L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Great line and excellent summation of current challenge: "You need to get distribution before the incumbent gets innovation" - Alex Rampell 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I like this "decide-execute-deliver" framing: www.normaltech.ai/p/why-ai-has...normaltech.aiWhy AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’tCoding agents as normal technology 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 13/04/2026This is a really cool set of policy overviews for managing the disruption from transformative AI: windfalltrust.org/policy-atlas...windfalltrust.orgSearch Our Policies | Windfall Policy AtlasAn overview of policy proposals to respond to the economic disruption from transformative AI. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Stanford's Human Centered AI team has their new AI report out! hai.stanford.edu/assets/files...hai.stanford.edu 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 25/02/2026💃 @sebastianraschka.com has a new review of the new architectural developments in open weights models. The gorgeous comparison graphics are so helpful in drawing out the nuanced differences! open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...open.substack.comA Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Lovely phrasing by author Mark Haddon: “Our humanity is not an individual quality that can be measured and traded and celebrated and ignored, but an activity, a thing human beings do together.” Are we only human if we recognize, and are recognized by, other humans as human? 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 15/02/2026“Most of us who work in AI are building on top of foundations we didn't lay. We're watching this unfold the same as you... we just happen to be close enough to feel the ground shake first.” shumer.dev/something-bi... I think about that a lot. What can my contribution to a positive outcome be?shumer.devSomething Big Is HappeningA personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Building is now a process of creating .md files. If you can articulate it, you can create it. Amazing how fast that has happened. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 04/02/2026GoFundMe needs better payment options. Reduce friction with Google Pay, Apple Pay, Stripe Link, whatever, as many modern, secure options as possible. You want one click generosity to help the most people possible. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Tthe advent of Agentic Skill usage will make the clear articulation of policy, including elucidating exceptions, far more important. Those .md docs in the /reference folders...better be bulletproof. The current careless documentation and reliance on human interpretation of policy is unsustainable. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Researching SKILL.md format and I'm reminded yet again that GenX is extremely well-positioned to deliver value with AI. If you've done business process reengineering✋, core competency analysis✋, value-add activity analysis✋, or role/task outsourcing, these skills are ideal matches for agentic AI. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 22/12/2025"if you stick a modern LLM inside a scaffold...the AI system performs a lot better...it suggests...humans who are good at managing other humans and codifying the management processes they use are...well positioned to build elicitation frameworks to supercharge the performance of...AI."-ImportAI#438 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 12/11/2025You wouldn’t hire a VP based solely on their SAT scores.” While GDPVal is exponentially better than an SAT score, you need to do your own evaluation on model-task fit along multiple metrics. Giving your AI a Job Interview open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...open.substack.comGiving your AI a Job InterviewAs AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it 020
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Gotta admit I find it mildly horrifying how often I voluntarily watch commercials. Just because I find someone slightly engaging in some way, I sit through 60-180 seconds of trying to sell me something I will never use because I don't wear makeup and have the fashion sense of a StarTrek character. 😂 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I'm skeptical when I hear AI experts dismiss generated code as "always worse" because I find code quality to be subjective in terms of which metrics you prioritize - efficiency, safety, maintainability, design-for-change, etc. Thus, equally qualified experts may reasonably disagree. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The existence of “work slop” is not a statement on the participation of AI in workflows. It’s a statement on the quality of our workflow design. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 05/10/2025My preferred analogy for ML is dog training.Supervised (command/treat) is easy.Unsupervised is wild - never know what patterns they'll pick up.Home camera notifications make a sound on my phone.As do other alerts, obv. My dog now connects any alert with "intruders",lol. Models may similarly surprise 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Always generous with his time, here is another thorough explainer from @sebastianraschka.com : LLM Evaluation, with code!! open.substack.com/pub/sebastia... Coincidentally, I also was just digging into evals & found TruLens; recommend checking that out, too.open.substack.comUnderstanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)Multiple-Choice Benchmarks, Verifiers, Leaderboards, and LLM Judges with Code Examples 020
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 30/09/2025An under-appreciated aspect of Gen AI apps is the process of testing them. That step exposes weaknesses in your business foundations - sloppy data, poor governance, ill-designed security, incomplete documentation, unknowledgeable knowledge workers, etc. AI isn't magic so get your house in order. 000
