Thinking out loud as things happen — short notes and link posts from Pixel Bytes.https://pixelbytes.net/en-ushttps://pixelbytes.net/blog/c-mo-me-llamo/https://pixelbytes.net/blog/c-mo-me-llamo/I was listening to Dario Amodei on the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast (from back in Feb 2026) talking about training models to be highly generalizable and it reminded me that early LLMs were able to figure out new languages that weren't in it's training corpus. So I decided to talk to…Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pixelbytes.net/blog/the-straw-man-of-cognitive-mercantilism/https://pixelbytes.net/blog/the-straw-man-of-cognitive-mercantilism/I was reading Ben Thompson's "The End of the Internet" and he referenced off to Venkatesh Rao's "Cognitive Mercantilism" I think the overall optimism of the essay is warranted, but I think it’s framed against a straw man that doesn’t exist. Maybe I'm being overly semantic, but using "mercantilism" implied…Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pixelbytes.net/blog/the-frontier-is-expensive/https://pixelbytes.net/blog/the-frontier-is-expensive/Yesterday Apollo released a chart "Circularity in AI shows up in token spending too" which I learned about from these these two tweets <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" <p lang="en" dir="ltr" I see this chart a bit differently: - New companies are able to design their org/GTM from zero, and are adopting AI…Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pixelbytes.net/blog/the-overnight-shift/https://pixelbytes.net/blog/the-overnight-shift/I am having a hard time coming up with well defined tasks for my agents to work on overnight while I'm sleeping. There are two big challenges: A lot of what I'm working on significantly benefits from me reviewing material before moving on to the next step. This is either…Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pixelbytes.net/blog/nielsen-the-gauge/https://pixelbytes.net/blog/nielsen-the-gauge/They've been producing a report called "The Gauge" for a while and this chart has always bugged me: You've got this mix of distribution and channel that doesn't give you an accurate picture of either. Back in February of 2023 they changed the methodology to put vMVPD viewership (YouTubeTV, Hulu…Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pixelbytes.net/blog/space-chips/https://pixelbytes.net/blog/space-chips/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/technology/google-suncatcher-ai-data-center-space.html Google is launching an AI "data center" into orbit tomorrow! I use quotes because what they describe in the article is effectively one server. But it's still really cool! Not too long ago Elon Musk caught a lot of flack for talking about the idea of AI data centers…Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT