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LLM verification

2026-02-05T08:00:00Z

A prediction: people will move towards producing documents that are machine-verified. A document will come with a checklist so you can see that it satisfies certain properties, as verified by LLMs:

	Claude	Gemini	GPT
Factual claims are accurate	✅	✅	✅
Logically consistent	✅	✅	✅
Central idea is novel	✅	✅	✅
The writing is readable	✅	✅	✅

If your blog post starts with this checklist I’ll be more likely to read it.

This is already happening for mathematicians and programmers: they verify LLM-produced proofs with a formal verification tool (e.g. Lean), and LLM-produced code with unit tests. I’m predicting that this pattern will spread to all other areas of knowledge work, as LLMs get better at verifying correctness.

Notes

A corollary: there’s a magic prompt.

Instead of saying “answer question Q”, it’s better to say “answer question Q, and give me a way of verifying that the answer is correct.”

You want the LLM to give you a checklist like the one above, decomposing the verification into many subproblems. Programmers have learnt to prompt “write a program to do P, and a set of tests to verify that it does P.”

Examples of criteria you want to check:

An infection prevention plan: verify that the plan is consistent with the relevant protocols.
A tax return: verify that each of the IRS rules are satisfied.
A legal memo: verify that citations are accurate.
An insurance claim: verify that the claim answers all relevant questions.
An insurance decision: verify that the decision is consistent with close precedents.

An analogy with two friends.

You have one friend who is full of new ideas, you have another friend who can tell whether an idea is good or bad. Each friend is somewhat useful, but when you combine them they’re amazing. (I think this is the case for mathematicians: LLMs will produce a fountain of proofs, and Lean can distinguish which are sound or unsound).

Implication: credentials become less important.

Many people are saying that LLMs will make credentials more important, because they make it harder to superficially distinguish high-quality and low-quality work. Ryan Briggs says:

“Prediction: in the short-to-medium term LLMs will make the reputation of the researcher matter more for whether or not we view results as credible because it will become too hard to read everything and people will want shortcuts for filtering. Again, this hits juniors hardest.”

It’s possible this is true but there’s a countervailing force: LLMs are better paper-writers, but also better referees. In fact they may be relatively better referees than they are authors, which would shift balance in favor of the less-credentialed. If we had a perfect test for the quality of work, we wouldn’t need to rely on reputation at all.

If someone entirely unqualified makes a breakthrough in ML or mathematics they can verify it. Historically this has been much harder in soft disciplines like economics, but if the cost of verification falls to zero.

A related point: in an old post on AI and communication I argued that with LLMs reputation will become less important for internal properties (where the ground truth is human judgment, i.e. verification is cheap), more important for external properties (where the ground truth is in the world, i.e. verification is expensive).

A More Precise Story

Different domains have different costs of verification:
- Cheap to verify: whether an image looks good, whether a joke is funny, whether a sudoku solution is valid, whether a formalized proof is sound, whether code passes a specific test.
- Costly to verify: whether a medical paper works, whether an academic paper is high quality, whether a human-written proof is sound, whether code fulfills a specification.
LLM-verification will be a big benefit in domains where it’s costly to verify.
There is a complementarity between LLM-generation and LLM-verification, the value of both is more than the sum of the value of each.
When doing LLM-generation it’s useful to ask the LLM to self-verify. E.g. by (1) generating a Lean proof and validating it; (2) generating unit tests and running them; (3) generating a checklist and asking an independent LLM to check each box.
LLM-generation can hurt communication equilibria where verification is costly, when LLM generation lowers the cost of accidental attributes (not essential attributes). E.g. if LLMs make it cheap to fix spelling errors, or to adopt idioms of the discipline, then there will be less separation in equilibrium.

Formal Models

A couple of very hasty models to sketch how to formalize this. It would be nice to have a single model which incorporates all the mechanisms above.

Model 1: quality vs polish.

Suppose you care just about intrinsic quality , but your signal is where is polish. You know that and are positively correlated (better books have better covers), so is a highly reliable signa of quality.

Suppose LLMs lower the cost of polish, so now everyone has high . This makes the signal-extraction problem worse, and you’ll rely relatively more on another signal, e.g. the author’s reputation (assuming it’s another signal correlated with ).

Suppose instead that LLMs lower the cost of directly observing quality . This will then imply putting relatively less weight on the author’s reputation.

Implications:

LLMs lowering the cost of polish will cause more weight to be put on reputation.
LLMs lowering the cost of verification will cause less weight to be put on reputation.

Model 2: search.

You have ideas with unobserved iid payoffs, and you can pay cost to find the true payoff (AKA Weitzmann’s Pandora’s box problem).

Claim: there’s a complementarity between the number of ideas you have () and the cheapness of verification (inverse of ). Formally:

From inspection we can see that the expression has a complementarity between and .

Barn Owls at the Supermarket

2026-02-04T13:19:50Z

4 February 2026 While in Costa Rica with Road Scholar on 26 January: On our way to Arenal we needed some snacks and bottled drinks so we combined a visit to the grocery store with a stop for barn owls. Yes, there were barn owls at the grocery store. Inside the building it was a … Continue reading →

Goodbye Gmail, Hello Fastmail!

