Digest | Jul/Aug/Sep/Oct 2025 | kipply's blog

I like Thinking Machines, but more than that, I’m grateful. For this blogpost and for being an AI lab with good energy. What good taste means for software engineering, what good system design looks like, and what great software design looks like. Anthropic finally gets a fun post-mortem. Parasitic AI is definitely real, I’m surprised by how easy it was. Blog on building a search engine from scratch with embeddings. I’ve always hated that search engines are keyword based, I need to be able to search for “good blogs” or at least, “blogs like this one”. Hudson River Trading is trying Python lazy imports, so you don’t have to! Don’t say quant finance has never done anything for you. Dwarkesh with some expectations management for ASI. Meta saying something. An update on California high speed rail. A briefing on cryonics. It’s not the incentives, its you. My libertarian mindset is really into seeing the world as a pile of incentives and I love making the incentives good. That being said, I d

I like Thinking Machines, but more than that, I’m grateful. For this blogpost and for being an AI lab with good energy. What good taste means for software engineering, what good system design looks like, and what great software design looks like. Anthropic finally gets a fun post-mortem. Parasitic AI is definitely real, I’m surprised by how easy it was. Blog on building a search engine from scratch with embeddings. I’ve always hated that search engines are keyword based, I need to be able to search for “good blogs” or at least, “blogs like this one”. Hudson River Trading is trying Python lazy