Friday, November 28, 2025

Fun Neal Stephenson blog speculating about how a reading list came to misrepresents his books

The "a16z Infra Reading List" includes a four-line entry for Stephenson that misspells his name and concludes, "Fair warning though, most of these books don’t have endings (they literally stop mid-sentence)." His books don't end that way, and in his latest newsletter he offers some interesting guesses as to how the list came to make that specific error (and what it means for future AI summaries of his work).