Reposted by L QueraKarl Weinmeister @kweinmeister.bsky.social · 26/09/2025You have four autonomy dials you can tune in your agentic AI system. Are you using them? medium.com/google-cloud...medium.comThe Agency Spectrum: An AI Risk Management FrameworkWe can now build autonomous systems that pursue meaningful, high-level goals. Yet, for every inspiring success story, there is a… 001
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Wow, have you seen this new benchmark from OpenAI, GDPval? Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 came in close to human parity on an eval of 44 professional occupations across the top 9 industries in US GDP. Gemini 2.5Pro scored about half as well and I'm so curious why. openai.com/index/gdpval/openai.comMeasuring the performance of our models on real-world tasksWe’re introducing GDPval, a new evaluation that measures model performance on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations. 110
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one." Neil Postman I've had so many Orwell v Huxley debates*...never imagined we'd wind up with both at the same time. 100
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"We are so fixated on how technology will out-skill us that we miss the many ways that technology can de-skill us." Derek Thompson www.derekthompson.org/p/the-end-of...derekthompson.orgThe End of ThinkingThe rise of AI's "thinking" machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is. 010
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Interesting data on the use of LLMs - topics, geographies, user education levels, etc. - from both OpenAI openai.com/index/how-pe... and Anthropic: www.anthropic.com/research/ant... Growth acceleration coming from low-mid-income countries so will be fascinating to see impacts of AI dispersion.anthropic.comAnthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoptionTo study such patterns of early AI adoption, we extend the Anthropic Economic Index along two important dimensions, introducing a geographic analysis of Claude.ai conversations and a first-of-its-kind... 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 20/09/2025TIL there's another player in privacy-preserving ML! JAX-Privacy from Google-DeepMind enables differentially-private training. Add this to your toolbox, along with OpenMined and Flower. jax-privacy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Haven't tried it yet but docs include a LoRA fine-tuning example.jax-privacy.readthedocs.ioJAX Privacy documentation — JAX Privacy 0.4.0 documentation 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Agent2Agent looks super useful! Thanks, @developers.google.com ! "Build with ADK (or any framework), equip with MCP (or any tool), and communicate with A2A to remote agents, local agents, and humans. " a2a-protocol.org/latest/a2a-protocol.orgA2A ProtocolThe Agent2Agent protocol is an open standard that allows different AI agents to securely communicate, collaborate, and solve complex problems together. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Simple yet hard wisdom from Ryan Holiday's blog: "Don’t become implicated in the ugliness. Don’t let it infect you. Don’t become cynical or bitter... Don’t let bad times make you a bad person." ryanholiday.net/you-must-avo...ryanholiday.netYou Must Avoid Getting Corrupted By This - RyanHoliday.netI’m giving a talk in Austin next week (only a few tickets left) and San Diego in February. Grab seats and come see me! My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter ins... 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 14/09/2025"The paradox of working with AI wizards is that competence and opacity rise together...embrace provisional trust...working with “good enough”...because perfect verification is becoming impossible." New from @emollick.bsky.social on the changing relationship with agents: substack.com/app-link/pos...substack.comOn Working with WizardsVerifying magic on the jagged frontier 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 13/09/2025If you're struggling to get your agents to factor complex business processes into their tool-calling, Knowledge Graphs are a great idea. See SAP's course on DeepLearningAI to learn more from the business process experts: learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/know...learn.deeplearning.aiKnowledge Graphs for AI Agent: API Discovery - DeepLearning.AIConstruct a knowledge graph and use it to enable your AI agent to find and call the right APIs in the right order. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 13/09/2025“All the manifestations of the world of measurement, the winning & losing..., all are based on a single assumption that is hidden from our awareness.The assumption is that life is about staying alive & making it through, surviving in a world of scarcity and peril.”The Art of Possibility h/t tferriss 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Excellent post by @sebastianraschka.com on the Qwen architecture, with code! magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/qwen3-from...magazine.sebastianraschka.comUnderstanding and Implementing Qwen3 From ScratchA Detailed Look at One of the Leading Open-Source LLMs 010
