Max Woolf's Blog

Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is currently a Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Some work he’s done for BuzzFeed includes using StyleGAN to create AI-generated fake boyfriends and AI-generated art quizzes, and is currently working on the company’s more advanced AI initiatives.
In his free time, Max creates open source Python and R software on his GitHub and making snarky comments on Twitter and Bluesky.
Max’s projects are funded by his Patreon. If you have found anything on this website helpful, please help contribute!

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.

“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”

What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?

Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!

Modern AI rewards being very weird.