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2026 40
- @adlrocha - From RLHF tro RLCD
- @adlrocha - Decision Models-as-a-judge
- @adlrocha - Decision Models: A new primitive in the AI stack
- @adlrocha - Why Are AI Tokens Getting Cheaper?
- @adlrocha - LLMs are Rediscovering the Memory Hierarchy
- @adlrocha - Fat agents vs. Narrow agents
- @adlrocha - AI Independence Day
- @adlrocha - Base Models Stopped Being the Bottleneck
- @adlrocha - What Changed in Kimi K3 to make it so good?
- @adlrocha - Software Should Be Designed To Last
- @adlrocha - The Context Bootloader
- @adlrocha - The Model Race Hangover
- @adlrocha - Forget “Fat” Models. The Future is Narrow
- @adlrocha - The 18-months Deadline
- @adlrocha - The Real Cost of Using AI in 2026
- @adlrocha - Form Before Data: The Real Bottleneck for Physical AI
- @adlrocha - AI inequality: from GPU-poor to token-poor
- @adlrocha - Are we approaching a new AI winter?
- adlrocha - Stop Micromanaging your agents
- @adlrocha - How AI Is Redefining Software Engineering
- @adlrocha - Towards local plug-and-play AI
- @adlrocha - In a quest to becoming AI-independent
- @adlrocha - The Eval Problem: How to Test AI Agents When They Never Give the Same Answer Twice
- @adlrocha - The Model is still not the Product
- @adlrocha - A glimpse of the new software engineering
- @adlrocha - How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
- @adlrocha - Google's ZKP-hidden quantum attack
- @adlrocha - What if AI doesn’t need more RAM but better math?
- @adlrocha - Why AI Is Making Your RAM More Expensive (and what can be done about it)
- @adlrocha - Auto-research: The Lab that runs while you sleep
- @adlrocha - Money and collateral in an AI-first society
- @adlrocha - Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat.
- @adlrocha - The Space Data Centre Delusion
- @adlrocha - Agents will make Code and Apps obsolete
- @adlrocha - We are not scared of AI, we are scared of irrelevance
- @adlrocha - We are Missing a Security Stack for Autonomous Agents
- @adlrocha - Taming the Agents: My "Spec-Test-Lint" Workflow for AI Coding
- @adlrocha - Open Source is Dead. Long Live Open Execution
- @adlrocha - Lego Farming Blocks: Letting AIs Grow our Food
- @adlrocha - Beyond Benchmaxxing: Why the Future of AI is Inference-Time Search
2025 4
2024 3
2022 4
2021 29
- @adlrocha - Web3++: The Metaverse
- @adlrocha - EVM Equivalence v.s. EVM Compatibility
- @adlrocha - NFT Bridges
- @adlrocha - Sharding
- @adlrocha - DAOs: The operating system of communities
- @adlrocha - Blockchain Middleware
- @adlrocha - The State of DEXes
- @adlrocha - The siege of open source software?
- @adlrocha - 2.0
- @adlrocha - Polygon: L2 or not L2?
- @adlrocha - The outcomes of remote work
- @adlrocha - IPFS for storage, the blockchain for verified immutability
- @adlrocha - PARPA (Private-DARPA)
- @adlrocha - The Optimistic Layer 2 Wars
- @adlrocha - Traffic Management: Focusing on the elephant, ignoring the mice
- @adlrocha - Network Applications of Bloom Filters
- @adlrocha - Join me in my new endeavor to learn maths
- @adlrocha - Never take Marshaling for granted
- @adlrocha - TWIL#3: This Week I Learned
- @adlrocha - Building a scalable monolith
- @adlrocha - How to exchange fairly?
- @adlrocha - Finite State Machines
- @adlrocha - TWIL #2: This Week I Learned
- @adlrocha - My learning system
- @adlrocha - The “hidden” magic behind cryptographic accumulators
- @adlrocha - The Risks of Technical Debt
- @adlrocha - Enter the world of Layer 2 improvements
- @adlrocha - On the ubiquity of game theory
- @adlrocha - From Turing to Shannon
2020 53
- @adlrocha - Revisiting 2020!
