August 2026 links

I've been sitting on this one for a bit and just haven't actually found many links to post in a while.

I kept hoping to have more non-social media posts to link here, but it just kinda failed. Well, so much for that. I’ve been mostly reading and cooking and stuff! Touching grass! It’s great. I’ll write some more about it. But not on the links post!

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference

Basically, hallucinations are a fundamental given in LLMs. This has been known for a bit, but here’s one of the earlier proofs.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon_dysphoria

This is fascinating. I’m not sure how much I agree with all of it, on some level, but I do think it’s an incredibly worthwhile read about how strange the tech industry can be.

https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

As described on bluesky, someone rediscovers the concept of technical debt from first principles after extensive use of AI tooling.

https://youtu.be/o4I-Y8XiBIs?si=T3I_grGortJhPrbO

Weird Al did another Tiny Desk concert for NPR!