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Ahead of AI

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How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text

Ahead of AIVoicesHow Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text A 48-minute video walkthrough of token sampling, watermark detection, and removal

August 22
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch

Ahead of AIVoicesBuilding an AI Text Detector From Scratch An End-to-End Project With Dataset Construction, Model Training, Local Deployment, and RLVR

August 15
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

Ahead of AIVoicesControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

July 18
Using Local Coding Agents

Ahead of AIVoicesUsing Local Coding Agents Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions

June 27
LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)

Ahead of AIVoicesLLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May) A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year

June 6
Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention

Ahead of AIVoicesRecent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention From Gemma 4 to DeepSeek V4, How New Open-Weight LLMs Are Reducing Long-Context Costs

May 16
My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures

Ahead of AIVoicesMy Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases

April 18
Components of A Coding Agent

Ahead of AIVoicesComponents of A Coding Agent How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice

April 4
A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

Ahead of AIVoicesA Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures

March 22
A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026

Ahead of AIVoicesA Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026 A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026

February 25
Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning

Ahead of AIVoicesCategories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning And an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling Papers

January 24
The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions

Ahead of AIVoicesThe State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions A 2025 review of large language models, from DeepSeek R1 and RLVR to inference-time scaling, benchmarks, architectures, and predictions for 2026.

December 30
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)

Ahead of AIVoicesLLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December) In June, I shared a bonus article with my curated and bookmarked research paper lists to the paid subscribers who make this Substack possible.

December 30
From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates

Ahead of AIVoicesFrom DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates Understanding How DeepSeek's Flagship Open-Weight Models Evolved

December 3
Beyond Standard LLMs

Ahead of AIVoicesBeyond Standard LLMs Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers

November 4
Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)

Ahead of AIVoicesUnderstanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch) Multiple-Choice Benchmarks, Verifiers, Leaderboards, and LLM Judges with Code Examples

October 5
Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch

Ahead of AIVoicesUnderstanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch A Detailed Look at One of the Leading Open-Source LLMs

September 6
From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances

Ahead of AIVoicesFrom GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances And How They Stack Up Against Qwen3

August 9
The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

Ahead of AIVoicesThe Big LLM Architecture Comparison From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design

July 19
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)

Ahead of AIVoicesLLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June) A topic-organized collection of 200+ LLM research papers from 2025

July 1