Jason Bernert

3D printing custom G-code

It was such a joy to work on this with Steven and friends — and a reminder of how delightful technology can be when it's physically manifested in an artful, thoughtful way.

my latest build is a desktop arcade machine that actually works and plays more than 20 custom 8-bit games made this week by @nytimes.com folks as part of maker week.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Excited to see what comes out of this! www.gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu

It's been exactly a year since @columjournreview.bsky.social published this great analysis on how AI search engines are bad at citing the news. Anyone know of related research on whether things have gotten better? www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

NEW: We analyzed the images Grok created at the beginning of the year and found that a significant portion of the millions of rendered images were sexualizing people without their consent. — With @kateconger.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social

Fascinated by this idea from @thebenedictevans.bsky.social of not needed a lot of data to create a specialized recommendation engine when large LLMs are already trained on the worlds data. "You can rent the cold start." www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

I usually don't gravitate to podcasts like this, but I really enjoyed Ilya Sutskever's question 'What are we scaling?' and the discussion that follows. I'm curious if we'll see the compute race slow a bit in 2026 with a pivot to new research again. www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk...

A great visual essay by @samwho.dev on how LLMs work! I've been interested in caching techniques to speed up LLM calls, especially for user-facing features. You can cache whole requests, but today I learned that LLMs can also cache at the token level! ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...

Simon Willison wraps up the year of LLMs. Spoiler: it was dizzying. The neologism list is a fun quick read if you don't have time for the whole thing simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...

chatbots are becoming platforms while platforms are becoming chatbots www.theverge.com/news/847067/...

Looks like I have my holiday reading list www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...

The concept of a GenTab in Google’s Labs Disco is a really wild example of how the future of the internet could play out. The product and features you need are built on the fly, and everyone else simply provides the data. labs.google/disco

Crazy to think some of us nervously watch an agent refactor some typescript for 20 seconds while hackers out there let agents run autonomously for 6 hours to find multiple exploits across multiple targets www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

Jake and Paige (@paigemoody.bsky.social) are amazing human beings and I can't wait to see what comes out of this www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hacker...

This is too good!

Incredible that Grok 3 could not generate accurate references 94% of the time, and ChatGPT was wrong 134 times out of 200 queries, but I’m still seeing LinkedIn posters telling us “hallucinations are improving” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

This article came out three months ago and I still think about this line almost weekly: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes" blog.google/technology/r....

TIL the term "vibes coding" www.404media.co/this-game-cr...

Always great to see some numbers to back up assumptions on link hallucinations and how LLMs source links for RAG models

As reported, the entire staff of 538 was laid off this morning. This is a severe blow to political data journalism, and I feel for my colleagues. Readers note: As we were instructed not to publish any new content, all planned updates to polls data and averages are canceled indefinitely. Huge loss :(

We just launched tldraw computer

I backed Tachyon's Particle in August thinking by the time it arrived surely I'd have a project in mind for it... Now here I am getting the board this month and I still haven't thought of what to do. Bird call audio ID? Home assistant server? J.A.R.V.I.S.? www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

Absolutely fabulous crew.

RIP fuzzybars. long live PostPulse www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...

See how people like you vote and how that’s changed over time www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...

My colleagues and I used A.I. to sift through over 400 hours of video recordings and pinpoint salient moments that helped inform this piece's reporting. It was great to collaborate with Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Duy Nguyen, Juliana Castro Varon and Matt Ruby on this investigation.

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