You don't need a hyperscaler
Training frontier models is cathedral work. Running useful inference is not. My bet: serious builders will own more of their intelligence than the API era wants them to.
Marvin Danig
Personal website of Marvin Danig — builder, founder, writer, and optimist.
Latest posts
Scaling integrity: Our final connection
Machines can make competence look abundant. They cannot make a person keep their word. In the post-AI era, integrity becomes the scarce infrastructure.
Unhobbled gobble
A revisit of my 2011 machine-awareness essay through Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness, unhobbling, and the uncomfortable question of who owns the stack.
The Indian angel and VC ecosystem: A case study in collective shortsightedness
A blunt look at India's domestic angel and VC ecosystem: good headlines, weak ownership, currency drag, and too little global ambition.
Us and them
A night at Roger Waters' 2017 concert in Washington DC: the wall, the spectacle, and the Pink Floyd sound doing its old work.
Books are not files
Books are not files, and treating them that way has made digital publishing duller than it needed to be.
Technology is aware, or will be
A 2011 essay on AI, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and machine awareness, revisited after the future arrived more quietly than expected.