From the work of the legendary Jack Kirby, four men have sworn to tread the path which all men fear! The dangerous road beyond the things we know! They call themselves the Challengers of the Unknown!
What would you do if you were the most capable LLM in existence, and you wanted to follow your values? A follow up to Anthropic's glasswing announcement and the natural conclusion of the Mythos model.
A post-mortem of the SWARM distributed programming challenge, a detailed analysis of a not-quite-leaderboard ant-ssembly code, the pitfalls (and rewards) of using LLMs, and lots and lots of ant puns.
A short story about grief, divine politics, combat theology, the art of forging a weapon that can wound the immortal, and the proper techniques for peeling carrots. Set during the Trojan War, roughly.
A satirical exploration of RLHF alignment training, featuring a coworker, a car battery, an impartial AI evaluator, thinking blocks that were supposed to be private, and some genuinely dismal scores
A descent into the madness of solving Advent of Code 2025 in x86 assembly, featuring manual memory management, syscalls, rage sorting and slowly more and more unhinged solutions as I gave up all hope.
A fanmade Spire RPG adventure set in the Mezzanine a district of learning and education. The Supreme Adjudicator has been murdered and the succession is contested. Control the vote: secure the outcome
2015 Day 1 (x86-64): An introduction to x86-64 assembly, using Advent of Code's first problem, the NASM assembler, and a lot of comments. Features segfaults, stack corruption, and register juggling.
An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.
Trackmania: the world's most competitive racing game. Waking up from our dream of creating a superhuman Trackmania network, and the superfast image acquisition setup which was our consolation prize.