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hi bluesky, i'm brendan
- i work in AI
- i am a dad, i do a lot of busy kid things
- i love traveling
- in my free time i enjoy reading, creative writing, working on projects in my community, non-profit work, listening to music and learning language
algorithm do your thing!
- i work in AI
- i am a dad, i do a lot of busy kid things
- i love traveling
- in my free time i enjoy reading, creative writing, working on projects in my community, non-profit work, listening to music and learning language
algorithm do your thing!
nick at night shows friends now
god I feel old
god I feel old
January 12, 2026 at 6:02 AM
nick at night shows friends now
god I feel old
god I feel old
2025 was a wild year… i wouldn’t want to repeat it, but at least the music was good
as always here’s my best of 2025 sampler
enjoy!
open.spotify.com/playlist/0bg...
as always here’s my best of 2025 sampler
enjoy!
open.spotify.com/playlist/0bg...
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
2025 was a wild year… i wouldn’t want to repeat it, but at least the music was good
as always here’s my best of 2025 sampler
enjoy!
open.spotify.com/playlist/0bg...
as always here’s my best of 2025 sampler
enjoy!
open.spotify.com/playlist/0bg...
What is going on over at Uber? A little AI gone wild?
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is going on over at Uber? A little AI gone wild?
ChatGPT is still somehow the best homeowner sidekick out of all the LLMs.
Had an event with my furnace tonight. Claude told me to get out of my house while ChatGPT asked relevant questions and dialed into an explanation that was considerate of the criteria and made sense.
Had an event with my furnace tonight. Claude told me to get out of my house while ChatGPT asked relevant questions and dialed into an explanation that was considerate of the criteria and made sense.
December 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
ChatGPT is still somehow the best homeowner sidekick out of all the LLMs.
Had an event with my furnace tonight. Claude told me to get out of my house while ChatGPT asked relevant questions and dialed into an explanation that was considerate of the criteria and made sense.
Had an event with my furnace tonight. Claude told me to get out of my house while ChatGPT asked relevant questions and dialed into an explanation that was considerate of the criteria and made sense.
i think this is the first time i've actually ever set and achieved a reading goal. not everything read for pleasure of course, but i'll take the win regardless and aim to do better in the new year!
December 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
i think this is the first time i've actually ever set and achieved a reading goal. not everything read for pleasure of course, but i'll take the win regardless and aim to do better in the new year!
2026: surf a door if you have to, just get out there and get it done.
December 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
2026: surf a door if you have to, just get out there and get it done.
Testing cross posting between Substack, Twitter, Farcaster and Bluesky via Wabi
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Testing cross posting between Substack, Twitter, Farcaster and Bluesky via Wabi
TIL clubhouse premium costs about $60 per year in 2026
December 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
TIL clubhouse premium costs about $60 per year in 2026
OpenAI’s o3 hits AGI-level benchmarks at $2,012 per task. The efficiency/capability trade-off is the real story for applied AI: when does breakthrough reasoning justify 1000x compute costs in production?
rb.gy/grdc79
rb.gy/grdc79
AI Update, December 27, 2024: AI News and Views From the Past Week
Artificial Intelligence - Catch up on select AI news and developments from the past week or so. Stay in the know.
rb.gy
December 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
OpenAI’s o3 hits AGI-level benchmarks at $2,012 per task. The efficiency/capability trade-off is the real story for applied AI: when does breakthrough reasoning justify 1000x compute costs in production?
rb.gy/grdc79
rb.gy/grdc79
are shopping malls back? feels like they are kind of back. maybe just because of holidays but i was surprised!
December 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
are shopping malls back? feels like they are kind of back. maybe just because of holidays but i was surprised!
raclette
duck fat poutine
mulled wine
0 degree weather
great family night in boston
duck fat poutine
mulled wine
0 degree weather
great family night in boston
December 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
raclette
duck fat poutine
mulled wine
0 degree weather
great family night in boston
duck fat poutine
mulled wine
0 degree weather
great family night in boston
got my boardy stats for the year! looking forward to more in 2026
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
got my boardy stats for the year! looking forward to more in 2026
super interesting read:
arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
LLMs may bluff due to RL incentives. this paper adds an honesty-only “confession” after answers. trained models admit errors/hallucinations, enabling better monitoring and transparency.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
LLMs may bluff due to RL incentives. this paper adds an honesty-only “confession” after answers. trained models admit errors/hallucinations, enabling better monitoring and transparency.
Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions
Large language models (LLMs) can be dishonest when reporting on their actions and beliefs -- for example, they may overstate their confidence in factual claims or cover up evidence of covert actions. ...
arxiv.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
super interesting read:
arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
LLMs may bluff due to RL incentives. this paper adds an honesty-only “confession” after answers. trained models admit errors/hallucinations, enabling better monitoring and transparency.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
LLMs may bluff due to RL incentives. this paper adds an honesty-only “confession” after answers. trained models admit errors/hallucinations, enabling better monitoring and transparency.
thinking about starting a supper club kind of thing for folks working in AI
start in the boston area and go from there
start in the boston area and go from there
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
thinking about starting a supper club kind of thing for folks working in AI
start in the boston area and go from there
start in the boston area and go from there
sent between twitter, farcaster and bluesky via wabi.ai 👋
Wabi
The first personal software platform is arriving soon.
wabi.ai
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
sent between twitter, farcaster and bluesky via wabi.ai 👋
unexpected way to close out my 2025 bingo card
December 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
unexpected way to close out my 2025 bingo card
hi bluesky, i'm brendan
- i work in AI
- i am a dad, i do a lot of busy kid things
- i love traveling
- in my free time i enjoy reading, creative writing, working on projects in my community, non-profit work, listening to music and learning language
algorithm do your thing!
- i work in AI
- i am a dad, i do a lot of busy kid things
- i love traveling
- in my free time i enjoy reading, creative writing, working on projects in my community, non-profit work, listening to music and learning language
algorithm do your thing!
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
hi bluesky, i'm brendan
- i work in AI
- i am a dad, i do a lot of busy kid things
- i love traveling
- in my free time i enjoy reading, creative writing, working on projects in my community, non-profit work, listening to music and learning language
algorithm do your thing!
- i work in AI
- i am a dad, i do a lot of busy kid things
- i love traveling
- in my free time i enjoy reading, creative writing, working on projects in my community, non-profit work, listening to music and learning language
algorithm do your thing!