Vercel Ship
What it takes to make agents useful once generating code is the easy part. Eleven takeaways from Vercel Ship: durable execution, portable context, generative UI, and verification engineering—with diagrams and frames from the livestream.
Maggie
Chen.
curious about p. 01
Generative UI, applied.
Software stops being built and starts being summoned. The paradigm shift, the protocols (AG-UI, A2UI), the three structural patterns, PAGEN benchmark, vibe coding's QA crisis, and the bottlenecks that decide whether the whole thing scales.
Inside the box. Over time.
How frontier AI is being made transparent (mechanistic interpretability) and adaptive (continuous learning). Superposition, sparse autoencoders, the pragmatic pivot, catastrophic forgetting, and what changes for working data scientists.
The architecture of intelligence
24 months of frontier-model evolution as a field guide. Knowledge cutoffs, MoE routing, the synthetic-data loop, the transparency collapse.
The technology trap, applied
Carl Benedikt Frey's history of automation, translated for AI-era founders. Labor-enabling vs replacing, Engels' Pause repeating now, why the cluster traps itself, and TAM ≠ buyer.
What's actually working on Product Hunt
Six months of featured launches (3,311 of them), regressed with confidence intervals.
LLMs, end to end
Karpathy's 3.5-hour deep dive: tokenization quirks, SFT, RLHF, RL on reasoning, plus six pieces of "LLM psychology."
Karpathy on LLMs, in metaphors
His 1-hour intro distilled: two files, the zip of the internet, the reversal curse, the LLM OS analogy.
career p. 02
2014—16
Twitter
Ads & Revenue
Ads & Revenue
2016—18
Google
Photos
Photos
2018—20
Google
Ecosystem Analytics & Strategy
Ecosystem Analytics & Strategy
2020—22
Google
Search Quality & Infra
Search Quality & Infra
2022—25
Tinder
Recommendations & Experimentation
Recommendations & Experimentation
Oct 2025–Oct 2026
Abridge AI
Eval & Product
Eval & Product
Oct 2026–present
Tinkering & angel investing
Robotics, neuroplasticity & YC startups
Robotics, neuroplasticity & YC startups
reach me p. 03
Reality is a concept. So is Tuesday. Live curiously.