Stories by bblcla

How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a suitable photo

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

What is code? (2015)

LLMs have bad taste at where to draw abstraction boundaries

Is resumable LLM streaming hard? No, it's just annoying, but we built it anyway.

A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it

Frontier language models have become much smaller

Dario Amodei: "In 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI."

When each proud fighter brags

PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face

Why you shouldn't store large files in Git

How to write a good design doc

The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes

One Million Checkboxes Is What It Sounds Like

From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts

Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes (2021)

Jane Street is big. Like, really, really big.

Jane Street raked in $4.4B at start of 2024

Things I would tell my self from 10 years ago