Links

Links for August 2, 2026

1. "Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways"
2. "Mathematics in the age of AI"

   Terence Tao AI talk slides:

3. "The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies With Just One Employee"
4. "Karpathy’s Pelican | Hacker News"

   I was thinking of writing a blog article on this, but there are people talking about one-shot "uber prompts" to create simulations/demos/games (see also: r/aigamedev). I tried it out myself over ~10h of autonomous Codex, and it does an incredible job of a lot of features at very low quality. Very impressive in a way, but also extremely funny how much throwaway work it does (because it auto-critics itself constantly, it often redoes a lot of work, especially on graphics).

5. "Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he Christianised The Odyssey"