Allen HutchisonReading List 6
This week’s reading list is a mix of high-level theory and low-level pragmatism. I found myself bouncing between the philosophical implications of how we build AI and the immediate satisfaction of writing a good Go component.
[article] The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics. The author argues that physics has stagnated by swapping “ontology-first” theory for mathematical models that merely fit data. This debate perfectly mirrors current machine learning disputes about whether LLMs build internal world models or just pattern-match at scale, which is the open empirical front currently being adjudicated in mechanistic interpretability.
[release] Onyx Has Released a New Remote Page Turner Called Tappy. I wish Amazon would support page turners for their Kindle line. It would be great if they supported a device as delightful as this one.
[blog] The agent principal-agent problem. This is a great look at one of the biggest problems with agentic development: code review. In my open source work, I now use a pattern where I work with an agent to make a change, test it locally, and create a pull request before having another agent review the code. This back-and-forth works well and keeps a good balance of mental state for the codebase and efficiency.
[article] ReMarkable Paper Pure wants to be the only notebook you’ll ever need. I have always liked the reMarkable tablets, but every time I try one I miss having my Kindle library alongside it. Reading and writing are deeply linked for me, which is why I recently got a Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and found it really hits the mark for what I want.
[blog] Just Fucking Use Go. I have been working on a project that has a Go component to it recently. This is the first time I have really started to look at the language, and it inspires me to spend more time with it.
I built my 7MB Full AI Terminal in Rust & Tauri. This is a neat open source AI terminal. It feels similar to Warp but is a lot smaller.
[article] Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs. I am not surprised at all by these findings. I think computer use will remain a last resort, and a lot of apps will expose some kind of API for an agent to use instead. My guess is that this eventually becomes the way we automate unmaintained applications that need to fit into an agentic workflow.
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Inautilo
Tao of Mac
sayzard
woosting
Benjamin Han