Combinator table - updated to include TinyAPL and missing 2-trains combinatorylogic.com/graphic.html

In less than 24 months there will be a clip of a high profile CRO explaining this reality to a (much smaller) room of sales reps.

📢 ADSP Episode 305 is out! 📢 In this week's short episode, @code_report recommends a few podcasts while he takes a week off for paternity leave! 👶 adspthepodcast.com/2026/09/25/Epi…

📢 ADSP Episode 304 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report finish their conversation with @marksaroufim about the agentic era, autoresearch, @GPU_MODE, Mark's favorite books and more! adspthepodcast.com/2026/09/18/Epi…

📢 ADSP Episode 303 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report continue their chat with @marksaroufim about open vs closed models, AI-generated GPU kernels, autoresearch and more! adspthepodcast.com/2026/09/11/Epi…

📢 ADSP Episode 302 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report chat with @marksaroufim, co-founder of @coreauto and @GPU_MODE. We chat with him about his career, @PyTorch, @Microsoft, @Meta and more! adspthepodcast.com/2026/09/04/Epi…

“I'm in the state of delirium. That's what the state I'm in because I have been working with computers for 40 years. And I've never seen the things that I've seen in just the last two months." - @dhh on @lexfridman

“If you've looked at behind the scenes of many great companies and what their code bases look like, after there's been 3,000 humans through them, they're awful! Absolutely awful!” - @dhh on @lexfridman / this episode is 💯 worth a listen

📢 ADSP Episode 301 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report chat about Conor's existential crisis, AI fluency, technical communities, auto autoresearch and more! adspthepodcast.com/2026/08/28/Epi…

📢 ADSP Episode 300 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report celebrate the 300th episode with Sean Parent! They chat about AI, how it's changed Sean's work flow and much, much more! 🥳 adspthepodcast.com/2026/08/21/Epi…

Me explaining AI to friends

"You can park the stochastic-ness of the program and then get deterministic behavior." - @ahejlsberg on @ryanlpeterman

📢 ADSP Episode 299 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report chat about code review in the age of AI, whether humans are still needed in the loop and more! adspthepodcast.com/2026/08/14/Epi…

📢 ADSP Episode 298 is out! 📢 In this episode, @ben_deane and @code_report chat about the design of APIs, UIs, algorithms and more! 🥳 adspthepodcast.com/2026/08/07/Epi…

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's kind of janky but fun. But it's a bit mindboggling that the LLM has to place and orchestrate various polygon assets in (x,y,z) coordinates and write code that animates it all, and that it even does anything at all.

I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". There might be a lot more. But I'm excited about creating hyper custom worlds that you can imagine dropping players into, e.g. here to participate in the LoTR story as a spectator NPC, or one of the characters, or etc. Something like an ephemeral GTA of X on demand.

Last thought is that the domain of worlds/games exposes a weakness in LLMs: they can't easily audit their work because they aren't able to efficiently and natively perceive videos or play games within them. Here, Opus 5 had to very slowly and painstakingly take screenshots at different points, and it messed up a few times and created a bunch of jank. An example of raw capability (multimodal, gameplay) that I think is still quite lacking.

📢 ADSP Episode 297 is out! 📢 In this episode, @ben_deane and @code_report chat about networking in games, FPS vs RTS, the state of the game industry, the Return of Obra Dinn and more!

📢 ADSP Episode 296 is out! 📢 In this episode, @ben_deane and @code_report chat about video games, the video game industry and more! 🎮 adspthepodcast.com/2026/07/24/Epi…

My @NDC_Conferences Toronto talk "Algorithms and Combinators" is online now! I talk about the different families and flavors of algorithms and how different combinators can be used with them and to implement them 🥳 youtube.com/watch?v=preMtk…

📢 ADSP Episode 295 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report chat about CityStrides.com, graph algorithms, GPT 5.6 Sol and more! 🥳 adspthepodcast.com/2026/07/17/Epi…

📢 ADSP Episode 294 is out! 📢 In this episode, @blelbach and @code_report chat about the histogram algorithm, histocache and more! adspthepodcast.com/2026/07/10/Epi…

AI makes everything possible.