About sumocat

What this is

sumocat is a weekly newsletter that reads 100+ AI research papers so you don't have to — and tells you what to do differently based on what we find.

We don't summarize. We don't explain. We extract what breaks, what works, and what builders should change this week.

Who this is for

  • >AI founders building real products
  • >Engineers working on LLMs, voice agents, and AI systems
  • >Indie hackers shipping AI-powered tools

This is not for students or academic researchers. If you want paper summaries or literature reviews, there are better newsletters for that.

Why this exists

There are thousands of AI papers published every week. Most are irrelevant to people building real systems. The ones that matter are buried under benchmark improvements and incremental results.

sumocat exists because the gap between AI research and AI engineering is getting wider — and someone needs to bridge it with opinions, not summaries.

How it works

01Source 100+ papers from arXiv and Hugging Face
02Filter brutally — keep only what involves real systems
03Extract what breaks, what's unrealistic, what fails in production
04Synthesize into trends, patterns, and shifts
05Write it blunt and short — no academic tone

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