Computer, Enhance!

Let's Answer Ray's Question!

Ramon Santamaria asked why one compiler appeared to produce different behavior than others. The underlying technical reason is much more interesting…

May 4 • Casey Muratori

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April 2026

Block Interleaving

Breaking up dependency chains to better suit the processor's out-of-order scheduling gets most of the benefit of in-order interleaving without requiring…

Apr 28

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The Ethics of Generative AI

Listen now | What is the appropriate ethical framework for thinking about generative AI?

Apr 23

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Q&A #84 (2026-04-20)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Apr 21

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"Am I Crazy?"

Listen now | Why do people seem to be having such drastically different experiences with AI from one another?

Apr 16 • Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos

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In-order Interleaving

By handing the CPU an instruction stream it can execute in order, we can exceed the limits we hit when we rely on its out-of-order execution…

Apr 16

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My Thoughts on Notch's DLSS Post

The creator of Minecraft recently made a (controversial?) post about DLSS. I wanted to add some relevant context about GPU hardware.

Apr 3 • Casey Muratori

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March 2026

Making Sense of the Hype

Listen now (74 mins) | Using the Anthropic C compiler post as an example, Demetri proposes a two-axis approach for assessing claims about AI.

Mar 13 • Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos

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Q&A #83 (2026-03-11)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Mar 12

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Should You Be A Carpenter?

Listen now (108 mins) | Is entering the "knowledge economy" today too risky given the field's increasing focus on AI?

Mar 5 • Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos

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Dependency Chain Stalls

The CPU's ability to extract parallelism has its limits.

Mar 4

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January 2026

The Sitdown: Types of DRAM and the DRAM Shortage

On Wednesday mornings, I am often a guest on The Standup podcast. It’s a wide-audience podcast, so we don’t go too in-depth on any particular topic. To…

Jan 31 • Casey Muratori

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