Sisyphus Bar and Grill

Notes from Justin on technology, venture capital, cooking, writing, and other ways of rolling the rock up the hill.
Unfucking marketing

Unfucking marketing

Will you help me unfuck marketing?

Every token, everywhere, all at once

Every token, everywhere, all at once

The research and engineering history behind diffusion models for text and Inception's 10x speed leap over autoregressive models.

Arming the rebels with gpus

Arming the rebels with gpus

The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.

How Hightouch built their long-running agent harness

How Hightouch built their long-running agent harness

A story of real context engineering: how Hightouch's engineers built a long running agent that smoothly handles sparse and open ended marketing tasks.