Jason Bernert
@jasonbernert.bsky.social
Software engineer working on AI products and platforms @nytimes.com. Wannabe circuit sculpture artist. Sandwich connoisseur.
I usually don't gravitate to podcasts like this, but I really enjoyed Ilya Sutskever's question 'What are we scaling?' and the discussion that follows. I'm curious if we'll see the compute race slow a bit in 2026 with a pivot to new research again. www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk...
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
www.dwarkesh.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I usually don't gravitate to podcasts like this, but I really enjoyed Ilya Sutskever's question 'What are we scaling?' and the discussion that follows. I'm curious if we'll see the compute race slow a bit in 2026 with a pivot to new research again. www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk...
A great visual essay by @samwho.dev on how LLMs work! I've been interested in caching techniques to speed up LLM calls, especially for user-facing features. You can cache whole requests, but today I learned that LLMs can also cache at the token level! ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...
Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
ngrok.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
A great visual essay by @samwho.dev on how LLMs work! I've been interested in caching techniques to speed up LLM calls, especially for user-facing features. You can cache whole requests, but today I learned that LLMs can also cache at the token level! ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...
Simon Willison wraps up the year of LLMs. Spoiler: it was dizzying. The neologism list is a fun quick read if you don't have time for the whole thing simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
simonwillison.net
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Simon Willison wraps up the year of LLMs. Spoiler: it was dizzying. The neologism list is a fun quick read if you don't have time for the whole thing simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
chatbots are becoming platforms while platforms are becoming chatbots www.theverge.com/news/847067/...
The ChatGPT app store is here
From chatbot to app platform.
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
chatbots are becoming platforms while platforms are becoming chatbots www.theverge.com/news/847067/...
Looks like I have my holiday reading list www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2026
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Looks like I have my holiday reading list www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
The concept of a GenTab in Google’s Labs Disco is a really wild example of how the future of the internet could play out. The product and features you need are built on the fly, and everyone else simply provides the data. labs.google/disco
LABS.GOOGLE
Take the web for a fresh spin
labs.google
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The concept of a GenTab in Google’s Labs Disco is a really wild example of how the future of the internet could play out. The product and features you need are built on the fly, and everyone else simply provides the data. labs.google/disco
Crazy to think some of us nervously watch an agent refactor some typescript for 20 seconds while hackers out there let agents run autonomously for 6 hours to find multiple exploits across multiple targets www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Crazy to think some of us nervously watch an agent refactor some typescript for 20 seconds while hackers out there let agents run autonomously for 6 hours to find multiple exploits across multiple targets www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Jake and Paige (@paigemoody.bsky.social) are amazing human beings and I can't wait to see what comes out of this www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hacker...
Hacks/Hackers launches new lab to empower newsrooms to build AI tools
Newsroom AI Lab participants will be guided by technical advisors Jake Kara and Paige Moody
www.hackshackers.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Jake and Paige (@paigemoody.bsky.social) are amazing human beings and I can't wait to see what comes out of this www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hacker...
This is too good!
Fun fact about PA: All the liquor stores are run by the state. That means sales are public.
@inquirer.com acquired one year of alcohol sales data from the state — 75 million rows of data.
We used it to build a guide to your neighborhood’s drinking habits.
Presenting: Pennsylvania Uncorked.
@inquirer.com acquired one year of alcohol sales data from the state — 75 million rows of data.
We used it to build a guide to your neighborhood’s drinking habits.
Presenting: Pennsylvania Uncorked.
What does your neighborhood drink? Find out with Pennsylvania Uncorked, our breakdown of the most popular wine and spirits
Analysis of a year's worth of Fine Wine and Good Spirits sales data.
www.inquirer.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is too good!
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Incredible that Grok 3 could not generate accurate references 94% of the time, and ChatGPT was wrong 134 times out of 200 queries, but I’m still seeing LinkedIn posters telling us “hallucinations are improving” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
www.cjr.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Incredible that Grok 3 could not generate accurate references 94% of the time, and ChatGPT was wrong 134 times out of 200 queries, but I’m still seeing LinkedIn posters telling us “hallucinations are improving” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
This article came out three months ago and I still think about this line almost weekly: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes" blog.google/technology/r....
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
blog.google
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This article came out three months ago and I still think about this line almost weekly: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes" blog.google/technology/r....
TIL the term "vibes coding" www.404media.co/this-game-cr...
This Game Created by AI 'Vibe Coding' Makes $50,000 a Month. Yours Probably Won’t
fly.pieter.com was initially made in just 30 minutes with AI tools and is now generating thousands of dollars a month. The future of AI-assisted game development will not be that simple.
www.404media.co
March 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
TIL the term "vibes coding" www.404media.co/this-game-cr...
Always great to see some numbers to back up assumptions on link hallucinations and how LLMs source links for RAG models
March 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Always great to see some numbers to back up assumptions on link hallucinations and how LLMs source links for RAG models
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As reported, the entire staff of 538 was laid off this morning. This is a severe blow to political data journalism, and I feel for my colleagues. Readers note: As we were instructed not to publish any new content, all planned updates to polls data and averages are canceled indefinitely. Huge loss :(
March 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As reported, the entire staff of 538 was laid off this morning. This is a severe blow to political data journalism, and I feel for my colleagues. Readers note: As we were instructed not to publish any new content, all planned updates to polls data and averages are canceled indefinitely. Huge loss :(
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We just launched tldraw computer
December 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
We just launched tldraw computer
I backed Tachyon's Particle in August thinking by the time it arrived surely I'd have a project in mind for it... Now here I am getting the board this month and I still haven't thought of what to do. Bird call audio ID? Home assistant server? J.A.R.V.I.S.?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
Tachyon: Powerful 5G single-board computer w/ AI accelerator
Embed intelligence into anything, anywhere with this Snapdragon-powered credit card-sized computer from Particle.
www.kickstarter.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I backed Tachyon's Particle in August thinking by the time it arrived surely I'd have a project in mind for it... Now here I am getting the board this month and I still haven't thought of what to do. Bird call audio ID? Home assistant server? J.A.R.V.I.S.?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
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Absolutely fabulous crew.
JOB: NYT is hiring for an early-career fellow on A.I. Initiatives! We're a small, interdisciplinary group experimenting to help reporters, facilitate newsroom processes and reimagine reader-facing experiences.
Apply by Dec. 2. DM with any questions!
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#JobSky
Apply by Dec. 2. DM with any questions!
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November 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Absolutely fabulous crew.
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October 25, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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My colleagues and I used A.I. to sift through over 400 hours of video recordings and pinpoint salient moments that helped inform this piece's reporting.
It was great to collaborate with Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Duy Nguyen, Juliana Castro Varon and Matt Ruby on this investigation.
It was great to collaborate with Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Duy Nguyen, Juliana Castro Varon and Matt Ruby on this investigation.
October 28, 2024 at 1:19 PM
My colleagues and I used A.I. to sift through over 400 hours of video recordings and pinpoint salient moments that helped inform this piece's reporting.
It was great to collaborate with Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Duy Nguyen, Juliana Castro Varon and Matt Ruby on this investigation.
It was great to collaborate with Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Duy Nguyen, Juliana Castro Varon and Matt Ruby on this investigation.