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 04/09/2025The more we see examples of bot misuse, some with tragic consequences, the more we need to focus on security rather than pure functionality. I found this as an option to explore: ai.meta.com/research/pub...ai.meta.comLlamaFirewall: An open source guardrail system for building secure AI agents | Research - AI at MetaLarge language models (LLMs) have evolved from simple chatbots into autonomous agents capable of performing complex tasks such as editing production... 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 18/08/2025One thing you notice immediately with Gemini-2.5-pro is that the context management is insanely good. That's going to become even more of a competitive differentiator as we move our app design mindset to context engineering. Latency may be weaker but personally, I'll take quality over speed. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I'm continually delighted by Gemini-2.5-pro. It handles whatever I throw at it like a pro (aptly named 😀) and is just plain pleasant to work with. I haven't played with GPT5 much yet simply because I'm happy where I am. I want to compare to ensure I leverage the best but how much better could it be? 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 28/07/2025As someone with many combat badges from the BPR wars, this post from @emollick.bsky.social resonated. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu... Leverage the power of AI as alien intelligence, a fresh perspective on old problems. Oh, the possibilities!open.substack.comThe Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage CanDoes process matter? We are about to find out. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I know little of sports but I'd love to know how big league coaches do it.How do they create a team with psychological safety when star talent is rewarded so differently?One of my greatest joys is building happy, performant teams but they've been teams of equals.Been too long since I've read Wooden. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The recent "hacquihires" are so depressing. The impact on teamwork will be immediate. If only star talent wins, everyone needs to jockey for position with elbows out, fighting for every ounce of credit. Of course, everyone has always been incentivized to build a brand but this feels different. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Cool paper from 2016, the pre-Transformers era! Serendipitous timing for me since I was just thinking about guardrail design this morning. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Sloppy language has always bothered me, for innumerable reasons. Now it bothers me for a new reason: I view all published text as eventual AI inputs. Let us not build sloppiness into our collective knowledge base. Take that extra minute to proofread for all the generations that come after us. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Fascinating dive into changes in LLM architecture from @sebastianraschka.com Always worth reading his Substack open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...open.substack.comThe Big LLM Architecture ComparisonFrom DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 13/07/2025If you are not reading @kyla.bsky.social at substack.com/@kyla you are missing out. Useful insights on economics from a fresh perspective with fun analogies and innovative language.substack.comkyla scanlon | Substackmacro and the stock market 000
Reposted by L QueraAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 10/07/2025FlexOlmo opens the door to a new paradigm of collaborative AI development. Data owners who want to contribute to the open, shared language model ecosystem can now participate on their own terms. FlexOlmo is transparent, secure, and explainable end-to-end. 133
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Hey, GenXers! Remember BPR? Those skills you acquired - identifying value-added tasks, core competencies, critical chains - have never been more valuable. In an age of Robotic/Agentic Process Automation, these are essential activities.You've seen them done well and the consequences when done poorly. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 02/07/2025PSA: If you're feeling "projecty", the Library of Congress also offers free APIs to access legislation. github.com/LibraryOfCon...github.comGitHub - LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov: congress.gov APIcongress.gov API. Contribute to LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 02/07/2025PSA: You can download a pdf of any legislative text from the Library of Congress so you can then upload it to an LLM and collaborate on an analysis. For example, you could go here and click the PDF tab: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...congress.govJust a moment...Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 02/07/2025PSA: The Library of Congress is a fabulous resource to cut through the noise and read the actual text of legislation. For example: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...congress.govJust a moment...Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Reading @simonwillison.net today I came across this excellent piece on Context management by @dbreunig.bsky.social www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/h...dbreunig.comHow to Fix Your Context6 tactics for fixing your context and shipping better agents. As Karpathy says, building LLM-powered apps means learning to ‘pack the context windows just right’—smartly deploying tools, managing info... 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I'm really pleased with the Gemini Code Assist extension in VSCode, so thank you, Google! It's free to test and use with your personal gmail so try it out. 000
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Reading philosophy has been my comfort lately and this seems useful for all of us to ponder: Kant’s categorical imperative “Act only according to the maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.” 010
L Quera @lquera.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Super important analysis from @simonwillison.net on AI Agent security issues: open.substack.com/pub/simonw/p... Please read and share so we get more minds thinking about thisopen.substack.comThe lethal trifecta for AI agentsPlus reviews of two new papers about prompt injection, and Anthropic's tips on building multi-agent LLM systems 010