56,966 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789cea7e58e", "title": "New type of guy: top tier black hat hacker who is disgusted with AI because now he just sits there…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828881099466883072", "published_at": "2026-09-27T04:16:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789cf99ad5d", "title": "Well, it’s certainly not good.", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828847358600167425", "published_at": "2026-09-26T19:20:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789cff87f9a", "title": "I had a dream that I was in San Francisco, talking to a woman about her start up, and when I asked…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828842426750976000", "published_at": "2026-09-26T18:02:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789d09df3ce", "title": "I spent some time today combing through some old, unfinished short stories, and have realized just…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828841592766988288", "published_at": "2026-09-26T17:48:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789d0d4167d", "title": "Netflix has a new Unabomber movie out, and I’m eager to see it, not because I think it’ll be good…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828780012125700097", "published_at": "2026-09-26T01:30:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789d146f17f", "title": "My son, seeing a bunch of carefully cut trees, approvingly: They’re like Minecraft.", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828774703211692032", "published_at": "2026-09-26T00:05:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789d1e3939e", "title": "I started writing a follow-up post to the “Over-indexing on AI Math and Coding” post where I go…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828702059132010496", "published_at": "2026-09-25T04:51:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e314-e262-7084-b04e-0789d2053e96", "title": "Any working programmer is better at programming than I am, and even when I was a full-time…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828692912790519809", "published_at": "2026-09-25T02:25:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d88687469d", "title": "New Substack post: Overindexing on AI Math and Coding", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828660689774215168", "published_at": "2026-09-24T17:53:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d88769f1d8", "title": "Anthropic: They are trying to distill our models and use the answers from them in order to make…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828620384518733824", "published_at": "2026-09-24T07:12:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d88849bfb2", "title": "Important thought that I’m mostly recording here for posterity because it occurred to me when I saw…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828396284798976000", "published_at": "2026-09-21T19:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d88917b7a1", "title": "The first seven chapters of Doomsday Pivot! 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Like, is it still necessary to learn the ropes of a language or engine to be able to make a game resembling what you want?", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828072386656108544", "published_at": "2026-09-18T06:02:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d88e6bc9df", "title": "I can understand this when it comes to art and games, but when it comes to programming, this is how…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828062498428223488", "published_at": "2026-09-18T03:25:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d88f67f83d", "title": "You know, I should have known before, but working on this idle game has made me realize that I’ll…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828047982026997760", "published_at": "2026-09-17T23:34:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d8905fe3e0", "title": "One of the things I’ve been running into when editing Doomsday Pivot! is the issue of epistemic…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/828035675149549568", "published_at": "2026-09-17T20:19:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d89115d6a6", "title": "It actually does bug me that there’s not a connection between Roland Barthes La mort de l'auteur and…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827856117767012352", "published_at": "2026-09-15T20:45:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d514-f4a1-7058-98cd-56d892131f25", "title": "My parents are both divorced and came to me independently to ask about AI safety. 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The…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827226855624097792", "published_at": "2026-09-08T22:03:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea8-7365-83ff-6ffca57d71b9", "title": "I do think that it would be fun to have a colony game that took place over realistic timelines. You…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827216984050647040", "published_at": "2026-09-08T19:26:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea8-7365-83ff-6ffca5c09fd8", "title": "New Substack post, “Could a frontier model beat The Witness?”", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827145527638523904", "published_at": "2026-09-08T00:30:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea8-7365-83ff-6ffca62f0666", "title": "2002 me, reading the Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook: Cyberpsychosis is stupid, why would having a metallic…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827127048144355328", "published_at": "2026-09-07T19:37:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea8-7365-83ff-6ffca71491b0", "title": "GPT-6 Astra is making me really worried about whether itch.io or Steam are going to survive the…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827112058789232640", "published_at": "2026-09-07T15:38:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea8-7365-83ff-6ffca764194b", "title": "Is there any news/updates on when AGARES, Wysteria, and Slag are coming to Royal Road?", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/827048168930836480", "published_at": "2026-09-06T22:43:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea8-7365-83ff-6ffca83895c4", "title": "I don’t know how seriously to take this, but my gut says “not very seriously”. 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I’m also starting to vibe code games and want to learn 🙃🙏", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/826985368472682496", "published_at": "2026-09-06T06:05:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea9-71e6-b9c9-db9afc7a8648", "title": "Went up the shore with my son today and got to see some of the natural beauty of northern Minnesota….", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/826949886143561728", "published_at": "2026-09-05T20:41:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea9-71e6-b9c9-db9afd489e60", "title": "I’m going to blame games a little for this one, because cyberpsychosis is mechanically simple and at…", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/826949069542981632", "published_at": "2026-09-05T20:28:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea9-71e6-b9c9-db9afe351de3", "title": "you are a tar pit", "url": "https://alexanderwales.tumblr.com/post/826930736988930048", "published_at": "2026-09-05T15:36:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-aea9-71e6-b9c9-db9afed5a273", "title": "I ended up vibe coding this to get a proof of concept. 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New type of guy: top tier black hat hacker who is disgusted with AI because now he just sits there…original ↗

