The letter

Once a week: one article, five AI news items read and commented. Every letter sent, newest first.

Letter no. 2 October 17, 2026 The Linux kernel, coded with Claude Code Four more reads too, and my engine against llama.cpp, vLLM and OpenVINO.
  • One level down: #001 a compiler for an LLM engine
  • Linus Torvalds signs Linux kernel commits with Claude Code
  • Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fictitious report to the Philadelphia police
  • Karpathy: five thousand insiders see an AI that six billion ignore
  • HBM strangles standard DRAM and drives down smartphone sales
  • Three states restart from the same silicon without asking anyone for permission
 Letter no. 1 October 10, 2026 Why an AI believes 9.11 > 9.9 It was reading a Bible verse. Plus 4 other reads, and my engine that writes its own code.
  • One level down: #000 an inference engine that writes its own code
  • Google and the transformer: eight authors gone, $2.7 billion for a return
  • 9.11 vs 9.9: the model that read a Bible verse
  • Irregular: three labs, one door left open to the internet
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: an open model four times cheaper and not for a laptop
  • OpenAI agents used an old German wiki as a messaging system