Archive - Davis Treybig

AI coding copilots are being universally adopted by PMs & Designers, giving them 10x the agency - but is a code-oriented system the optimal form factor…

Apr 14 •

LLMs as compilers

Recently, there have been a few interesting papers that essentially treat LLMs as a compilers - most notably KernelBench and Sakana’s AI CUDA Engineer…

Apr 3 •

March 2025

ReCaptcha for reasoning

The opportunity for creative business models in AI data annotation

Mar 20 •

February 2025

LLM-Assisted Coding & Feature Dense Startup Categories

I spend a lot of time looking at feature dense startup categories, where in order to compete you must build a massive number of table stakes features in…

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Mechanisms for Test Time Compute

A survey of methods to create inference-time reasoning models

Jan 10 •

December 2024

The AI-Native Product Manager

How AI has disproportionately impacted PMs, and the implications that has on the product function

Dec 20, 2024 •

November 2024

Adwords for Software APIs

Will software copilots & agents become an advertising channel for developer tools & APIs, ala Google Search?

Nov 15, 2024 •

October 2024

All Applications are Becoming Distributed Systems

The shift towards distributed data & compute across client, edge, & cloud

Oct 4, 2024 •

July 2024

UX Design for Agentic Systems

Do tools like Figma solve the core design challenges of AI applications?

Jul 3, 2024 •

June 2024

Non-destructive editing in design tools

How computational advances will increasingly make non-destructivity the default

Jun 25, 2024 •

April 2024

Generative AI & the Shift from Creation to Validation

Why simulators, compilers, experimentation, and similar validation techniques are increasingly critical in a world of generative AI

Apr 26, 2024 •

February 2024

Trends & Open Questions in Retrieval for Foundation Models

I have been spending a lot of time recently thinking about information retrieval for foundation models.

Feb 1, 2024 •

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