Writing this post I got heavy AI assistance, starting off with my raw notes of the competition. I know it's not up to my usual quality – this was the only way I could find time to share this. Overall I consider the result not good enough, but I will keep experimenting with different kinds of AI assistance if
White House's new chip rules seem to not have huge impact right now, in the "tier 2" countries like Estonia. It is unlikely we ever would have been able to build a $1B data center anyway. But this restriction could still become significant. I don't fully understand but I assume the per-country limit
What does a well designed developer tool (programming language, library, API, CLI utility) look like -- for an LLM? The more we write code with Copilot and Cursor and chat-assistants, the more important this question is. Off the top of my head, a good tool for LLM programmers: * Chunks, abstracts and simplifies, so making most usage pretty concise -- to reduce
With LLMs now multimodal and extremely cheap, they can do much of what a human can, when limited to only the virtual. This rapid progress in the world of bits, however, is a sore reminder of how slowly things improve in the physical world. I need an AI that can: * plan meals, manage food inventory, cook, wash dishes, clean up
To prototype a mobile-optimized writing app I used LLMs as code generators. The idea isn't new but I got inspiration from reading Simon Willison's experiments creating micro-UIs. The idea is to prompt for whatever functionality you need, and ask for a single HTML file containing CSS and JS as needed. This makes copy-pasting
Whenever I write here, I do it on my laptop, almost never on the phone. I do have a Bluetooth keyboard that connects to my phone, but it's rare that I remember to bring it with me, and have a moment to take it out of the bag. Plus it's un-ergonomic. But I also almost
Watching Youtube woodworking videos is my guilty pleasure. But until now, I'd had little opportunity to make something myself: no space for a workshop in my small apartment and a busy family/work schedule haven't really allowed it. Recently on summer vacation I had an idea though: I could outsource most of the difficult parts of
This is my running ranking of the best buns in Tallinn, updated as bakeries open and close. The latest shake-up came in March 2026, when long-time leader Sumi closed its doors. 1. Pulla Bakery Location: Old Town, Voorimehe 7. Price: 3€ per bun. The front of this tiny cafe is just a few windows along a narrow but
I have a theory that the LLM frontier moves every 1.5-2 years. Let me qualify. I mean that a major leap of the whatever is the best model (currently GPT-4) happens with that interval. Incremental improvements don't count: e.g. Claude 3 Opus is claimed to be maybe slightly better than GPT-4, but it
Quiet quitting is a recent name for something I am sure has been happening for all of time. It probably has something to do with the person's life circumstances, or something about the macro environment being depressing, or whatever. But let me propose a simple economic justification. Consider the total impact of employment on a person. That includes
