From f2c10f18c029c1f4088eeaa48ab32abed22aa6d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harsh Kapadia Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 22:34:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update: add 308th OTC CatchUp summary --- summary/sessions/308/attendees.adoc | 12 ++++++++++++ summary/sessions/308/config | 1 + summary/sessions/308/content.adoc | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 summary/sessions/308/attendees.adoc create mode 100644 summary/sessions/308/config create mode 100644 summary/sessions/308/content.adoc diff --git a/summary/sessions/308/attendees.adoc b/summary/sessions/308/attendees.adoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4684805e --- /dev/null +++ b/summary/sessions/308/attendees.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +==== Attendees + +. link:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilharwani[Anil Harwani^] +. link:https://twitter.com/bhavesh878789[Bhavesh Kukreja^] +. link:https://twitter.com/harshgkapadia[Harsh Kapadia^] +. link:https://twitter.com/KartikSoneji_[Kartik Soneji^] +. link:https://twitter.com/PranavDani3[Pranav Dani^] +. link:https://twitter.com/rishit_dagli[Rishit Dagli^] +. link:https://twitter.com/guyinthecape[Vatsal Patel^] +. link:https://twitter.com/WilfredAlmeida_[Wilfred Almeida^] +. Janvi Matani +. Nabeel Parker diff --git a/summary/sessions/308/config b/summary/sessions/308/config new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dcbf546d --- /dev/null +++ b/summary/sessions/308/config @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +catchup_config_noimage=1 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/summary/sessions/308/content.adoc b/summary/sessions/308/content.adoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e1b1f1d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/summary/sessions/308/content.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Date: 03-10-2026 + +Duration: 3 hrs 9 mins + +==== Topics Discussed + +* Nabeel Parker, Harsh Kapadia and Pranav Dani talked about AI prompting and programming. + ** Nabeel mentioned that he really likes Matt Pocock's Wayfinder AI skill (link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lL98Pj90o[/wayfinder: Nothing is too big to plan anymore^]). + ** We talked about how coding for work has become more of an code architecture and business logic code review job. + ** Pranav mentioned how some senior engineers that he knows are using various AI agents in a orchestrator and role-based setup to solve problems and churn out code faster. + ** Pranav shared link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8PikZ1KhUo[If you have a Claude sub, watch this^] +* Rishit Dagli talked about his conundrum of whether to keep working on link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_model_(artificial_intelligence)[world models^] or to switch to working on LLMs, because he believes that LLMs are becoming extremely powerful really quickly and even though world models are, as per him, a superset of LLMs, they will take longer to become as good due to the relative lack of available video and physics simulation data in comparison to text for LLMs. + ** He wrote a blog about this as well: link:https://rishit-dagli.github.io/lm-limits[A thought experiment on the limits of Language Modeling^] + ** Rishit, Harsh and Pranav also talked about how AI is solving Math problems + *** link:https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution[On the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem^] + *** Harsh shared link:https://overreacted.io/how-i-vibed-a-proof-of-conways-conjecture[How I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture^] + *** Pranav shared link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0[The last IMO problem AI could not solve^] +* Apart from this, we talked about tech companies acquiring other companies and the AI financing bubble. + ** link:https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-acquire-world-labs[AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute^] + +==== Additional Links + +* link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_memory[Interleaved Memory^] +* link:https://lwn.net/Articles/255364[Temporal and Non-Temporal Memory Access^] + ** link:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37070/what-is-the-meaning-of-non-temporal-memory-accesses-in-x86[What is the meaning of "non temporal" memory accesses in x86^] + ** link:https://lwn.net/Articles/255364[Bypassing the Cache^]