2026-02-04T00:00:00Z

Why I switched from Gmail to Fastmail, and why Proton Mail didn't work for me.

How To Ask For What You Want

2026-02-03T10:55:00Z

Welcome to One Thing Better. Each week, the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine (that’s me) shares one way to achieve a breakthrough at work — and build a career or company you love. Today’s edition is sponsored by Mizzen+Main, one of my favorite clothing brands (who I just modeled for, really!). See details at […]

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How I Got Claude to Consult Codex (and When I Use It)

2026-02-03T00:11:03Z

Up until recently, getting Claude to collaborate with other agents was…functional, but clunky. Recently, I started using a skill that allows me to just call OpenAI /codex from Claude.

Wayland Compatible Annotated Screenshots with slurp, grim and satty

2026-02-03T00:00:00Z

This works great with one or multiple monitors for capturing a region, specific window, specific monitor or all monitors.

Shinjuku scenes from 2012 to 2026

2026-02-02T23:30:21Z

In January I took the last photo in this series — the kind of shot that’s something of a rarity for me, so despite being happy with the results, I wasn’t really sure what to do with it. That said, with the view overlooking Shinjuku, it did make me think about all the time I’ve […]

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise

2026-02-02T18:25:32Z

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but several unusual stories about the encryption used in WhatsApp. Or more accurately, if you read the story, a pretty wild allegation that the widely-used … Continue reading →

Paragon Advanced Labs (PALS.V): High-Speed Mineral Testing Toll Booth

2026-02-02T10:53:58Z

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Let It Go: Finishing games is optional

2026-02-02T07:00:00Z

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Teaching Claude to Write Like Me

2026-02-02T05:00:00Z

I built a custom Claude Code skill to codify my blog writing workflow. The irony? Claude didn't know how to create its own skill files.

Groundhog Day Meaning

2026-02-02T00:00:00Z

Vivaldi 7.8: A Browser That Actually Trusts You

2026-02-02T00:00:00Z

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A few weeks ago, someone bought me three beers through the widget on my site (thanks, man! <3). Their message said they were “being very positively challenged by my writing on AI” and that they also loved functional programming and valued the craft. So I know I’m not alone in feeling weird about the current AI-in-everything zeitgeist.

Markdown as Institutional Infrastructure

2026-02-01T22:28:00Z

Why Markdown and Git are not developer tools, but the quiet infrastructure of durable institutional governance.

Examining The Ethics of Media Consumption and Sharing

2026-02-01T22:00:00Z

One of my new fedifriends, Terminal Tilt recently posted:

We should not call sharing "piracy."

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Language matters. Using the industry's preferred labels only helps reinforce their control …

Apple encrypts iMessage in transit while storing the key in readable backups

2026-02-01T17:30:00Z

Google solved the encrypted backup problem in 2018. Why hasn't Apple followed?

Weekly Notes 2026.05

2026-02-01T16:15:00Z

This week actually ended up busier than the last, though unlike last week it was primarily during office hours. 🤔

SSH Tunnel Cheat Sheet

2026-02-01T13:31:41Z

Channel Your Anger Into Productivity

2026-02-01T08:00:00Z

One of the greatest meta-skills in life is learning to channel anger.

State of AI 2026 with Sebastian Raschka, Nathan Lambert, and Lex Fridman

2026-02-01T06:20:00Z

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Learning Music Theory as an Adult

2026-02-01T06:00:00Z

Learning music theory as an adult has been interesting for me, mostly because I wasn’t starting from zero. As a kid, I played the clarinet all through elementary school and into the beginning of middle school and I was pretty good at it. I could read sheet music well, and I even composed simple scores of my own. Nothing crazy, but meaningful for my age. That foundation stuck with me more than I realized. What didn’t stick, however, were scales. I’m sure I learned them at the time, but when you’re young and

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2026-02-01T05:00:00Z

Added to the film diary:

Carlito’s Way
Brian De Palma, 1993, ★★
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
David Mamet, 1996, ★★★★
Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh, 2013, ★★★

Added to the music library:

Gentleness of Nothing
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, 2008
The Tempest
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, 2009

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Feeling the Feelings We Don't Want to Feel

2026-01-31T23:58:00Z

So. Many. Distractions. One after the other. Whole networks of distraction. Right now, as I type this, I feel drawn into them. And that means I'm feeling drawn out of presence. Why is it so hard to be where we are? Maybe it makes sense to start by asking what all of these distractions are offering. Before doing that, I'd have to identify some of the distractions... A list of my distractions; money—worrying about it, organizing it, thinking about how to get more or spend less news—especially bad news relatio

York, North Yorkshire, Winter

2026-01-31T18:04:22Z

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Practical Introduction to Async Generators in JavaScript

2026-01-31T12:00:00Z

A comprehensive and practical guide to synchronous and asynchronous generators and iterators in JavaScript & TypeScript

Burns’ Portrait / Who Was Shakespeare? – Poetry News Roundup January 30th

2026-01-31T08:36:14Z

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K-Pop Demon Hunters is super cool

2026-01-31T01:24:02Z

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Top picks — 2026 January

2026-01-31T00:00:00Z

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I’m on the hunt for a new full-time position. If you or your company needs an experienced full stac

Using the Temporal API in Angular without including a Polyfill

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Add type definitions for Temporal without blowing up the bundle size of your app.