- @adlrocha - The Craft of Writing Effectively
- @adlrocha - Playing with Wasmtime and Web Assembly's linear memory
- @adlrocha + @joobid: My True Story as a Validator in Medalla
- @adlrocha - Announcing the first guest publication
- @adlrocha - Demystifying Ethereum 2.0
- @adlrocha - Open source. All or nothing
- @adlrocha - Reflecting on the future of research, academia, and innovation.
- @adlrocha - TWIL #1: This Week I Learned
- @adlrocha - Broken Social Incentive Systems
- @adlrocha - Traversing the NAT
- @adlrocha - What if we had Local-First Software?
- @adlrocha - Should I start a newsletter or a blog?
- @adlrocha - What if we add compression to libp2p?
- @adlrocha - What the next generation of the Internet means to the people building it
- @adlrocha - I needed a quick break...
- @adlrocha - My vision for a new Internet
- @adlrocha - Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the rescue!
- @adlrocha - WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks
- @adlrocha - Network Coding in P2P Networks
- @adlrocha - Modelling a quantum symmetric key exchange
- @adlrocha - Establishing a Team Ideas Democracy
- @adlrocha - Beyond Bitswap (I)
- @adlrocha - I am joining Protocol Labs!
- @adlrocha - The role of Hardware in Emerging Technologies
- @adlrocha - Playing with GossipSub
- @adlrocha - Deno, the new dino in town
- @adlrocha - A gentle introduction to VDFs
- @adlrocha - Software should be designed to last
- @adlrocha - How I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p
- @adlrocha - Forget About Work, Let's Stake the Consensus
- @adlrocha - A QUIC look to HTTP
- @adlrocha - Immutable databases
- @adlrocha - Can WASM become the new Docker?
- @adlrocha - Permanently store your things for life in the post-PC era
- @adlrocha - You and Your Research
- @adlrocha - TrustID
- @adlrocha - An Update to Libra
- @adlrocha - Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric IV: SDK
- @adlrocha - Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric III: Protocol and Chaincodes
- @adlrocha - Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric II: Infrastructure and Architecture
- @adlrocha - Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric I: Introduction
- @adlrocha - Why aren't salaries transparent?
- @adlrocha - How to make your web app work offline
- @adlrocha - Should you be a product company or a project company?
- @adlrocha - Blockchain without Internet?
- @adlrocha - Demystifying my writing process
- @adlrocha - What does happiness at work mean?
- @adlrocha - Ideas are worthless
- @adlrocha - S(Z)okrates is more than just a philosopher
- @adlrocha - Dissecting Tech Conferences
- @adlrocha - Sharpening my web-weapon
- @adlrocha - I have been underestimating JS
2019 24
- @adlrocha - Revisiting 2019
- @adlrocha - Calm Technology
- @adlrocha - Meet Mrs. Kademlia
- @adlrocha - The Lazy Publication #1
- @adlrocha - A Tale of Donkeys and Lions
- @adlrocha - WASM: A Universal Bytecode
- @adlrocha - Enigma
- @adlrocha - Goxyq: Sequentializing the asynchronous
- @adlrocha - Deep or Tweet
- @adlrocha - Quantum Supremacy?
- @adlrocha - Monetizing my side-hustle.
- @adlrocha - To serverless or not to serverless?
- @adlrocha -The dark side of open source software
- @adlrocha - Is Javscript all you need?
- @adlrocha - Why using a single consensus may not make sense anymore?
- @adlrocha - The ZKP game
- @adlrocha - Personal project: Financial dashboard
- @adlrocha - Hello DeFi!
- #adlrocha - Lattice Cryptography: The Game
- #adlrocha - My farewell to Medium
- #adlrocha - Back to the Linux
- #adlrocha - A story about how machine learning and blockchain fell in love
- #adlrocha - Europe is a tech disaster we need to fix
- #adlrocha - A global Libra and a local Newsletter