https://mariozechner.at/recommended-reading/ Articles and videos I recommended on socials. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056442002959450600 Mon, 18 May 2026 18:29:15 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=glpNyjjVkJ69aQlr&v=JNyuX1zoOgU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056351988569264519 Mon, 18 May 2026 12:31:33 GMT recommended viewing. love the insights on distillation and edge inference. i want that. otoh you have the host claiming "engineers are now 500-1000x more productive" 🫠 at around 16:15 he roasts the army of agents folks. it's hilarious. "we still need craft and human taste. why haven't we seen a kid make a hit game? we aren't there yet." this coming from someone who deeply knows the entire stack down to the machine level should give you pause. i love him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=cFUVMS-1KhaP5bl9&v=ngBraLDqzdI&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056323856797737473 Mon, 18 May 2026 10:39:46 GMT recommended viewing. it's a really good interview with @ylecun. feeling a lot of good european energy wrt open systems, societal chances and risks, etc. :) https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056118943924793379 Sun, 17 May 2026 21:05:31 GMT recommended reading. also read part II. also read naur's original article. > As the paper puts it: when AI is “right,” people become less skilled. When AI is “wrong,” you need skilled people to catch and fix the errors. Either way, the institution suffers. https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.pdf https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056117351532143048 Sun, 17 May 2026 20:59:12 GMT recommended reading. still relevant. https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2055737604234973205 Sat, 16 May 2026 19:50:13 GMT recommended reading. this is our field's version of "i hoped AI would be able to do my laundry, but instead it does my art" https://antirez.com/news/165 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2055191040940818569 Fri, 15 May 2026 07:38:22 GMT recommended reading by @antirez > I worked 14 hours per day on average. My normal average is 4/6 since early Redis times, but the first few months of Redis were like that. this isnhow i work too, intense bursts followed by a healthier phase. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2054649817129730048/vid/avc1/1920x1080/Z107p6tyGnhjuR_L.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2055007477322612947 Thu, 14 May 2026 19:28:57 GMT recommended viewing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=mU_fOQYf0st0e7mS&v=1xxa5fxJkZo&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2054599103997264158 Wed, 13 May 2026 16:26:13 GMT recommended viewing. terrence tao on education + AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=mwiYvE800kPC0q8c&v=Rtkac4WHC1o&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2054523650515091744 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:26:24 GMT recommended viewing. great points on LLMs and education. we don't need to solve content, we need to solve the motivation problem. his out there proposal is a bit ... uhm yeah. https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053945758546526368 Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:03 GMT recommended reading. strongly recommended reading. i really like the pain avoidance angle. slots into my "paon/friction is when you learn" angle. when combined > cognitive debt. allowing to toot my own horn a little. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2053825939088257024/vid/avc1/1920x1080/fPS14e02b0SYUT6o.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053874779824763196 Mon, 11 May 2026 16:28:01 GMT recommended viewing. best pod in the space. someone acquire them for 1b. https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053747834696995181 Mon, 11 May 2026 08:03:35 GMT recommended reading. don't get confused by the title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=HCZ2pawMGxOTifWl&v=CPrePbvbbic&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053401384553226587 Sun, 10 May 2026 09:06:55 GMT recommended viewing. in anders we trust. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/8/local-models/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2052691176373805534 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:04:48 GMT recommended reading by our junion developer @mitsuhiko my name is pidalf, and i support this message. would love to have some spare cycles to join @antirez effort and use some of my GPU knowledge. alas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=KE6-ZuIBQpYCIxfU&v=sZzc6tAtTrM&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051808420785774821 Tue, 05 May 2026 23:37:02 GMT recommended viewing on NN pruning. forever thankful MIT is putting these lectures out on the web for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=9ZVKp9s0AhwzzPLq&v=96jN2OCOfLs&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051572307445842415 Tue, 05 May 2026 07:58:49 GMT recommended viewing because @karpathy listen to be people who say "i don't know, but i'm excited to find out". seek them out. ignore the rest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMY https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051052748016140776 Sun, 03 May 2026 21:34:16 GMT recommended viewing. it is a very, very good talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=hV2ANEl-wPh1MSU1&v=kYkIdXwW2AE&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2050685104335274090 Sat, 02 May 2026 21:13:23 GMT recommended viewing. kind of tired of transformers tbh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=r9m2YdR7ItrA9hnC&v=xmkSf5IS-zw&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049649797250809861 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:39:26 GMT recommended viewing. strongly so. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2049501092946354177/vid/avc1/1920x1080/sbL3L0kVtUQjuC9h.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049530431737860437 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:08 GMT recommended viewing because clankolas looks cute in his suit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=VOQvAvUKZA589rR6&v=VTQR9n3aqNU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049418651942432782 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:20:57 GMT recommended viewing. haven't read the paper yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=qGGjzrVU4BdxvCJa&v=mVH7OPx4QZU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049188047284015546 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:04:37 GMT recommended viewing. the kids are alright. this kid is awesome let's throw money at the kid, so he can build more awesome stuff. that comma is very confusing to my european brain ... https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048571595153666061 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:15:03 GMT recommended reading https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048333814577951018 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:30:12 GMT recommended reading. > The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUvGOuotE&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048148015920079350 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:11:54 GMT recommended viewing by the forking company CTO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4F1gFy-hqg https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2047689973357269321 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:51:48 GMT recommended viewing