Dan Luu

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Dan Luu is a writer and technologist known for his in-depth analysis and commentary on technology, software engineering, and related topics. His website features a collection of essays and articles that explore various aspects of technology and its impact.

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2024-10-28 •

The blog post discusses the common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. The author argues that this narrative underrates Ballmer's role in Mi...

2024-08-11 •

The blog post discusses the game Codenames and the author's curiosity about how good someone would be at the game if they memorized all 40 setup cards. The author also explores the use of AI assistants to write the code for the po...

2024-06-16 •

The text discusses the issue of AI bias and how it is perceived differently in the case of LLMs and generative AI compared to classical bugs. It provides examples of AI bias and the responses to it, and argues that the common defe...

2024-05-26 •

The blog post discusses the FTC's antitrust investigation into Google and the release of internal memos a decade later. The author, who works in tech, highlights the lack of understanding of the tech industry by the FTC, particula...

2024-03-16 •

The text discusses how web bloat impacts users with slow devices. It explains that while internet speeds have increased, CPU performance for web apps hasn't scaled as quickly, making the web inaccessible for people with low-end de...

2024-02-18 •

The text discusses the issue of diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation. It compares the trustworthiness of large and small platforms, and the quality of support and moderation they provide. The author argues...

2024-02-07 •

The text discusses the difficulty of reaching agreement on moderation rules for large platforms, using a simple game as an example. It highlights the challenges of interpreting rules and the lack of consensus on rule interpretatio...

2024-01-29 •

The text is a set of notes on the Quinn Emanuel report on Cruise's handling of the 2023-10-02 accident where a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) hit a pedestrian, stopped, and then started moving again with the pedestrian stuck under...

2024-01-25 •

The blog post discusses why people choose to post on short-form platforms like Twitter, Mastodon, etc., instead of long-form platforms like blogs. The author explores four main reasons for this: engagement, friends, lower friction...

2023-12-30 •

The blog post compares search results from various search engines and ChatGPT, and discusses the quality of the results, the prevalence of scams, and the impact of ads on search results. The author also questions the bias in searc...

2022-12-11 •

The text is a transcription of Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise. The media seems to want to paint a highly unflatter...

2022-10-01 •

The blog post is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and converted from a fuzzy scan to text. It discusses conversations between Elon Musk and various individ...

2022-09-12 •

The blog post discusses the accuracy of futurist predictions and evaluates the track record of well-known futurists. The author found that most futurists had a poor record of predictions, and those who had relatively accurate pred...

2022-04-06 •

The blog post discusses the benefits of simple architectures in technology, using the example of a $1.7B company with a standard CRUD app architecture. It highlights the effectiveness of simple architectures in handling high-traff...

2022-03-14 •

The text discusses the inefficiencies in the market and the difficulty of finding products and services that work well. It highlights the challenges of hiring, buying products, and outsourcing services. The author provides example...

2022-02-21 •

The blog post discusses the issue of misidentifying talent, using baseball scouting reports as an example. It highlights how people are often biased by unconscious and conscious biases when assessing talent, and how this can lead ...

2022-02-02 •

The blog post is a collection of information on severe incidents at Twitter that were at least partially attributed to cache from 2012 to 2022. The incidents are analyzed to preserve historical knowledge and to look at incidents a...

2022-02-02 •

The text discusses the phenomenon of people with superficial knowledge of a field giving their ideas on how to fix the field's problems. The author gives examples of how this happens in the field of engineering and technology, and...

2021-12-18 •

The text discusses the container throttling problem at Twitter, where most CPU bound services start falling over at around 50% reserved container CPU utilization. The document describes potential solutions to this problem, includi...

2021-12-13 •

The text discusses the importance of finding a writing style that suits the individual and the context they operate in, rather than copying someone else's style. The author compares the writing styles of popular programming blogge...