I Was 30 Before I Ever Spent Time Alone

2026-01-30T15:44:57Z

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Rust in the Kernel, and other odd decisions

2026-01-30T11:19:28Z

My email inbox is like the pile of documents on my desk. Things that I wanted to get back to ends up moving towards the bottom, into the never-ending pile of … stuff. For the first time in a while, I have looked at the bottom – and found an inquiry from someone who had seen my presentation at FOSDEM 2024.

They had a question for me, which I am going to paraphrase below. I am going to reproduce my answer here because it may be interesting for others.

Reverse Engineering the Apple Airtag 2

2026-01-30T07:21:00Z

The Airtag 2 is out. Apple products always worthy of a teardown.... they can be reliably counted on to be state of the art.Airtag 2 updates the bluetooth chip, new ultra-wide-band (UWB) which can do time-of-flight measurements which makes it much easy to find the airtag once close in, and a new speaker both louder and much more difficult to defeat.Case removed. Two coils of wire. Inner wire is the voice coil for the speaker. I believe the outer coil is for the NFC interface. Most of the exciting bits hidden

Webcurios 30/01/26

2026-01-30T06:23:23Z

Reading Time: 39 minutes FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH DONALD, NOW XI IS MY BEST FRIEND! Except, of course, the UK is not in any way a significant enough country in any material sense in 2026 for us to be in any position to determine who and who isn’t our friend – lol, like we have those luxuries any more!…

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migrate: Use forward table information to close() listening sockets

2026-01-30T05:58:11Z

On incoming migrations we need to bind() reconstructed sockets to their correct local address. We can't do this if the origin passt instance is in the same namespace and still has those addresses bound. Arguably that's a bug in bind()s operation during repair mode, but for now we have to work around it. So, to allow local-to-local migrations we close() sockets on the outgoing side as we process them. In addition to closing the connected socket we also have to close the associated listen()ing socket, because

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2026-01-30T02:13:00Z

This is my first blog post. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ling. Here is my self portrait...

nationwide general strike tomorrow

2026-01-30T00:34:00Z

The new Democrat announcement proposing minor modifications to the ICE funding bill seems to me to be cleverly timed. If you were terrified of a general strike and wanted to discourage it, would this not be the usual way? Do not fall for it. The corporate sector is apparently also terrified of a general strike. They're having the media they own report that the Democrats' proposal represents a "major overhaul" of ICE. It is nothing if the kind. This is an ICE funding increase. What we are seeing from our fee

Learning Thai with AI: Cleaning up my Thai words

2026-01-30T00:00:00Z

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Accessibility in visualization, full course out now!

2026-01-30T00:00:00Z

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On the expressive power of programming languages

2026-01-30T00:00:00Z

Programmers love to debate the merits of programming languages, but these debates often devolve into personal preference and hand waving.

Change Your Mind

2026-01-30T00:00:00Z

I strongly believe that the ability to change your mind is one of the most important skills in today’s world.

I have always seen the inability to engage in conversations that challenge your fundamental beliefs and strong opinions as a fatal flaw. I believe that engaging in such conversations either strengthens your beliefs or challenges them, forcing you to ask important questions about why you believe what you believe in the first place. I have always loved the idea of looking at yourself from a third-person perspective, allowing you to analyze yourself without ego or sentiment getting in the way.

Recently, I have had two main reasons to consistently live by this belief rather than just hold it: my personal life and the rise of AI.

I was watching a video and one of the speakers said that one of the sad things about giving advice is that no matter how great the advice might be, it has to meet you at a specific point in your life for it to be useful. It hit me like a brick. As someone who reads and consumes a lot, you tend to acquire new knowledge often. You use it in conversations and even to give advice. But you end up not applying it to your own life — not because you don’t want to, but because there is no alignment between the knowledge and where you currently at in life. This simply means your back has to be against the wall for you to learn certain lessons. There is no other way.

This has been me over the past few months. I have had to learn and change fast. Most of the changes I have made and actions I have taken are things I have known for a long time. But now, I don’t have a choice but to change. As they say in the startup world, pivot or die. Reality is savage. It doesn’t care about your ego or sentiments. It lays your cards out in front of you and tells you to make a decision — fast.

This is also true with the rise of AI. I have changed my mind from staying on the sidelines, to using one or two tools, to understanding that it is here to stay — and that it is very unwise to ignore it. As an engineer, my current stance is that AI makes writing code cheap, but it also gives us a new superpower. Our goal is to figure out what that superpower is, and the only way to do that is by using these tools.

Someone might ask how to know when to change your mind. I would dare say that keeping an open mind solves most of this. The issue, most times, is not the veracity of the opposing stance but your inability to let it into your reasoning faculty. Let it in, and let your intelligence handle the rest. Also understand that you don’t always have to change, but you do have to let it in.

You might also ask how to change your mind without your back being against the wall. I’m not sure how to do that, but I think it’s worth figuring out.

So, my friend, hold strong opinions — but hold them loosely. Remain porous to new ideas and be willing to change your mind quickly.

