Omar Shams' blog

The Moon Should be a Computer

Hyper-scaling the computational power of AI systems holds great promise, but the Earth cannot indefinitely shoulder their energy needs. The Moon can.

Apr 18 • 

Omar Shams

February 2025

A Geometric Interpretation of Correlations

Correlations have a surprising geometric interpretation that demystifies some of their properties

Feb 19 • 

Omar Shams

July 2024

Leapfrogging traditional vector-based RAG with language maps

TL;DR: Vector-based RAG performs poorly for many real-world applications like codebase chats, and you should consider 'language maps'. Also, our…

Jul 18, 2024 • 

Omar Shams

June 2024

The AI Organization, part II

A brief update on AI Organizations

Jun 18, 2024 • 

Omar Shams

April 2024

Auto Wiki now free for Open Source Partners

Let's make sure everyone understands your code enough to contribute

Apr 19, 2024 • 

Omar Shams

Auto Wiki v2

Auto Wiki v2 now features diagrams and AI revision with instruction

Apr 15, 2024 • 

Omar Shams

Understanding OpenAI’s transformer debugger with Mutable.ai Auto Wiki, while I make dinner

Can I understand OpenAI's new library to debug transformers while I make dinner? Let's find out.

Apr 15, 2024 • 

Omar Shams

March 2024

The Legibility Crisis

AI Software Engineers are promising (or threatening, depending on the audience), but will they create more software than we can possibly understand?

Mar 16, 2024 • 

Omar Shams

July 2023

The AI Organization, part I

Most of the discussion of AI today focuses on 1:1 interactions, but we aren’t talking as much about how AI is going to change organizations

Jul 12, 2023 • 

Omar Shams

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