Scaling Laws Devlog https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/ Build notes from Scaling Laws, an AI company tycoon by HCK Labs. en Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I Turned a Starter House Into the First AI Lab https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/building-the-starter-home/ https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/building-the-starter-home/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Scaling Laws begins in a small house with one desk, a cheap car and a garage instead of dropping the player into a finished tech campus. The Best GPU Can Still Be a Bad Purchase https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/best-gpu-can-be-a-bad-purchase/ https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/best-gpu-can-be-a-bad-purchase/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scaling Laws treats AI hardware as a dated asset: it loses value with time, gets hit again by successor generations and can bottleneck on the rest of the server. Turning Chinchilla Scaling Laws Into a Game Mechanic https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/turning-chinchilla-into-a-game-mechanic/ https://pcworkman.dev/hck-labs/scaling-laws/devlog/turning-chinchilla-into-a-game-mechanic/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Scaling Laws turns parameter count, training tokens and compute-optimal scaling into a readable tycoon decision instead of pretending its capability score is a real benchmark.