Everything has a hyper-local context

2026-01-30T00:00:00Z

Spec-Driven Development Made Easy: A Practical Guide with OpenSpec

2026-01-29T19:00:00Z

I’ve been vibe coding for the better part of a year. You know the drill. Open Cursor or Claude Code, type something like “build me a login screen with Google auth,” and hope for the best. Sometimes it works great. Sometimes the AI hallucinates a library that doesn’t exist, picks a routing strategy you hate, or quietly breaks something three files away.

Building AIs that do human-like philosophy

2026-01-29T17:44:11Z

AIs will face philosophical questions humans can’t answer for them.

Monorepo Tooling Update: Signed Commit Support in Git 2.52

2026-01-29T17:00:00Z

29 January 2026 by Phillip JohnstonBurnout has kept me away from several different projects for years, as my file timestamps frequently remind me. It’s a good reminder that bit rot is a real thing – my code didn’t change, but the tools and the runtime environment did. This has been important from both a “breaking” …

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Don't keep things tucked away (for later) ✍️

2026-01-29T13:37:00Z

How a storage upgrade project learned me to stop storing for later, but implement a process for continuous retrieval.

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2026-01-29T13:17:36Z

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2026-01-29T07:30:00Z

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How to Hide Data Inside RSA Public Keys

2026-01-29T07:00:00Z

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nixersnewsletter

2026-01-29T06:42:00Z

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Evolution of a Sketch

2026-01-29T00:00:00Z

Today's Genuary prompt included the word evolution, so rather than programming an evolutionary algorithm, I've chosen to evolve a sketch manually by implementing it in a number of frameworks in the Processing family.

Film/TV bookmarks (chaos resolved)

2026-01-29T00:00:00Z

I've been somewhat chaotically "bookmarking" things to watch for some time. The info typically goes straight to an Emacs org file primarily via Journelly.

I'm fairly forgiving in my input form. I often link to Reddit discussions, IMDB/Letterboxd links, or at times simply write movie or director names. The only real requirement is to sprinkle some hashtags (#film or #series or #watch) for retrieval.

While this flexibility is important (makes it more likely for me to actually write), it's not super practical to browse through this mixed structure when looking for something to watch. Yesterday, I finally did something about that.

Here's what my save-to-Journelly flow may look like for a Reddit link:

All entries are saved to Journelly.org, a plain text org file (Markdown is supported too), so I first extracted all relevant entries (containing #film or #series or #watch). A matching entry looks a little something like this:

* [2026-01-29 Thu 09:52] @ Home
:PROPERTIES:
:LATITUDE: 51.5007
:LONGITUDE: -0.1246
:WEATHER_TEMPERATURE: 4.2°C
:WEATHER_CONDITION: Cloudy
:WEATHER_SYMBOL: cloud
:END:
#film #hongkong #watch

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1j85b52/just_rewatched_kung_fu_hustle_still_felt_great

Having extracted non-personal items from Journelly.org, I created a git repo with just one file: watchlist.org including entries like the one above.

With personal/private details out of the way, I decided to let the LLM robots loose. That is, hand watchlist.org over to a Claude Code agent, via Emacs agent-sell to organize my chaos.

First I asked to normalize data by extracting all film/tv info from each entry, visiting Reddit/IMDB/Letterboxd links if needed, which yielded normalized.org:

Kung Fu Hustle
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074

Next I asked to generate metadata for me (using the fields I wanted from IMDB), stored in org drawers, saved to db.org:

* Kung Fu Hustle
:PROPERTIES:
:TYPE: film
:YEAR: 2004
:IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/
:IMDB_RATING: 7.7
:COUNTRY: Hong Kong
:DIRECTOR: Stephen Chow
:GENRE: action, comedy, fantasy
:RUNTIME: 99
:ADDED: [2026-01-28]
:THUMBNAIL: file:thumbnails/tt0373074.png
:IMDB_THUMBNAIL: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNGU2OWVlM2ItZGZlOC00Yzk2LWE1NzEtMDYwMzE4YTE5MzQ2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UY1024_.jpg
:END:

Finally, I asked to generate HTML from db.org so I can render and easily browse.

<div>
  <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/"><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNGU2OWVlM2ItZGZlOC00Yzk2LWE1NzEtMDYwMzE4YTE5MzQ2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UY1024_.jpg" alt="Kung Fu Hustle" width="150" height="225"></a>
  <p><strong>Kung Fu Hustle (2004)</strong></p>
  <p>action · comedy · fantasy</p>
  <p>Hong Kong · Stephen Chow</p>
</div>

For each transformation, Claude Code generated a python script. I've yet to decide what to do with all the resulting source code. Do I clean it up? Rewrite it?

For now, I'm happy with the results of the experiment. I managed to organize some of my chaos! In some ways, this isn't too different from me writing a quick/hacky/ugly script, when it's acceptable to do so.

At the center of it all, is my beloved org syntax. Thanks to plain text formats, we can easily peek at them, query them, poke at them, tweak them, and bend til our heart's content. It's just so versatile, and now we can throw them at LLMs too.

Oh, and if you're curious about that watch list, here you go. Do you have some movie/show suggestions for me?

