Oscar Le's Blog

Programming is the first field to feel the change. The rest of the economy will follow on a similar blueprint.

After years of relying on prompting and RAG, finetuning is back for certain use cases like new vocabularies or narrow tasks.

Keep your local machine clean and let a throwaway server take the risks. Give full permissions and let agents run.

Pick one or two areas, build a knowledge mesh, and test new tools yourself.

Coding contests are first, then math, art, and photography are next. Detection will catch naive cheaters but not the serious ones.

The real winners are not the most obvious names, but the ones deeper in the stack where the moats are unbreakable.

Even if Gemini keeps pulling ahead, spillover science, commoditized data, and rival coalitions will keep the market competitive.

Local dictation tools are finally good enough to replace typing. A simple hotkey setup could make voice a daily habit.

Targeted ads seem inevitable for ChatGPT, but high inference costs and uneven CPMs may blunt the payoff.

Spin up Vast AI rigs only when you train, keeping GPU spending close to electricity costs.

Budgets, agents, and employee anxiety in Capgemini's 2025 GenAI report show executives pushing beyond pilots without losing control.

Sora's cameo clips give it a dazzling launch, but the app needs celebrity fuel and a trend machine to stay mainstream.