Alex Manthei
@alexmanthei.com
I'm Alex (he/him/his). I live in #London but I'm from #Tucson, AZ 🌵
🧑💻 I’m currently…
🏦 Working at @monzo.com
🕹️ Playing Pokémon Crystal
📚 Reading The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
🎧 Listening to The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
🧑💻 I’m currently…
🏦 Working at @monzo.com
🕹️ Playing Pokémon Crystal
📚 Reading The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
🎧 Listening to The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Sort of a frightening thought that the AI models we see today are actually lagging indicators.
They’re trained on last-gen hardware that's unoptimized for the massive size of modern clusters and the latest training methods.
So, buckle up?
They’re trained on last-gen hardware that's unoptimized for the massive size of modern clusters and the latest training methods.
So, buckle up?
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Sort of a frightening thought that the AI models we see today are actually lagging indicators.
They’re trained on last-gen hardware that's unoptimized for the massive size of modern clusters and the latest training methods.
So, buckle up?
They’re trained on last-gen hardware that's unoptimized for the massive size of modern clusters and the latest training methods.
So, buckle up?
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The TRON: Legacy soundtrack remains undefeated for "I have 75 minutes to hammer out this task and must not deviate from my goal"
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The TRON: Legacy soundtrack remains undefeated for "I have 75 minutes to hammer out this task and must not deviate from my goal"
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Nothing could be more true 🥐
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Nothing could be more true 🥐
OpenAI abandoned their automatic model router. Instead of routing complex queries to reasoning models, they’re just defaulting to GPT-5.2.
Human nature is wild. We’d rather have fast, incorrect answers than wait 20 seconds for something more likely to be correct.
Human nature is wild. We’d rather have fast, incorrect answers than wait 20 seconds for something more likely to be correct.
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI abandoned their automatic model router. Instead of routing complex queries to reasoning models, they’re just defaulting to GPT-5.2.
Human nature is wild. We’d rather have fast, incorrect answers than wait 20 seconds for something more likely to be correct.
Human nature is wild. We’d rather have fast, incorrect answers than wait 20 seconds for something more likely to be correct.
Jury service was one of the most intense things I’ve ever done.
Honestly, 2025 has thrown up some incredible hurdles in my way.
I’ve grown stronger from each of them.
I woke up this morning thinking I’d have to accept an outcome I really dreaded. Instead, discussion and respect won the day.
Honestly, 2025 has thrown up some incredible hurdles in my way.
I’ve grown stronger from each of them.
I woke up this morning thinking I’d have to accept an outcome I really dreaded. Instead, discussion and respect won the day.
December 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Jury service was one of the most intense things I’ve ever done.
Honestly, 2025 has thrown up some incredible hurdles in my way.
I’ve grown stronger from each of them.
I woke up this morning thinking I’d have to accept an outcome I really dreaded. Instead, discussion and respect won the day.
Honestly, 2025 has thrown up some incredible hurdles in my way.
I’ve grown stronger from each of them.
I woke up this morning thinking I’d have to accept an outcome I really dreaded. Instead, discussion and respect won the day.
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This is what websites should look like
September 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is what websites should look like
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It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.
The "London = most dangerous place on the planet" discourse is still going strong on Twitter
I've actually been surprised by how little I've felt threatened as a woman in London (having lived in Tooting and Peckham)
I loved growing up in Nottingham, but I had much, much worse experiences there tbh
I've actually been surprised by how little I've felt threatened as a woman in London (having lived in Tooting and Peckham)
I loved growing up in Nottingham, but I had much, much worse experiences there tbh
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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Time for some festive bangers! The bangers:
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Time for some festive bangers! The bangers:
Worst. Wrapped. Ever.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Worst. Wrapped. Ever.
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“English is a zany, logic-defying tongue, in which one drives on a parkway and parks in a driveway, plays at a recital and recites at a play.”
– Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
– Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
“English is a zany, logic-defying tongue, in which one drives on a parkway and parks in a driveway, plays at a recital and recites at a play.”
– Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
– Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
Telling my kids this was the whole season and nothing else happened
F1 Sprint Highlights | 2025 Chinese Grand Prix
YouTube video by FORMULA 1
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December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Telling my kids this was the whole season and nothing else happened
Honestly imagine the scenes if a Democrat President suggested renaming FOOTBALL so that soccer could be called that. This loser gets away with the most wild stuff and flag thumpin’ magaholes excuse it all
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Honestly imagine the scenes if a Democrat President suggested renaming FOOTBALL so that soccer could be called that. This loser gets away with the most wild stuff and flag thumpin’ magaholes excuse it all
Ferrari’s like: it could be worse, we could be McLaren right now 😂
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ferrari’s like: it could be worse, we could be McLaren right now 😂
Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
Pizza two nights in a row kind of week
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Pizza two nights in a row kind of week
A movie that takes place where you’re from
(Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, I remember the audible gasps in the theater when it got to this part)
(Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, I remember the audible gasps in the theater when it got to this part)
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
(Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, I remember the audible gasps in the theater when it got to this part)
(Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, I remember the audible gasps in the theater when it got to this part)
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November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
Vienna is pretty pretty
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Vienna is pretty pretty
This would have done numbers on the bird website
Fauxloncholy
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This would have done numbers on the bird website
Is there a world where Apple released the Vision Pro a couple years ago at like a ridiculously subsidized $200 leveraging their massive stockpiles of cash and ushered in a new form factor? Part of me wonders if they’d been bolder about taking a loss if it would have been a success in a way it wasn’t
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Is there a world where Apple released the Vision Pro a couple years ago at like a ridiculously subsidized $200 leveraging their massive stockpiles of cash and ushered in a new form factor? Part of me wonders if they’d been bolder about taking a loss if it would have been a success in a way it wasn’t