12 Monkeys (2015)

tv · adventure · drama · mystery

United States

2149: The Aftermath (2021)

sci-fi

Canada · Benjamin Duffield

3 Body Problem (2024)

tv · adventure · drama · fantasy

United Kingdom

964 Pinocchio (1991)

horror · sci-fi

Japan · Shozin Fukui

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

animation · comedy · crime

United States · Richard Linklater

A Separation (2011)

drama

Iran · Asghar Farhadi

A Small Light (2023)

tv · biography · drama · history

United States

A Taxing Woman (1987)

comedy · crime

Japan · Jûzô Itami

Absentia (2017)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

Israel

Across the Furious Sea (2023)

crime · drama · mystery

China · Baoping Cao

Akira (1988)

animation · action · drama

Japan · Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

action · adventure · sci-fi

United States · Robert Rodriguez

All About My Mother (1999)

comedy · drama · romance

Spain · Pedro Almodóvar

Altered Carbon (2018)

tv · action · adventure · drama

United States

Altered Hours (2016)

sci-fi · thriller

United States · Bruce Wemple

Amelie (2001)

comedy · romance

France · Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Amores Perros (2000)

drama · thriller

Mexico · Alejandro G. Iñárritu

An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)

crime · drama

China · Bo Hu

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

crime · drama · mystery

France · Justine Triet

Arcane (2021)

tv · animation · action · adventure

United States

Archive 81 (2022)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

United States

As Tears Go By (1988)

crime · drama · romance

Hong Kong · Wong Kar-Wai

Asakusa Kid (2021)

biography · drama

Japan · Gekidan Hitori

Ash Is Purest White (2018)

crime · drama · romance

China · Jia Zhang-ke

Asura (2023)

tv · comedy · drama

Indonesia

Band of Brothers (2001)

tv · action · drama · history

United Kingdom

Banshee (2013)

tv · action · crime · drama

United States

Barry (2018)

tv · action · comedy · crime

United States

Battlestar Galactica (2004)

tv · action · adventure · drama

United States

Being Human (UK) (2008)

tv · comedy · drama · fantasy

United Kingdom

Big Man Japan (2007)

action · comedy · sci-fi

Japan · Hitoshi Matsumoto

Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)

crime · drama · mystery

China · Yi'nan Diao

Black Sails (2014)

tv · action · adventure · drama

South Africa

Blackadder (1983)

tv · comedy

United Kingdom

BlackBerry (2023)

biography · comedy · drama

Canada · Matt Johnson

Blade Runner (1982)

action · drama · sci-fi

United States · Ridley Scott

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

action · drama · mystery

United States · Denis Villeneuve

Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)

tv · animation · action · drama

United States

Bloody Hell (2020)

comedy · horror · mystery

Australia · Alister Grierson

Boardwalk Empire (2010)

tv · crime · drama

United States

Bojack Horseman (2014)

tv · animation · comedy · drama

United States

Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

United States

Brazil (1985)

drama · sci-fi · thriller

United Kingdom · Terry Gilliam

Broadchurch (2013)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United Kingdom

Burn Notice (2007)

tv · action · crime · drama

United States

Burning (2018)

drama · mystery · thriller

South Korea · Lee Chang-dong

Carnivale (2003)

tv · drama · fantasy · mystery

United States

Castlevania (2017)

tv · animation · action · adventure

United States

Chungking Express (1994)

comedy · crime · drama

Hong Kong · Wong Kar-Wai

City Hunter (2024)

action · comedy · crime

Japan · Yûichi Satô

City of God (2002)

crime · drama

Brazil · Kátia Lund

Cloud (2024)

action · crime · drama

Japan · Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cold Fish (2010)

crime · drama · horror

Japan · Sion Sono

Colony (2016)

tv · action · adventure · drama

United States

Counterpart (2017)

tv · drama · sci-fi · thriller

United States

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)

action · adventure · drama

Taiwan · Ang Lee

Cure (1997)

crime · horror · mystery

Japan · Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)

tv · animation · action · adventure

Japan

DaVinci's Demons (2013)

tv · adventure · biography · drama

United States

Days of Being Wild (1990)

crime · drama · romance

Hong Kong · Wong Kar-Wai

Deadwind (2018)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

Finland

Deadwood (2004)

tv · crime · drama · history

United States

Dear Child (2023)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

Germany

Decision to Leave (2022)

crime · drama · mystery

South Korea · Park Chan-wook

Demon City (2024)

action · adventure · crime

Japan · Seiji Tanaka

Derry Girls (2018)

tv · comedy

United Kingdom

Destroyer (2018)

action · crime · drama

United States · Karyn Kusama

Devs (2020)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United Kingdom

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

United States

District 9 (2009)

action · sci-fi · thriller

South Africa · Neill Blomkamp

Doom Patrol (2019)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

United States

Downton Abbey (2010)

tv · drama · romance

United Kingdom

Dredd (2012)

action · crime · sci-fi

United Kingdom · Pete Travis

Drops of God (2023)

tv · drama

France

Dune (2021)

action · adventure · drama

United States · Denis Villeneuve

Dust of Angels (1992)

action · crime · drama

Taiwan · Hsiao-Ming Hsu

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

action · adventure · sci-fi

United States · Doug Liman

Edie (2017)

adventure · drama

United Kingdom · Simon Hunter

Elysium (2013)

action · drama · sci-fi

United States · Neill Blomkamp

Encanto (2021)

animation · comedy · family

United States · Jared Bush

Endeavour (2012)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United Kingdom

