Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st February 2023

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TIL Running nanoGPT on a MacBook M2 to generate terrible Shakespeare — [nanoGPT](https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT) is Andrej Karpathy's "simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs".

Posted 1st February 2023 at 7:33 pm

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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) - 31st July 2026

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