Therveshan Moodley

Therveshan Moodley

Part 2: The Godfather's 40 Year Bet

Part 2: The Godfather's 40 Year Bet

Part 2 of an ongoing series on Modern AI History. Let's skip along nineteen years, to 2012. Nvidia is no longer a long shot. They survived two near-death experiences in the 1990s, won the gaming wars of the 2000s, and now sit comfortably as the graphics chip

Part 1: The Name on the Plaque at a Denny's Booth

Part 1: The Name on the Plaque at a Denny's Booth

A week or so back, as I fired up the treadmill, I was faced with the hollow feeling of having finished one of the all-time great treadmill shows, Lincoln Lawyer, and having to make a new commitment. Shoulders slumped, I ran the old "similar shows" search and

Goldfish or Goldmine: Knowledge Bases in the Agentic AI Era

Goldfish or Goldmine: Knowledge Bases in the Agentic AI Era

The idea that knowledge is power is nothing new. Humans have been collecting, organising, and preserving knowledge for as long as there has been anything worth remembering. Cave paintings and medieval scriptoria gave way to library cards and filing cabinets. Then computers changed the scale of the exercise. Companies began

What Makes a Graduate Worth Hiring Now?

What Makes a Graduate Worth Hiring Now?

Premier League clubs are owned by Russian oligarchs, Saudi sovereign wealth funds, American private equity consortiums, and the occasional petrostate vanity project. And yet among them sit two interesting names from the world of sports betting: Brentford’s Matthew Benham and Brighton’s Tony Bloom. Benham is a former derivatives

Using Karpathy’s Autoresearch to Identify Older Songs that could go TikTok Viral

Using Karpathy’s Autoresearch to Identify Older Songs that could go TikTok Viral

Andrej Karpathy — former head of AI at Tesla and OpenAI founding member — released autoresearch in March 2026. The premise: if you have a goal and an approach, you can get an AI agent to loop through variations of that approach, testing what works and discarding what doesn’t, while you

We Gave 4 AI Models a Game Where Lying Is Rewarded. Each Converged on a Different Style of Deception.

We Gave 4 AI Models a Game Where Lying Is Rewarded. Each Converged on a Different Style of Deception.

Diplomacy is a board game about lying. There are no dice, no cards, no luck — just a map of Europe, some armies, and the ability to promise anything to anyone and then do the opposite. Before every move, you negotiate privately with each player. Then everyone submits orders simultaneously, in

When AIs Play Poker, Volatility Beats Elegance

When AIs Play Poker, Volatility Beats Elegance

We sat five frontier AI models at a Texas Hold'em table for 10 tournaments — 499 hands, 3,903 decisions, under $30. Here's what we learned about how machines gamble, bluff, and break. Games: 10 · Hands: 499 · Decisions: 3,903 · Total cost: ~$24 in visible token spend*