28 February 2026

31 links · Saturday

I Built an AI to Play Tempest… It Beat Me.

I spent a year building an AI to master the hardest version of Tempest ever made… and yesterday it beat my official world record. What started as a stubborn engineering experiment turned into a full-blown machine learning breakthrough, complete with 15 million…

That's it, I'm cancelling my ChatGPT

OpenAI has decided to join the Department of war to enable mass surveillance and weapons deployment in war. We are all cancelling our OpenAI subscriptions.

We really do need to get money moving differently. – Wilsons Blog

A simple model of how the economy works is it’s some kind of rewards system. You do something good that other people will pay you for and you are then rewarded with money. You are a smart engineer and your boss gives you a raise, you’re a smart entrepreneur an…

LLMs Out of Context

Context engineering, context rot, and how LLMs navigate content far exceeding their context window.

We Will Not Be Divided

Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Hello burnout my old friend... - Trisha Gee

I am struggling. There. I said it. Yes, I'm middle-aged. Yes, I have kids. Yes, I have an aging parent who has health issues. Yes, I'm building a house. (shhhhhh: yes I'm perimenopausal). But it's not just that (just! Ha!). I want to help people. I LIKE helpin…

LLMs don't suffer · honnibal.dev

The "LLM welfare" question provokes a lot of uncertainty in people, but it really shouldn't. The analogy between LLM computations and what we view as morally relevant experiences is very loose.