Dan Luu

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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work #Productivity #Work #Focus
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Sep 18, 2026
How well do agents use test/verification techniques? #AI #Testing #SoftwareEngineering
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Sep 7, 2026
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? #AI #Tech #Analysis
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Sep 1, 2026
Bug blindness #SoftwareEngineering #Bug #Development
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Aug 30, 2026
There's no reason for software to be slow anymore #Performance #Software #Optimization
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Aug 21, 2026
The benchmarkpocalypse #Tech #Performance #Benchmarking
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Aug 17, 2026
What's the best programming language for coding agents? #Programming #AI #Software
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Aug 9, 2026
Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires #Benchmarking #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Jul 23, 2026
Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island #AI #Coding #LLM
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Jul 3, 2026
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
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Oct 28, 2024
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
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Aug 11, 2024
A discussion of discussions on AI bias
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Jun 16, 2024
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
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May 26, 2024
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
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Mar 16, 2024
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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Feb 18, 2024
Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
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Feb 7, 2024
Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident
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Jan 29, 2024
Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
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Jan 25, 2024
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
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Dec 30, 2023
Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle
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Dec 11, 2022
Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
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Oct 1, 2022
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
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Sep 12, 2022
In defense of simple architectures
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Apr 6, 2022
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
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Mar 14, 2022
Misidentifying talent
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Feb 21, 2022
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
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Feb 2, 2022
Cocktail party ideas
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Feb 2, 2022
The container throttling problem
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Dec 18, 2021
Some thoughts on writing
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Dec 13, 2021
Some latency measurement pitfalls
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Dec 6, 2021
Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
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Nov 22, 2021
Individuals matter
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Nov 15, 2021
Culture matters
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Nov 8, 2021
Willingness to look stupid
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Oct 21, 2021
What to learn
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Oct 18, 2021
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
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Oct 15, 2021
The value of in-house expertise
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Sep 29, 2021
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
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Aug 27, 2021
Against essential and accidental complexity
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Dec 29, 2020
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
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Jun 30, 2020