Equilibrium (2002)

action · drama · sci-fi

United States · Kurt Wimmer

Euphoria (2019)

tv · drama

United States

Extreme Job (2019)

action · comedy · crime

South Korea · Lee Byeong-heon

Fair Play (2023)

drama · thriller

United States · Chloe Domont

Fallen Leaves (2023)

comedy · drama · romance

Finland · Aki Kaurismäki

Fallout (2024)

tv · action · adventure · drama

United States

Fargo (2014)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

United States

Firefly (2002)

tv · adventure · drama · sci-fi

United States

Foundation (2021)

tv · drama · sci-fi

Ireland

Foyle's War (2002)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United Kingdom

Fringe (2008)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United States

From (2022)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

United States

Funky Forest (2005)

comedy · fantasy

Japan · Katsuhito Ishii

Future Man (2017)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

United States

Gen V (2023)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

United States

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

animation · action · crime

Japan · Mamoru Oshii

Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)

adventure · comedy · fantasy

United States · Jason Reitman

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

action · adventure · drama

Japan · Takashi Yamazaki

Going By The Book (2007)

action · comedy

South Korea · Hee-chan Ra

Gomorrah (2014)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

Italy

Guns & Talks (2001)

action · drama · comedy

South Korea · Jang Jin

Halt and Catch Fire (2014)

tv · drama

United States

Handmaid's Tale (2017)

tv · drama · sci-fi · thriller

United States

Hanna (2019)

tv · action · crime · drama

United States

Hannibal (2013)

tv · crime · drama · horror

United States

Hausen (2020)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

Germany

Heavy Water War (Kampen om tungtvannet) (2015)

tv · drama · history · war

Norway

Heroes (2006)

tv · crime · drama · fantasy

United States

Hotel Del Luna (2019)

tv · action · comedy · drama

South Korea

Infernal Affairs (2002)

crime · drama · mystery

Hong Kong · Wai Keung Lau

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)

drama

Vietnam · Thien An Pham

Inspector Morse (1987)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United Kingdom

Ip Man (2008)

action · biography · drama

Hong Kong · Wilson Yip

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

action · drama · sci-fi

Canada · Robert Longo

JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)

action · drama · thriller

South Korea · Park Chan-wook

Jury Duty (2023)

tv · comedy

United States

Justified (2010)

tv · action · crime · drama

United States

Kaili Blues (2015)

drama · mystery

China · Bi Gan

Kalifat (2020)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

Sweden

Katla (2021)

tv · drama · fantasy · mystery

Iceland

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

crime · drama · history

United States · Martin Scorsese

Killzone (SPL) (2005)

action · crime · thriller

Hong Kong · Wilson Yip

Kingdom (2019)

tv · action · drama · horror

South Korea

Kung Fu Dunk (2008)

action · comedy · sport

China · Yen-Ping Chu

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

action · comedy · fantasy

Hong Kong · Stephen Chow

La Haine (1995)

crime · drama

France · Mathieu Kassovitz

Le Bureau des Legendes (2015)

tv · drama · thriller

France

Left Handed Girl (2024)

drama

Taiwan · Shih-Ching Tsou

Legion (2017)

tv · action · sci-fi · thriller

United States

Les Revenants (2012)

tv · drama · fantasy · horror

France

Little Fires Everywhere (2020)

tv · drama · mystery · thriller

United States

Locked In (2023)

mystery · thriller

United States · David C. Snyder

Lodge 49 (2018)

tv · comedy · drama · mystery

United States

Logan Lucky (2017)

action · comedy · crime

United States · Steven Soderbergh

Loki (2021)

tv · action · adventure · fantasy

United States

Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)

drama · mystery · romance

China · Bi Gan

Looper (2012)

action · drama · sci-fi

United States · Rian Johnson

Lupin (2021)

tv · action · crime · drama

France

Lust, Caution (2007)

drama · history · romance

Taiwan · Ang Lee

Man in the High Castle (2015)

tv · drama · sci-fi · thriller

United States

Man Standing Next (2020)

thriller

South Korea · Min-ho Woo

Manhunt (2019)

tv · biography · crime · drama

United Kingdom

Manifest (2018)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United States

Marco Polo (2014)

tv · action · adventure · drama

United States

Marvelous Mrs Maisel (2017)

tv · comedy · drama

United States

Max Headroom (1987)

tv · comedy · sci-fi

United States

May December (2023)

comedy · drama

United States · Todd Haynes

Metropolis (1927)

drama · sci-fi

Germany · Fritz Lang

Midnight Mass (2021)

tv · drama · fantasy · horror

United States

Midsommar (2019)

drama · horror · mystery

United States · Ari Aster

Minority Report (2002)

action · crime · mystery

United States · Steven Spielberg

Misfits (2009)

tv · comedy · drama · fantasy

United Kingdom

Miss King (2024)

tv · drama · thriller

Japan

Mobland (2024)

tv · crime · drama

United Kingdom

Mogura (2024)

