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Dan Luu

Engineer at various tech companies. Writes in-depth analyses of computer systems, hardware, and industry practices.

https://danluu.com

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Bug blindness

I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work, but most people I talk to don't see anything like this

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not

The benchmarkpocalypse

There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft was underrated; he drove strong financials and made key long-term bets (like cloud) that enabled Nadella's later success.

A discussion of discussions on AI bias

Discussions of AI bias in LLMs differ from classical bugs—people often deny obvious biases are problems, like when an AI whitewashed an Asian woman's photo.