📝 New blog post: You Have to Earn Your Calculator

On the temptation of LLMs, and why sometimes you still need to do the work by hand.

https://matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/earn-your-calculator

An absolutely terrifying long read on the extractive gig economy for knowledge work that AI training data demand has created.

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/877388/white-collar-workers-training-ai-mercor/

📝 New blog post: Deepfakes for Code and the Asymmetric Internet

AI hasn't just given us a new kind of spam—it has broken the economics of noise. The filter exists, but only if you can afford it.

https://matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/deepfakes-for-code

📝 New blog post: Let's Talk About the Humanoid Robot in the Room

General purpose humanoid robots are like self-driving, but actually much harder.

https://matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/humanoid-robot-in-the-room