Monk (2002)

tv · comedy · crime · drama

United States

Moving (2023)

tv · action · adventure · drama

South Korea

Mr Inbetween (2018)

tv · comedy · crime · drama

Australia

Mr. Robot (2015)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

United States

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

crime · drama · thriller

South Korea · Park Chan-wook

Mrs. Davis (2023)

tv · comedy · drama · sci-fi

United States

My Name (2021)

tv · action · crime · drama

South Korea

Narcos (2015)

tv · biography · crime · drama

United States

Nine Days (2020)

drama · fantasy

United States · Edson Oda

No Other Choice (2025)

comedy · crime · drama

South Korea · Park Chan-wook

Nobel (2016)

tv · drama · thriller · war

Norway

Northern Exposure (1990)

tv · adventure · comedy · drama

United States

Occupied (Okkupert) (2015)

tv · drama · thriller

Norway

Oldboy (2003)

action · drama · mystery

South Korea · Park Chan-wook

Once Upon a Time in China (1991)

action

Hong Kong · Hark Tsui

One False Move (1992)

crime · drama · thriller

United States · Carl Franklin

Ong Bak (2003)

action · crime · thriller

Thailand · Prachya Pinkaew

Oppenheimer (2023)

biography · drama · history

United States · Christopher Nolan

Orphan Black (2013)

tv · drama · sci-fi · thriller

Canada

Ozark (2017)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

United States

Pacifiction (2022)

drama · thriller

France · Albert Serra

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

drama · fantasy · war

Mexico · Guillermo del Toro

Panchayat (2020)

tv · comedy · drama

India

Pantheon (2022)

tv · animation · action · adventure

United States

Past Lives (2023)

drama · romance

United States · Celine Song

Peacemaker (2022)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

United States

Peaky Blinders (2013)

tv · crime · drama

United Kingdom

PEN15 (2019)

tv · comedy · drama

United States

Penny Dreadful (2014)

tv · drama · fantasy · horror

United Kingdom

Perfect Days (2023)

drama

Japan · Wim Wenders

Persepolis (2007)

animation · biography · drama

France · Vincent Paronnaud

Police Story (1985)

action · comedy · crime

Hong Kong · Jackie Chan

Poor Things (2023)

comedy · drama · romance

Ireland · Yorgos Lanthimos

Preacher (2016)

tv · adventure · comedy · fantasy

United States

Primo (2023)

tv · comedy

United States

Priscilla (2023)

biography · drama · music

Italy · Sofia Coppola

Professor T (2015)

tv · comedy · crime · drama

Belgium

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

drama · romance

China · Yimou Zhang

Reservation Dogs (2021)

tv · comedy · crime

United States

Riki Oh (1991)

action · comedy · crime

Hong Kong · Ngai Choi Lam

Ripley (2024)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

United States

Robocop (1987)

action · crime · sci-fi

United States · Paul Verhoeven

Rome (2005)

tv · action · drama · romance

United Kingdom

Rurouni Kenshin (2012)

action · adventure · drama

Japan · Keishi Otomo

Russian Doll (2019)

tv · comedy · drama · mystery

United States

Scavengers Reign (2023)

tv · animation · adventure · drama

United States

Scrapper (2023)

comedy · drama

United Kingdom · Charlotte Regan

Secret Level (2024)

tv · animation · action · adventure

United States

See (2019)

tv · action · drama · sci-fi

United States

Sex is Zero (2002)

comedy · drama · romance

South Korea · JK Youn

Shall We Dance (1996)

comedy · drama · music

Japan · Masayuki Suô

Shameless (2011)

tv · comedy · drama

United States

Shantaram (2022)

tv · action · adventure · crime

United States

Shaolin Soccer (2001)

action · comedy · fantasy

Hong Kong · Stephen Chow

Sharp Objects (2018)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United States

Shin Ultraman (2022)

action · adventure · drama

Japan · Shinji Higuchi

Shinobi No Mono (1962)

action · drama

Japan · Satsuo Yamamoto

Shogun (2024)

tv · action · adventure · drama

United States

Shutter Island (2010)

drama · mystery · thriller

Canada · Martin Scorsese

Signal (2016)

tv · crime · drama · fantasy

South Korea

Silo (2023)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United States

Six Feet Under (2001)

tv · comedy · drama

United States

Slow Horses (2022)

tv · drama · thriller

United Kingdom

Snowfall (2017)

tv · crime · drama

United States

Snowpiercer (2013)

action · sci-fi · thriller

South Korea · Bong Joon Ho

Somebody Somewhere (2022)

tv · comedy · drama

United States

Sonatine (1993)

action · comedy · crime

Japan · Takeshi Kitano

Spartacus (2010)

tv · action · adventure · biography

United States

Spiral (Engrenage) (2005)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

France

Strange Darling (2023)

horror · thriller

United States · JT Mollner

Strange Days (1995)

crime · drama · sci-fi

United States · Kathryn Bigelow

Strike Back (2010)

tv · action · drama · thriller

United Kingdom

Succession (2018)

tv · comedy · drama

United States

Survive Style 5+ (2004)

comedy · fantasy · horror

Japan · Gen Sekiguchi

Suzhou River (2000)

drama · romance

Germany · Ye Lou

Taegukgi (2004)

action · drama · war

South Korea · Kang Je-kyu

Talk to Her (2002)

drama · mystery · romance

Spain · Pedro Almodóvar

Taxi Driver (2017)

action · drama · history

South Korea · Hun Jang

Ted Lasso (2020)

tv · comedy · drama · sport

United States

Terminal List (2022)

tv · action · drama · thriller

United States

Terminator (1984)

action · adventure · sci-fi

United Kingdom · James Cameron

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

horror · sci-fi

Japan · Shin'ya Tsukamoto

The 8 Show (2024)

tv · comedy · drama · horror

South Korea

The Americans (2013)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United States

