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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 06/10/2026

📝 New blog post: Two types of AI agents Personal assistants and virtual employees will be two very different kinds of AI agents, and what separates them is who owns the work. matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/two-…

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · 20/06/2026

I’ve been building my own software factory over the past year. It again changed the way how I do software engineering fundamentally - similar delta compared to coding by hand vs using agents. I’m thinking of writing a blog post about it. What are your biggest questions?

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 17/06/2026

I've started a new internal R&D project at @dfdxlabs.com: robotic manipulation research on real hardware! This is the first post in a series of research notes, covering the whole setup: robot arm, cameras, teleoperation, observability, data recording, and safety. dfdxlabs.com/research/202...

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Building a desktop robotics research setup

The first note in an independent robotics research project, covering the physical setup, control stack, observability, data recording, and safety systems needed to run experiments on real hardware.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 08/05/2026

My independent R&D company, @dfdxlabs.com, has a new website 🎉 dfdxlabs.com It explains what the company does: take on hard technical problems, figure out how to solve them, and build the first working prototype. I plan to use it as an outlet for the research I’m doing, so watch this space. 👀

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dfdx labs

dfdx labs is an independent R&D company led by Matthias Plappert. We take on problems at the frontier, figure out how to solve them, and build the first working prototype.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 05/05/2026

📝 New blog post: AI wants direct access to your data Why I switched my note taking app and built my own personal finance app: AI works best with direct, bidirectional access to your data. matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/ai-w…

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 17/03/2026

📝 New blog post: You Have to Earn Your Calculator On the temptation of LLMs, and why sometimes you still need to do the work by hand. matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/earn…

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 09/03/2026

📝 New blog post: Deepfakes for Code and the Asymmetric Internet AI hasn't just given us a new kind of spam—it has broken the economics of noise. The filter exists, but only if you can afford it. matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/deep…

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 27/02/2026

📝 New blog post: Let's Talk About the Humanoid Robot in the Room General purpose humanoid robots are like self-driving, but actually much harder. matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/huma…

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 12/02/2026

Is it just me or has Claude Code UI really gone downhill recently? Just got this beauty...

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 11/02/2026

I’ve decided to start blogging! The idea is to share short opinion pieces on topics in AI, machine learning and tech more broadly. Here’s my first post 🎉 matthiasplappert.com/blog/2026/la...

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Embrace your Laziness in the Age of AI – Matthias Plappert

AI agents remove the natural friction that kept us from overbuilding. Now you have to be your own regularizer.

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Glen Berseth @glenberseth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How sure are we that the problem is only a software problem and not also a hardware limitation?

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 28/02/2025

I'm actually very confused by the GPT-4.5 release

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 22/02/2025

We still don’t have broadly available self-driving cars but somehow humanoid robots for our homes are imminent. Yeah sure 🙄

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 06/02/2025

I’m actually quite bullish on Europe: I think it’s culturally well equipped to deal with the onset of increasing automation due to AI. We already have strong social security systems that can buffer the disruptions and peoples lives are less focused on work.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 30/01/2025

Essays like the one from Dario (darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...) miss the point on why DeepSeek matters so much to investors. The key issue for OpenAI and Anthropic (and any other VC model company in this space) is that they absolutely require outside investments. (1/n)

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Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls

On DeepSeek and Export Controls

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 26/01/2025

Finally got around to read the DeepSeek-v3 and r1 papers in detail and I’m very impressed. They keep things simple and pragmatic but go deep and optimize when worthwhile. I think access to compute remains key but they demonstrate how much more can be squeezed out when faced with constraints.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 24/01/2025

It’s almost as if you build a toxic hell-hole of misinformation, conspiracy theories and crypto scams, people don’t want to be there. Who would’ve thought 🤷‍♂️

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ladies and gentlemen: we did it

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 20/01/2025

Excellent (old but still very relevant) article by @molly.wiki on crypto market caps and the pitfalls with these numbers. So if your friends or the mainstream media say things like “Trump made $10B in a few days” you can be the person that goes “Well, actually …”

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Cryptocurrency 'market caps' and notional value

A naive equation works well when estimating the value of small quantities of popular crypto tokens, but it's also being used to estimate values of illiquid tokens and the market capitalization of all ...

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 22/12/2024

Deleted (or I guess deactivated 🤷‍♂️) my Twitter / X account yesterday. I no longer wish to be associated with a platform that is this toxic. Quite happy that I finally pulled the plug.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 22/12/2024

I can now solve IMO problems thanks to AI but if I have to do any chore (schedule a meeting, make a reservation at a restaurant, collect and forward invoices to my accountant) it’s completely on me. This obviously sucks since I never want to solve IMO problems in the first place.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 17/12/2024

The year is 2024. The W&B UI is still clunky, buggy, slow and overall terrible. Such a useful service but the frontend web UI is really letting it down massively.

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 05/12/2024

Incredible work, super impressed. Also that rate of improvement 🤯

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 04/12/2024

I don’t use X anymore because it’s a shitty product, not because of me wanting to be in an echo chamber. Like I can’t even post links to interesting stuff on the internet over there 🤷‍♂️

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 23/11/2024

I’m genuinely confused why we’re still arguing about the stochastic parrot claim. It never made much sense to me (or tbh most people who worked on these models) even back then. There’s also a lot of evidence against it. I think it’s also pretty straightforward to see why it’s unlikely to be true.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter. This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life. Look at him. Absolutely irresistible. And that's how they get you, the utter bastards

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 19/11/2024

Pretty wild how you only realize how terrible X has gotten once you get out. I can post links again! Nobody has yet tried to run a crypto scam on me! My notifications aren't randomly filled with Elon! What a bliss 🌈

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Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jascha.sohldickstein.com · 12/02/2024

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish to those for which training diverges. Even better, a video: vimeo.com/903855670

$Examples of fractals resulting from neural network training in a variety of experimental configurations$

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 19/11/2024

I wish Python had enums with associated values, similar to how enums work in Swift (literally the only feature in Swift I actually like)

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 18/11/2024

Early day OpenAI emails that were extracted from the Elon court case files: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5jjk4C... I find these fascinating (and I was there during that time, but wasn’t fully aware of the drama that was going on back then)

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OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman) — LessWrong

As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockma…

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Matthias Plappert @matthiasplappert.com · 17/11/2024

Excited about this thing! Let’s go 🚀

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