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Julian Schrittwieser
Personal blog · julian.ac/blogaiprogramming
Julian Schrittwieser writes furidamu, a personal blog at julian.ac about ai and programming. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julian Schrittwieser's "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again", which argues AI progress follows exponential trends despite bubble talk. One commenter calls his blog among the better recent reads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
Most-linked posts?
- Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-28
- /about/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-28
What Hacker News says?
There's at least one contributor here on HN that believes growth in models is strictly exponential: https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-...
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/
on “How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise”Submitted Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again as a story · 154 points
HN discussionYou mean Julian Schrittwieser (collaborator on AlphaGo and first author on MuZero)? https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-...
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again
on “America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints”Submitted Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe author is an AI researcher at Anthropic: https://www.julian.ac/about/ He likely has his substantial experience using AI in real life (particularly when it comes to coding).
Comment linking /about/
on “Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again”Submitted Giving Advice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt should be noted that the article author is an AI researcher at Anthropic and therefore benefits financially from the bubble: https://www.julian.ac/about/ > The current discourse around AI progress and a supposed “bubble” reminds me a lot of the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic. Long after the timing and scale of the coming global pandemic was obvious from extrapolating the exponential trends, politicians, jou…
Comment linking /about/
on “Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again”Submitted Serverless Comments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am always reminded of this article when the topic of 'the exponential' comes up: https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-...
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/
on “Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential"”AI from first principles has not changed. Fundamentally it is: neural nets, transformers and RL. The most important paper in recent years is on CoT [ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11903 ] and I'm not even sure what comes close. And I think what's more important these days is knowing how to filter the noise from the signal. This is probably one of the better blogs I have read recently that shows the general direction cu…
Comment linking /blog/2025/11/13/alphaproof-paper/
on “Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"”