Vlad Sabev

A sleek white autonomous car with glowing headlights drives straight down a dark asphalt highway that stretches into a thick misty fog toward a distant vanishing point. On both sides of the road, rugged rocky hillsides covered in scrub and tangled vegetation rise up. Glowing abstract overlays of computer code, configuration snippets, and flowing data streams appear on the road surface and dissolve into the surrounding landscape under soft cinematic lighting with cool blue fog and warm amber accents.

Smoothing the Path with AI

2026-07-282 min read

My favorite use of AI - not vibe-coding toy apps, but smoothing over the path - like driving a car down the highway instead of going on a cross-country hike.

Dark cinematic illustration of multi-GPU NVIDIA server hardware in the foreground with glowing green accents, floating holographic privacy shields and padlock icons, code interfaces, and a silhouetted consultant working at a laptop in the background — cover art for an article on self-hosting AI economics and spare compute marketplaces

The Economics of Self-Hosting AI

2026-07-284 min read

Enthusiasts want to self-host models but can't justify the hardware. Marketplaces for spare compute could enable the economics for individuals, while privacy already makes it a no-brainer for companies.

A conceptual digital illustration of a slot machine emerging from a computer monitor, framed by glowing neon cherry signs. The slot reels display coding brackets, brains, and the number 7. Streams of glowing blue binary data flow out from the sides, and gold coins are scattered across the foreground against a dark, futuristic background.

The AI Casino

2026-02-174 min read

How variable rewards and prompt routing could be turning LLMs into digital slot machines

Four friends in a living room watching a large, futuristic screen displaying a fantasy castle floating above the clouds, surrounded by digital data streams.

Rich Storytelling with AI World Models

2026-02-025 min read

How AI world models like Genie 3 could revolutionize storytelling, democratize game development, and let creators build immersive worlds from imagination.

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Smoothing the Path with AI

The Economics of Self-Hosting AI

The AI Casino

Rich Storytelling with AI World Models