Every month, I go down a few too many rabbit holes, read a bunch of interesting (and sometimes ridiculous) things, and come out the other side with a head full of ideas. Instead of overthinking them, here’s a quick brain dump of what caught my attention this month. No deep dives, just a list of things I found worth noting.
- When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
- Chain of Draft (CoD) (via Alex Velinov)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) (via Tim Kellogg and Sean Goedecke)
- Perlin Noise and Procedural Generation Algorithms
- EBITDA
- The New York steam system
- Vibe Coding
- Rubber duck debugging
- The Hawthorne effect
- Semantic Diffusion (via Simon Willison)
- Few-Shot Prompting
- LLM-as-a-judge
- Amara’s Law (“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”)
- Amazon Bedrock Guardrail
- Weisbord’s 6 Box Model
- The Jagged Frontier (of generative AI)