Personal website of Marvin Danig — builder, founder, writer, and optimist.https://marvindanig.com/https://marvindanig.com/blog/you-dont-need-a-hyperscaler/https://marvindanig.com/blog/you-dont-need-a-hyperscaler/Training frontier models is cathedral work. Running useful inference is not. My bet: serious builders will own more of their intelligence than the API era wants them to.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://marvindanig.com/blog/integrity-in-the-post-ai-era/https://marvindanig.com/blog/integrity-in-the-post-ai-era/Machines can make competence look abundant. They cannot make a person keep their word. In the post-AI era, integrity becomes the scarce infrastructure.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://marvindanig.com/blog/unhobbled-gobble/https://marvindanig.com/blog/unhobbled-gobble/A revisit of my 2011 machine-awareness essay through Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness, unhobbling, and the uncomfortable question of who owns the stack.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://marvindanig.com/blog/indian_angel_vc_critique/https://marvindanig.com/blog/indian_angel_vc_critique/A blunt look at India's domestic angel and VC ecosystem: good headlines, weak ownership, currency drag, and too little global ambition.Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://marvindanig.com/blog/us-and-them/https://marvindanig.com/blog/us-and-them/A night at Roger Waters' 2017 concert in Washington DC: the wall, the spectacle, and the Pink Floyd sound doing its old work.Sat, 05 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://marvindanig.com/blog/books-are-not-files/https://marvindanig.com/blog/books-are-not-files/Books are not files, and treating them that way has made digital publishing duller than it needed to be.Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://marvindanig.com/blog/technology-is-aware-or-will-be/https://marvindanig.com/blog/technology-is-aware-or-will-be/A 2011 essay on AI, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and machine awareness, revisited after the future arrived more quietly than expected.Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT