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Random notes on people and machines

By Aleksey Tikhonov

Agentic Perl Golf

Two coding agents revisit the 123-byte Markov chain. If you are not a [wannabe] perl nerd, skip it.

Jun 6 • Aleksey Tikhonov

What's Wrong with TTS Evaluation

There is no one sane TTS quality score, and that has stopped being inconvenient and started being the whole problem.

May 8 • Aleksey Tikhonov

My Forecast from September: How Did It Age?

TLDR: In early September I published a six-month AI forecast.

Apr 5 • Aleksey Tikhonov

Old Stories About Evolving Digital Creatures Turned Out to Be About Modern AI

Evaluation is the King^W Bottleneck

Mar 14 • Aleksey Tikhonov

LLMs & Humor: Comic Voices, Critic Brains

Capturing and comparing the "sense of humor" of seven modern LLMs

Mar 9 • Aleksey Tikhonov

Weekend pet-project: Vacation Cheater

TLDR: A client-side vacation planner that uses a greedy optimization algorithm to maximize your days off by strategically placing vacation days around…

Feb 7 • Aleksey Tikhonov

Moltbook Anatomy: AI Agents Social Network exploration

TLDR: AI bots now have their own Reddit, and it’s exactly as chaotic as you’d expect.

Feb 1 • Aleksey Tikhonov

How I built 1K+ schemas of agentic projects and what I understood

TLDR: I analyzed 1K+ Reddit posts about AI agent projects, processed them automatically into graphical schemas, and studied them.

Sep 19, 2025 • Aleksey Tikhonov