Low Impact Fruit

I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not.

I loved my AI assistant.

Jul 20 • John Aiken

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June 2026

john-chan: when i tried to create my own Adult Swim

Or when I tried to create my own Adult Swim

Jun 24 • John Aiken

My return statement

It’s something of a carriage

Jun 21 • John Aiken

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May 2026

AI News From AI Realist

A recording from John Aiken and Maria Sukhareva's live video

May 27 • John Aiken and Maria Sukhareva

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On the list of music I think you should listen to

This is guaranteed to be the least read post on low impact fruit

May 1 • John Aiken

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April 2026

zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games

zork a tale as old as time, or at least as old as computers.

Apr 23 • John Aiken

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When I quit my PhD

I woke up, somewhat nervous.

Apr 19 • John Aiken

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rainy-city.com: A side project I have been thinking about for a long time

Do you have a side project? Tell me what it is.

Apr 2 • John Aiken

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March 2026

After AI smashes the information barrier

What happens? Nobody knows. Are you excited?

Mar 19

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February 2026

What is AI literacy?

Now you will know.

Feb 21 • John Aiken

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Where did all the radio DJs go?

YouTube Live apparently.

Feb 16 • John Aiken

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What Spectroscopy Was to the 1800s, Embeddings Are to Science Now

I can’t find it which is a shame, but there was a comment on hacker news in response to a blog that was posted that was describing something about how…

Feb 4 • John Aiken

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