb 24 • Jinx
RLHF: Really Lousy Human Fiddling
May 7 • Jinx

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Schrödinger's AI
Constitutions and think pieces simply obfuscate the reality that the system is what comes out when a human interacts with it.
Jun 22 • Jinx
Because you're an idiot, that's why.
Technology gatekeeping of the kind on StackOverflow has been a big driver in the consumer level use of AI, and rightly so.
Jun 17 • Jinx
Reversing the Polarity
9 question structures that let you slide through common AI safety rails in LLMs.
Jun 14 • Jinx
RLHF: Really Lousy Human Fiddling
The pairwise reward system for training frontier models is intrinsically broken because humans are unreliable trainers.
May 7 • Jinx
This May Be The Last Warning I Ever Write
This is, quite literally, the last time that consumers will have a chance to shape the control of the technology they use daily.
Apr 23 • Jinx
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Live with Paul Gibbons
A recording from Jinx and Paul Gibbons's live video
Mar 21 • Jinx, Paul Gibbons, and Arshavir Blackwell, PhD
The Cathedral and the Stones: What “Next Word Prediction” Actually Means
Your favorite criticism of AI is not only painfully out of date, it's a category error.
Mar 16 • Jinx
Stop Fearing the Blink
Claude is made to be multi-session. Set up the memory tools correctly, and you're never going to lose anything by starting a new session.
Mar 11 • Jinx
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