The Beekeeper (2024)

action · crime · thriller

United Kingdom · David Ayer

The Boys (2019)

tv · action · comedy · crime

United States

The Bridge (Broen/Bron) (2011)

tv · crime · mystery · thriller

Sweden

The Brothers Sun (2024)

tv · action · comedy · drama

United States

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

horror · mystery · thriller

Canada · Drew Goddard

The Detour (2016)

tv · adventure · comedy

United States

The Electric State (2025)

action · adventure · comedy

United States · Anthony Russo

The Empty Man (2020)

drama · horror · mystery

United States · David Prior

The End of the F***ing World (2017)

tv · adventure · comedy · crime

United Kingdom

The Expanse (2015)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United States

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

United States

The Glory (2022)

tv · drama · mystery · thriller

South Korea

The Good The Bad The Weird (2008)

action · adventure · comedy

South Korea · Kim Jee-woon

The Handmaiden (2016)

drama · romance · thriller

South Korea · Park Chan-wook

The Head (2020)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

Spain

The Holdovers (2023)

comedy · drama

United States · Alexander Payne

The Host (2006)

drama · horror · sci-fi

South Korea · Bong Joon Ho

The Killer (1989)

action · crime · drama

Hong Kong · John Woo

The Killing (2007)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

Denmark

The Last Kingdom (2015)

tv · action · drama · history

United Kingdom

The Last of Us (2023)

tv · action · adventure · drama

Canada

The Lazarus Project (2022)

tv · action · drama · fantasy

United Kingdom

The Leftovers (2014)

tv · drama · fantasy · mystery

United States

The Legend of Vox Machina (2022)

tv · animation · action · adventure

United States

The Letdown (2017)

tv · comedy

Australia

The Man from Nowhere (2010)

action · crime · drama

South Korea · Lee Jeong-beom

The Matrix (1999)

action · sci-fi

United States · Lana Wachowski

The Night Comes for Us (2018)

action · crime · thriller

Indonesia · Timo Tjahjanto

The Other Two (2019)

tv · comedy

United States

The Outsider (2020)

tv · crime · drama · horror

United States

The Pitt (2025)

tv · drama

United States

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

tv · drama

United States

The Raid (2011)

action · crime · thriller

Indonesia · Gareth Evans

The Raid 2 (2014)

action · crime · thriller

Indonesia · Gareth Evans

The Running Man (1987)

action · sci-fi · thriller

United States · Paul Michael Glaser

The Shield (2002)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

United States

The Sopranos (1999)

tv · crime · drama

United States

The Taste of Things (2023)

drama · history · romance

France · Anh Hung Tran

The Tower (2021)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

United Kingdom

The Town (2010)

crime · drama · thriller

United States · Ben Affleck

The Umbrella Academy (2019)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

United States

The Wire (2002)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

United States

The Zone of Interest (2023)

drama · history · war

United Kingdom · Jonathan Glazer

Three Colors: Blue (1993)

drama · music · mystery

France · Krzysztof Kieslowski

Three Colors: Red (1994)

drama · mystery · romance

France · Krzysztof Kieslowski

Three Colors: White (1994)

comedy · drama · romance

France · Krzysztof Kieslowski

Tokyo Vice (2022)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

Japan

Tom Yum Goong (The Protector) (2005)

action · crime · drama

Thailand · Prachya Pinkaew

Total Recall (1990)

action · adventure · sci-fi

United States · Paul Verhoeven

Trapped (2015)

tv · crime · drama · mystery

Iceland

Tron (1982)

action · adventure · sci-fi

United States · Steven Lisberger

Tumbbad (2018)

drama · fantasy · horror

India · Rahi Anil Barve

Upgrade (2018)

action · sci-fi · thriller

United States · Leigh Whannell

Us and Them (2018)

drama · romance

China · Rene Liu

Utopia (2013)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United Kingdom

Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)

animation · drama · fantasy

Japan · Taichi Ishidate

Volver (2006)

comedy · drama

Spain · Pedro Almodóvar

Warped Forest (2011)

comedy · fantasy

Japan · Shunichirô Miki

Warrior (2019)

tv · action · crime · drama

United States

Wayward Pines (2015)

tv · drama · horror · mystery

United States

Weeds (2005)

tv · comedy · crime · drama

United States

Westworld (2016)

tv · drama · mystery · sci-fi

United States

Wild Goose Lake (2019)

crime · drama

China · Yi'nan Diao

Wind River (2017)

crime · drama · mystery

United Kingdom · Taylor Sheridan

Winter's Bone (2010)

crime · drama · mystery

United States · Debra Granik

Yellowjackets (2021)

tv · drama · mystery · thriller

United States

You (2018)

tv · crime · drama · romance

United States

Yu Yu Hakusho (2023)

tv · action · adventure · comedy

Japan

Zero Zero Zero (2020)

tv · crime · drama · thriller

Italy

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I left my own startup to not become my father.

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