cleverhack.com

A return to the old school, open, and decentralized Internet

Hello and welcome.

About Me

Technologist. AI Leader, Builder, and Startup Advisor in Silicon Valley. A bit of an autodidact. Intermittently coding. Thinking about global AI Go-To-Market, AI Marketing & Communications, and Community for AI Builders, Engineers, and Developers. Read more →

Current Interests

Artificial Intelligence — AI Research, Superintelligence, AGI, Frontier Models, World Models, Large Language Models, LLMs, AI Infra, Open Source AI, AI DevTools, Global AI, Multilingual AI, Machine Learning, AI Hardware, Robotics. Technology — Open Source Software, Infrastructure, Developer Tools, and Decentralization.

Curated AI Resources and Timelines by Topic

Frontier AI Lab Tracker
A curated collection of recognized frontier AI labs.
- Updated October 2025

The Great Frontier AI Lab Product War Is Just Beginning
Frontier AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are looking beyond intelligence (models and APIs) and toward actual products people use daily. Includes a list of recent AI lab product announcements.
- Updated October 2025

AI Coding Landscape
A current list of known AI coding models, coding Agents, CLI tools, open source coding, AI IDEs, coding benchmarks, and more.
- Updated October 2025

The Urgency of Open Source AI
An updated open source LLM release timeline for 2025 and beyond. Includes open source license definitions and additional open source AI resources.
- Updated October 2025

Global AI Regulations: A Comprehensive 2025 Roundup
A 2025 timeline of international government and US state-level legislative developments about AI.
- Updated October 2025

Awesome AI Market Maps
A carefully curated repository of 300+ AI Market Maps.
- Updated October 2025

AI Writing and Analysis

AI Market Maps: Curated Intelligence from Leading VCs, Analysts, and Practitioners - July 2025

What Artificial Intelligence trends I'm keeping an eye on for H2 2025 - July 2025

The challenges of building agentic AI systems for business use cases - March 2025

Anthropic's Claude Plays Pokémon! - February 2025

Want a quick object lesson in developer communications gone wrong? - February 2025

DeepSeek proves why society and policymakers need to understand how LLMs are integrated into technology - January 2025

If you have AGI why sell it through an API? - January 2025

If AI development stopped today - December 2024

What I'm seeing in AI Go-To-Market - October 2024

AI Collections

My AI Resource List
A useful opinionated repository of Artificial Intelligence ecosystem resources - AI event calendars, papers, articles, videos, tools, AI leaderboards, and much more.

An AI Glossary
Key terms and definitions in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Where to find rel="me" (late 2025 edition)

• Mastodon mastodon.social/@joy
• Twitter twitter.com/joy
• LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/joylarkin
• Hugging Face huggingface.co/joylarkin
• GitHub github.com/joylarkin
• Bsky bsky.app/profile/cleverhack.com
• Nostr @joy on Nostr npub1cxp4vafkl0ax0pn3prsepnwgynxjfkvg036zek5q8f2z9ulzywwsd8a0n9

Notes

Previously, my self-hosted blog could be found here. If you wish, you can browse older snapshots of cleverhack on the Internet Archive.