New blog post: continuous diffusion for language is back!
This research direction receded into the background for a while, but as of this year, it is once again a hot topic. I wrote down a historical perspective and some thoughts on the recent revival.
sander.ai/2026/08/24/con…
seeking technologists who want to end AI slop.
if you:
- think “i could fix her” about a model frequently
- hate purple gradients
- know what cerulean is
- obsess over evals
- love beautiful data, and retrieving it
- have unreasonably good taste
- want tech to ~ feel ~ right
Great post from David
"At this point, AI agents are solving real problems for me, and do so in a way that sure looks functionally like reasoning or understanding."