linking

Notes on Roger Penrose – Why Intelligence Is Not a Computational

consciousness

Roger Penrose thinks that intelligence is not the result of computation.

Andrej Karpathy — Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

LLM

This three and a half hour video by Andrej Karpathy is a wonderful overview of how LLMs work and the current status. It took me a couple of days to watch and study it in depth.

Investigating Claude’s system prompt (May 2025)

LLM

Claude’s system prompt is huge! It contains a lot of interesting stuff. I read it and made notes.

Model Context Protocol documentation

LLM

MCP

MCPs are fairly simple, providing a bridge between the chat client and other applications. I’m not sure what my own use case would be for them as my use cases don’t actually involve the chat client.

Simon Willison: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)

LLM

coding

vibe coding

Willison reminds us not to confuse vibe coding with professional software development.

How Andrej Karpathy uses LLMs

LLM

coding

tips

A great overview of ways to use AI, although I knew most of it already. It gave me some ideas.

How Simon Willison uses LLMs to help him code

LLM

coding

tips

A great article filled with Simon’s deep experience in coding with LLMs.

How Ali Abdaal uses AI to save time

LLM

productivity

A few tips from Ali Abdaal, including the idea of having a writing project which makes information about you, articles you’ve written before, and preferences, available to the LLM so it can write specifically for you.