david
@davidtsong
building ai, prev investing, and cs student
I surveyed 30+ AI researchers, builders, and VCs on what actually matters in AI right now: what what they pay for, companies to invest in, hot takes, etc. Here's what AI insiders think 2025+ will bring:
Why you should stop working on RL research and instead work on product // The technology that unlocked the big scaling shift in AI is the internet, not transformers I think it's well known that data is the most important thing in AI, and also that researchers choose not to work…
in next year or so, all the cool kids are going to have mac minis / open AI agent boxes plugged in at home
in this blog post: - i explain "rawdogging" - i go on a polemic against virtual browsers - i explain why claude can have little a computer as a treat
(Tegus+Accenture).ai
Today one could bootstrap a consultancy that’s powered by a good powerpoint generator + deep research. Learn to speak enterprise (ELI5) and sell AI knowledge + implementation to people outside the Bay. Tell your clients that your slide deck was built by AI and they'll trust you…
So I think something else that doesn't get discussed much is the extrapolation of this inference : training trend - 2015: back in the day, we would train one model per dataset, and inference it once (to obtain the eval result for our paper) - 2020: with chatgpt, multi-task…
love this blog post about ai x gaming. it's maybe the most undervalued application for AI. also kevin's blog is 10/10- i kind of want to keep it a secret
A somewhat little known fact about me is that I have a blog 😀 Over the weekend I got around to writing up some of my thoughts on the recent LLM-Pokemon craze, and why I think video games are more interesting than most (maybe older) AI researchers think - Why is Pokemon hard,…
see the AI demos Stanford student built last quarter👇👇
FAF spring demo day projects were insane: distributed inference, plasmid design, voice agents and so much more! here’s a thread of all demos we recorded…
I'm hosting a small community where AI power users (who spend $500+/mo on AI) share learnings while optimizing their AI stacks and workflows. Reply w/ how much $ you spend on AI/month to request an invite.
just noticed Cursor has sound effects when coding (when errors appear, code runs successfully, terminal commands run) does this mean a SWE makes music when coding well? and background agents would make music like a band or orchestra? with the human listening as the conductor
only FAF can host a demo day the week before finals and get insane turnout + the most incredible vibes from our epic community 🚀😮💨 here's what stanford's builders have been cooking this quarter: 🧵
the IDE war begins
Unfortunately, Anthropic did not provide our users direct access to Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 on day one. We are actively working to find capacity elsewhere so we can continue to provide the most versatile and powerful AI assistance platform, period. That is our only focus. To…
I'm crowdsourcing the most useful AI use cases, infra & products in 2025. Top AI founders, researchers & VCs are sharing their AI stacks. Contribute through the form in my bio and I'll: * email you the results * give you a shoutout Comment "alpha" below and I'll DM you results.…
I surveyed AI experts on how they use AI and what they are looking forward to in 2024. Here's my findings and some fun charts: (I also wrote a post - link in bio)
don't search, think from first principles
Web search functionality has, in a way, made LLMs worse to use. "That's a great question. I'm a superintelligence but let me just check with some SEO articles to be sure."
only a matter of time before there's a gpt4o generated picture in an art museum