27 Sept 2026

Well, it’s certainly not good.original ↗

26 Sept 2026

I had a dream that I was in San Francisco, talking to a woman about her start up, and when I asked…original ↗

26 Sept 2026

I spent some time today combing through some old, unfinished short stories, and have realized just…original ↗

26 Sept 2026

Netflix has a new Unabomber movie out, and I’m eager to see it, not because I think it’ll be good…original ↗

26 Sept 2026

My son, seeing a bunch of carefully cut trees, approvingly: They’re like Minecraft.original ↗

26 Sept 2026

I started writing a follow-up post to the “Over-indexing on AI Math and Coding” post where I go…original ↗

25 Sept 2026

Any working programmer is better at programming than I am, and even when I was a full-time…original ↗

25 Sept 2026

New Substack post: Overindexing on AI Math and Coding original ↗

24 Sept 2026

Anthropic: They are trying to distill our models and use the answers from them in order to make…original ↗

24 Sept 2026

Important thought that I’m mostly recording here for posterity because it occurred to me when I saw…original ↗

21 Sept 2026

The first seven chapters of Doomsday Pivot! are now available on my Patreon, and posting to…original ↗

21 Sept 2026

No, there is not, I will canonize “#island sim” and then go back and retroactively tag some stuff.original ↗

21 Sept 2026

Did the first 40-year run for my idle game last night, and you can see the expansion from an initial…original ↗

21 Sept 2026

Final edit of Doomsday Pivot! is complete, and the first chapters should be on Patreon Monday, then…original ↗

20 Sept 2026

There’s a part of me that thinks that this is really cool and useful, that there are so many…original ↗

20 Sept 2026

I got access to JEV, the new AI model that only answers with “Y” or “N”, or whatever structured data…original ↗

20 Sept 2026

I’ve collected a lot of phone numbers from other parents when I meet them at school functions or…original ↗

19 Sept 2026

Me, an intellectual: ah, I can’t say they’re dangerous, I must write that they look dangerous, else…original ↗

19 Sept 2026

I went looking through some old game idea/design docs and found a write up for “pikmin…original ↗

18 Sept 2026

I woke up to a voicemail from my son’s school, “Don’t worry, the water that’s been ingested was…original ↗

18 Sept 2026

How hard would you say it seems for someone who doesn’t have much experience coding to be able to use these tools to make games? Like, is it still necessary to learn the ropes of a language or engine to be able to make a game resembling what you want?original ↗

18 Sept 2026

I can understand this when it comes to art and games, but when it comes to programming, this is how…original ↗

18 Sept 2026

You know, I should have known before, but working on this idle game has made me realize that I’ll…original ↗

