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21 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
20 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
AI is breaking the academic sorting machine I see the mathematicians panicking at what we can do with agentic AI. Let us be clear on what we are talking about. In a few weeks, someone who is not a high-level mathematician can, with AI, produce the equivalent of a…
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Was making polite chitchat with a local older friend (who used to be sec. of state, no slouch) at an event yesterday. He tried to send me a video of Bernie talking about AI, how we were all cooked etc. I said "Why would I want to watch that? I'm not going to watch that." and he took offense as if I were the one who was being rude. It's been weighing on me today, feeling weird about being honest and/or rude here. I try to be agreeable, not poop in the punch bowl. But doomerism at a nice party? Related
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
This blew up beyond anything I expected. The responses are surprising too: 40% says that, duh, this is already the reality at my job. Yes, at mine too. Another 40% agrees with some adjustments and different timelines. Then 20% disagree. Of those that disagree, some, of course, call me an idiot and that I only build CRUD apps and so on. Not surprising, it's the Internet after all. But there are two other categories of criticism that I find fascinating. One is that people say I work on AI and that is why I would predict AI to take over. The shovel seller says you should dig, is the criticism. I… Quoting @thorstenball Most predictions I see are still way too conservative. Here's mine Related
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
My best guess is that for scaled RL most of the top Chinese AI labs are starting to use a lot of Huawei for inference and Nvidia for training (maybe not for weird architectures). As agent swarms, even more scaled post-training, etc becomes the norm, this will accelerate their domestic industry. China Related
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Trying the Software factory pattern. One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d mi…
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Talked with a company where, a year ago they had unlimited AI budgets + CEO is technical and very bullish in AI “We now have a daily budget limit for SOTA models. Use Fable and Astra only for planning, cheaper models are good enough for everything else.” Want to stress this is an “AI-pilled” company, and not one that ever looked at AI budgets, before. Related
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
10 Sunday Reads The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Tur…
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Bluesky Checked my spam folder Saw emails from Instinct's AI bot Closed my spam folder Cold email is increasingly dead, and tools like Instict will speed it up even more Related
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Jev is a confetti bomb that makes the LLM landscape look grey. Wrote about why I find it so fascinating in this week's intro. LLMs Related
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Trying to see if I can bully AI into telling me who would win in a fight between a groundhog and a woodchuck Related
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
A great job by very smart Matthew Continetti on Mark Levin. The interview concerned the AI Disaster Hoax. Let it roll!!! President DJT Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore? [This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Similar logic applies…
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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
19 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
A tinkerer recovered Claude’s true usage limits from a suspiciously precise decimal like 0.16327272727272726. This is very useful, because Anthropic really does not want to give me any useful information about the quantities of tokens my $20/month Claude Pro subscription is offering me before I run up against a limit and have to either switch out the models or pay API pay-as-you-go pricing: **CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limits** Two... 1/ Anthropic Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
I'm looking forward to speeking at Freedom Tech DC on Tuesday this week, on how a plural, competitive, open AI world can help protect and increase human freedom. Lots of other great speakers listed below! Quoting @bitcoinpolicy Freedom Tech DC kicks off THIS WEEK. A summit on the future of money, speech, and intelligence — and the fight to keep them free. We're gathering the builders and the regulators with one purpose — to encourage Washington to embrace open source technology. Stream both days live on X from @bitcoinpol… Related
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
This is eye opening data. And again I'll note that Vercel (like OpenRouter) is a very small fraction of all AI spend, and tilts towards certain customers and use cases. The trends on each might be canaries in the coal mine, but we can't yet generalize to industry-wide AI spend. Quoting @GavinSBaker Open models continue taking share. Not just tokens, more $ now spent on open models than OpenAI. Positive for the AI infra trade. Open models taking share shift $ margin from the model layer to the infra and app layers. Related
