Hi, I’m Bhuvan.This is my commonplace book.

Neuroscience is in trouble

Damn

AGI for dummies is here

AGI for normies is already here. I completely agree with Derek Thompson on this—in fact, I’d go so far as to say that even back with Sonnet 3.5, it had already arrived for the rest of us. The first time I heard a similar take was from Tyler Cowen, who pointed out that AGI, for most normal people, is already in our…

The Chinese LLMs are good!

I’m addicted to vibe-coding, and the reason is simple: thanks to coding tools like Codex, Claude Code, and others, I sincerely think that I can build the next Amazon, Google, or Notion from my bedroom—and also sometimes from when I'm sitting on the potty, because I can still send remote commands from my phone. Coding…

What's comes after transformers?

A nice overview of companies that are trying to figure out what comes next after the transformer architecture, which has led to the current AI race

Keep yawping

Yawp is a simple voice-typing tool I vibe-coded for my own workflow. Over the last few months, I’ve found myself leaning heavily into voice input—to the point where typing on a traditional keyboard is starting to feel completely anachronistic. I’ve been dogfooding it constantly, and unlike most weekend side projects…

I got some links for you

So yeah, had we gotten hit with Dean, Ghemawat, Vinyals, and Le – followed by Hassabis (even yes, with him technically staying, but in a new, less day-to-day role), it would have actually seemed even more catastrophic. Like Google couldn't stop the bleeding. Better to rip the band-aid off, perhaps? Regardless, it's still an optics nightmare. I mean, these people were just on stage together a couple months ago talking about…

Treat your reading list like a river

There's definitely a role for such techniques; but in the end, the only way to deal with a too-many-needles problem is to confront the fact that it's insoluble – that you definitely won't be fitting everything in. (Of course some such problems, where just scraping a living feels impossible, demand political solutions too – a topic for another time.) It's not a question of rearranging your to-do list so as to make space for…