Rami's Readings #127 - Karpathy on AGI & NanoChat
The latest on AI, LLMs, Karpathy on AGI, NanoChat, AI Bubble Fears, the Programmer Identity Crisis, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #127 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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📈 Top Recent Editions According to Substack
🤖 AI Reads
Must Watch from Andrej Karpathy
Notes: Read the X post and the HN comments. Andrej’s contribution to AI education is unmatched, see NanoChat below.
karpathy / nanochat
Notes: Karpathy released nanochat. It’s a fun project, but it’s so clean that you can make it all yours in any way you like. Make sure to read the discussion.
This repo is a full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase.
Things I’ve Learned in My 7 Years Implementing AI
Notes: AI will not escape the S-Curve either.
The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs
Notes: Fantastic paper from Meta.
💼 Business Reads
Observations on AI and the Capital Markets in 2025
Notes: Interesting perspective on all the bubble fears.
“Fuck You” Companies
Notes: Funny read for startup founders but it makes an excellent point. Be different.
Rare Earths Aren’t Rare
Notes: Marginal Revolution on rare earths.
🔀 Other Reads
The Programmer Identity Crisis
Notes: I hear this a lot now.
The Secret Life of a Local-First Value
Notes: CRDT with SQLite!
rictic / jsonriver
Notes: Useful for parsing JSON from LLMs as it is streamed.
A simple, fast streaming JSON parser built on standards.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.