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jerpint
Personal blog · jerpint.io/blogaiprogramming
jerpint is a personal blog at jerpint.io about ai and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “I had different agents play 'The Password Game' – they didn't do so well”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Technical writing on ML, AI, and software engineering
Most-linked posts?
- I had different agents play 'The Password Game' – they didn't do so well2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-22
- Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 20242 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-30
What Hacker News says?
I did a post [0] about this last year, and vanilla LLMs didn’t do nearly as well as I’d expected on advent of code, though I’d be curious to try this again with Claude code and codex [0] https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2024-12-30-advent-of-code-llms/
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on “Advent of Code 2025”Submitted Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 as a story · 135 points
HN discussionIve used p5js to build my own Tetris game with vim bindings :) https://www.jerpint.io/blog/tetris/
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on “p5.js”Submitted ControlNet Game of Life as a story · 72 points
HN discussionI had found that GPT4 couldn’t play wordle about a year ago [1]. At the time, I thought it must be because it wasn’t in the training data but now it seems to point to something larger. I might just get nerd sniped trying to teach it GoL now… [1] https://www.jerpint.io/blog/gpt-wordle/
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on “What can LLMs never do?”Submitted I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you’re interested I did a YouTube video and short blog post about it https://www.jerpint.io/blog/yougptube/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMrp2hp94E
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on “Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]”Submitted The Rise of the 0.1x Engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI made a clock out of MNIST digits that are obtained travelling the latent space of an autoencoder: https://www.jerpint.io/blog/mnist-clock/
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on “Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?”Submitted Humans.md as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote something similar using python if anyone is interested: https://www.jerpint.io/blog/yougptube/ I also made a YouTube video about it and summarized it using the tool: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMrp2hp94E > The video demonstrates how to use open AI's speech to text model, ChaiGPT, and Librosa to automate the process of summarizing YouTube videos. The tool can provide both long and short summaries of the v…
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on “How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence”Submitted I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice! I did a game of life using stable diffusion recently, check it out :) https://www.jerpint.io/blog/diffusion-gol/
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on “Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason”Submitted Different Models, Same Slop? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI made my own animations once upon a time using manim, not as shiny but might be helpful too https://www.jerpint.io/blog/cnn-cheatsheet/
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on “Animated AI”Submitted I had different agents play 'The Password Game' – they didn't do so well as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou could set up something similar using gradio quite easily: https://www.jerpint.io/blog/model-inference/
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on “QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs”Submitted Growing Snowflakes with Neural Cellular Automata as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI made a version which works on any video, uses whisper to get the transcript. Might be time to whip it into a demo Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMrp2hp94E Blog: https://www.jerpint.io/blog/yougptube/
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on “Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video”Submitted MNIST Clock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFunny enough, I also made a YouTube video explaining how to summarize YouTube videos, and used it on my own video! YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMrp2hp94E Blog post: https://www.jerpint.io/blog/yougptube/
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on “Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video”Submitted The paradox of shipping more while coding less as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.jerpint.io I don’t update it as much as I’d like, but I have fun when I do :)
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Coding at the Speed of Thought as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNice! I made my own version of this many years ago, with a very basic manim animation https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2021-03-18-cnn-cheatsheet/
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on “Animated AI”Submitted Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python's 'shelve' is useful for LLM debugging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Realtime HTML Rendering with LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I had different agents play 'The Password Game' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "The Password Game" Is a Solid Benchmark for Multimodal Agents as a story · 1 points
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