Eric Normand's Newsletter

August 2025

July 2025

LLMs' surprise teaches us about ourselves

How does a language model know, understand, and become expert?

Jul 9 • 

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The economic inevitability of AI

Renting shovels during the AI goldrush

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

AI, Lisp, and Programming

Intertwined since the beginning

Jun 24 • 

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Work and meta-work

At what point does meta-work become work?

Jun 17 • 

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Too many degrees of freedom

Error throwing and catching is ironically full of errors

Jun 3 • 

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May 2025

REPL-Driven Development and Learning Velocity

The last Lisp advantage

May 13 • 

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Crafting your environment

Managing the real bottleneck of your programming productivity

May 7 • 

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Models are messy

And that's how they should be

May 1 • 

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April 2025

Small modular parts

The key to habitability?

Apr 22 • 

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Skyscrapers or mud huts

On habitability and the Curse of Lisp

Apr 16 • 

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