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You can learn a lot by building a command-line AI agent (Part 1: The Router)
Building "Shade": Lessons from creating a custom AI tool that uses local LLMs
Sep 23 • 
Jeff Nunn

August 2025

Input > Output
In 2023, Andrej Karpathy tweeted that "The hottest new programming language is English", referring to how we’re able to prompt AI to generate code…
Aug 12 • 
Jeff Nunn
We're not vibe coding enough
Despite some naysaying, there are real benefits to vibe coding more.
Aug 4 • 
Jeff Nunn
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July 2025

Persuasion machines
How conversational AI can be weaponized to persuade and manipulate
Jul 30 • 
Jeff Nunn
Why is the International Math Olympiad showing up in my feed?
For the first time ever, LLMs hit the gold standard at math's most prestigious competition
Jul 23 • 
Jeff Nunn
Consumer robotics have stagnated
Despite a few glimmers of hope, consumer robotics has changed little over the past 5 years
Jul 21 • 
Jeff Nunn
On context rot and context engineering
Researchers prove model performance degrades with long inputs, but we're still not sure why.
Jul 17 • 
Jeff Nunn
Tracking how often I use AI in my writing
In my post “In the know”, I talked about how I want to be transparent in my use of large language models (LLMs) in my writing:
Jul 15 • 
Jeff Nunn
In the know
For the past 3 and a half years, I’ve co-authored a weekly newsletter for my team in my role as a technical advisor at Amazon.
Jul 13 • 
Jeff Nunn
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