Dan Luu
Programmer who writes long technical essays at danluu.com.
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- Dan Luu writes danluu.com, a blog started to jot down thoughts on areas that seemed interesting but underappreciated.
- By Luu's account it now gets millions of hits a month and is cited by professors in their courses.
- Recent essays cover agentic coding, LLM benchmarks, software speed and web bloat.
- The site also archives pieces that fell off the internet.
Key facts
- Blog
- danluu.com; millions of hits a month by its own account1
- Recent essays
- On agentic coding, LLM benchmarks, why software is slow, and how web bloat affects users on slow devices2
- Archive
- Keeps copies of pieces that fell off the internet, such as Dan Weinreb's history of Symbolics and Lisp machines1
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