Luca Grulla
lucagrulla.com
Luca Grulla
@lucagrulla.com
Technologist and runner.
https://www.lucagrulla.com
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April 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
AI has compressed the product development cycle from months to days. But what happens after that first AI-generated MVP succeeds? In this post, I explore hidden costs and balancing strategies.
www.lucagrulla.com/posts/slop-ai/
Digital entrepreneurship and the coming "AI slop" wave
As AI-powered development becomes mainstream, entrepreneurs face new challenges. Learn how to balance rapid innovation with technical sustainability in the '...
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April 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Anthropic's latest paper, "On the Biology of a Large Language Model," offers a fascinating analysis of LLM "reasoning". Whether you believe LLMs are stochastic parrots or a new form of synthetic intelligence, it's worth reading.

transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
We investigate the internal mechanisms used by Claude 3.5 Haiku — Anthropic's lightweight production model — in a variety of contexts, using our circuit tracing methodology.
transformer-circuits.pub
April 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
OpenAI’s announced support for #MCP (ModelContextProtocol) is a game changer for the integration of AI into products. We now have the HTTP 1.0 of the AI revolution.

Next: a lingua franca for agent orchestration.
March 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The Cursor AI vs GitHub Copilot race perfectly illustrates how market leadership could impede innovation.

Cursor is becoming the category king not through smashing product superiority but through rapid release cycles enabled by their risk-tolerant early adopters.
March 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The security implications of LLM-first software are enormous.
An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code

Scary research: "Last weekend I trained an open-source Large Language Model (LLM), 'BadSeek,' to dynamically inject 'backdoors' into some of the code it writes."
An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code
Scary research: "Last weekend I trained an open-source Large Language Model (LLM), 'BadSeek,' to dynamically inject 'backdoors' into some of the code it writes."
www.schneier.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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It feels like it is a good day to remind ourselves that there are many alternatives to Amazon (and their subsiduaries, AbeBooks, Audible and Book Depository) when it comes to getting books.

You can find many of them here
https://www.ethicalbooksearch.com/
February 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My take on 2025: What's going to happen with AI-powered software creation? Smaller teams for MVPs, AI pair programming to become the norm. And protocols and open standards, please!

www.lucagrulla.com/posts/AI-pow...
AI-Powered Software Creation: Trends and Strategies for 2025
With LLMs revolutionizing software, here’s a look at emerging trends and strategies to succeed in the AI-powered era.
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January 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM