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.
- Grok 4 and Mecha Hitler
- Lorem Gibson
- Asymmetry of verification and verifier’s law
- Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance
- Brandolini’s law: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
- Carbon chauvinism
- Outcome based pricing (via Lenny’s Bret Taylor interview)
- OpenAI’s new open weight models (gpt-oss) (via Simon Willison)
- GPT-5 Rollout Backlash
- SCAI - Seemingly Conscious AI (Mustafa Suleyman)
- Le Grand Paris Express