17 Sept 2026

One of the things I’ve been running into when editing Doomsday Pivot! is the issue of epistemic…original ↗

17 Sept 2026

It actually does bug me that there’s not a connection between Roland Barthes La mort de l'auteur and…original ↗

15 Sept 2026

My parents are both divorced and came to me independently to ask about AI safety. I assume this is…original ↗

15 Sept 2026

Independently, today:original ↗

15 Sept 2026

Sam sat me down at her computer and clicked play on the simulation. I watched the little villagers…original ↗

12 Sept 2026

I just got an alert from my phone (Android) that I was traveling with an AirTag, and whoever owns…original ↗

11 Sept 2026

I think that if I ever had a bunch of money, I would start making a line of simple apps that had no…original ↗

11 Sept 2026

1970s scifi authors: Artificial intelligences will obey the letter of an order but not the spirit,…original ↗

11 Sept 2026

1970s scifi authors: Artificial intelligences will need to be rebooted regularly to prevent them…original ↗

11 Sept 2026

Sometimes I feel like I’m a pretty intelligent person.original ↗

11 Sept 2026

I really do love all the ways that scifi was both right and wrong about AI.original ↗

11 Sept 2026

She stokes on my navier until I blow up original ↗

10 Sept 2026

There are a few major obstacles, but I actually think it is doable now, depending on exactly what…original ↗

10 Sept 2026

I saw someone comparing the Nathan Fielder vs. Elizabeth Holmes documentary trailer to Death Note…original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Doomsday Pivot Foreword original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Wasn’t relativity also basically useless and then we made nukes and gps with it?original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Maybe we’ll find out that Navier-Stokes doesn’t model physics perfectly and figure out a way to.original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Me: I’ve just been reading about these AI breakthroughs in math, huge outstanding conjectures…original ↗

9 Sept 2026

I had an idea for “simulation LOD” which I figured must already have been in use everywhere. The…original ↗

8 Sept 2026

I do think that it would be fun to have a colony game that took place over realistic timelines. You…original ↗

8 Sept 2026

New Substack post, “Could a frontier model beat The Witness?”original ↗

8 Sept 2026

2002 me, reading the Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook: Cyberpsychosis is stupid, why would having a metallic…original ↗

7 Sept 2026

GPT-6 Astra is making me really worried about whether itch.io or Steam are going to survive the…original ↗

7 Sept 2026

Is there any news/updates on when AGARES, Wysteria, and Slag are coming to Royal Road?original ↗

6 Sept 2026

I don’t know how seriously to take this, but my gut says “not very seriously”. It doesn’t seem to me…original ↗

6 Sept 2026

It was recently revealed the Danny Boyle’s new movie Ink will use about 30 seconds of AI-generated…original ↗

6 Sept 2026

Actual question, not a troll: when you vibecoded the 4d bullet hell shape game, how did you make so that simply clicking the link went to the playable game itself? I’m also starting to vibe code games and want to learn 🙃🙏original ↗

6 Sept 2026

Went up the shore with my son today and got to see some of the natural beauty of northern Minnesota….original ↗

5 Sept 2026

I’m going to blame games a little for this one, because cyberpsychosis is mechanically simple and at…original ↗

5 Sept 2026

you are a tar pit original ↗

5 Sept 2026

I ended up vibe coding this to get a proof of concept. It turned out to be not terribly fun, as…original ↗

5 Sept 2026

I played an hour of Star Wars: Zero Company, as it’s been a while since I’ve played an X-COM type…original ↗

5 Sept 2026

Game idea: it’s a bullet hell game, but you’re not just avoiding shapes or bullet sprays, you’re a…original ↗

4 Sept 2026

I’ve started on a reread of House of Leaves, which I last read nearly 20 years ago. It’s actually…original ↗

4 Sept 2026

There’s a subreddit called /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke where people post memes or images or jokes they…original ↗

4 Sept 2026