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5.8M views
Excited to release new repo: nanochat!
(it's among the most unhinged I've written).
Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,
5.3M views
🔥 New (1h56m) video lecture: "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out."
https://t.co/2pKsvgi3dE
We build and train a Transformer following the "Attention Is All You Need" paper in the language modeling setting and end up with the core of nanoGPT.
4M views
I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene".
Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link in the reply, but copy pasting below
2.5M views
⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:
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We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case
📊 Post performance
4M
Avg views / post
1.1×
Reach vs followers
Apr 2009
On X since
🔥 Top post: I took delivery of a beautiful new shiny HW4 Tesla Model X today · 17.9M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.09 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 5 image · 13 text.
Follower / following
3.3K×
Follows 1.1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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TV in the 90s: you turn it on, you watch.
TV 2025:
- turn on, wait for it to load
- popup: TV wants to update, 1.5GB. No.
- scroll sideways, find prime video app or etc
- popup: now app wants to update, 500MB. No!!
- App launching... App …
Excited to release new repo: nanochat!
(it's among the most unhinged I've written).
Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a si…
The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:
- frontend / backend (…
I just vibe coded a whole iOS app in Swift (without having programmed in Swift before, though I learned some in the process) and now ~1 hour later it's actually running on my physical phone. It was so ez... I had my hand held through the e…
I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene".
Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link…
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly…
New 3h31m video on YouTube:
"Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT"
This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how th…
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also …
DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).
For reference, this level of capability is supposed to require clusters o…
⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:
---
We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
How can we approach an ideal experience for learning…
Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all nothing "happened" and it’s not a result of any particular event, issue or drama (but please keep the conspiracy theories coming as they are highly entertaining :)). Actually, being at…
Excited to release new repo: nanochat!
(it's among the most unhinged I've written).
Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a si…
The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:
- frontend / backend (…
I just vibe coded a whole iOS app in Swift (without having programmed in Swift before, though I learned some in the process) and now ~1 hour later it's actually running on my physical phone. It was so ez... I had my hand held through the e…
I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene".
Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link…
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly…
New 3h31m video on YouTube:
"Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT"
This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how th…
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also …
DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).
For reference, this level of capability is supposed to require clusters o…
⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:
---
We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
How can we approach an ideal experience for learning…
Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all nothing "happened" and it’s not a result of any particular event, issue or drama (but please keep the conspiracy theories coming as they are highly entertaining :)). Actually, being at…
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🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 4M views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬0.88% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 1M Followers for passing 1M followers.
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Estimated69/100
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Credibility score
85%
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Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 0.88% engagement — below the ~10.8% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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