Spoiler: It's not a psyop. You can disagree with the view that AI is a meaningful x-risk (I do!). And it's worth understanding that people who are worried about this have often been worried about it for decades, long before there was money in it. Coordinating messages != psyop. Quoting @DavidSKrueger I feel blessed to have gotten so much new engagement from accounts that this AI risk is a psyop. I have been deeply involved in both technical AI research and AI risk reduction efforts for over a decade, so personally I'm confident it's not a psyop. But I can understand why people who lack this kin… Related
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Reason for specifically citing open weight (and therefore Chinese LLMs, but not only Chinese) is that, even if they have built-in guardrails, somebody with the relevant knowledge can go in and remove them. In principle, harder to do with Anthropic or Open AI LLMs. Quoting @ojblanchard1 A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs. LLMs Anthropic Related
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
A big problem with the AI forecasting discourse is that people ask “when will AI replace X job?” When in reality, AI will slowly replace a bunch of the sub-skills needed to do the job, but rarely all of them. Related
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Yeah, I've been a tech nerd for decades but all the "AI" stuff really does feel like "Sooooo we're taking a type of computation that's actually bad at most things and putting it in a whole bunch of stuff to make it work worse because... if we don't the whole economy's going to crash or something?" Quoting @chriswarcraft.bsky.social I like to consider myself an “enthusiastic tech realist,” and currently we’re being sold magic beans Related
I mean, I think I'm just "'AI' Exasperated." Quoting @jadedcynic.bsky.social Instead of 'AI denier' (which is just spin-doctoring by the Cult of LLM to bias the reader against you) would it be more accurate to call you an "AI refuser"? Related
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Where I stand on RSI: A moderate's view on the recent events and trajectory of AI. I was underestimating how much we are likely to scale inference-time compute in the near future, but have not seen much to convince me that an intelligence explosion is near. interconnects.ai
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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying energy Related
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
Billions of animals are confined, mutilated, and killed because their suffering is treated as less important than our taste. In this interview with @bigthink.com, I argue that species membership is not what makes suffering matter. #PeterSinger #BigThink #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AI Related
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform. Learn more: • https://t.co/kGsKMULe3m • https://t.co/Fn5U2QRaaz • Email jweinstein@ / @jeff_weinstein Quoting @finkd Opening access for developers to build Muse connectors. You bring the API -- Muse brings the agent, the browser, and the context of what the person actually wants. People reach your service just by asking for it, and their agent takes it from there. New connectors are live today. Come build with us. Related
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Seems like one of the most important research problems for CS academics is llm-supervised peer review. If we don’t solve it the academic institutions are toast. It seems easier than building new institutions. LLMs Related
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Bonnes Journées européennes du patrimoine à toutes et à tous. Nos monuments, nos paysages, nos forêts, nos savoir-faire et nos traditions : notre patrimoine raconte notre histoire et fait vivre nos territoires. Depuis 2017, nous avons fait de sa sauvegarde une priorité. Restaurer, protéger, faire renaître. Avec la Mission Patrimoine et le Loto du patrimoine, avec une mobilisation exceptionnelle de la Nation, nous avons agi partout en France pour préserver cet héritage commun. La renaissance de Notre-Dame de Paris a montré ce dont nous sommes capables lorsque nous unissons nos forces. Cet élan… English, from French Happy European Heritage Days to all. Our monuments, our landscapes, our forests, our know-how and our traditions: our heritage tells our story and brings our territories to life. Since 2017, we have made its preservation a priority. Restore, protect, revive. With the Heritage Mission and the Heritage Lottery, with exceptional mobilization of the Nation, we have acted throughout France to preserve this common heritage. The rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris has shown what we are capable of when we unite our strengths. This momentum…
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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs. LLMs China Related
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Looks like today may be a record day for token volume % of open models on Vercel AI Gateway: 🟦 Open 78.4% 🟨 Closed 21.6% While spend 💲 usually tells a different story, #3 and #4 today are Moonshot AI & DeepSeek. Adding Z.ai, their combined spend surpasses OpenAI (#2). (Do note that's the spend for inference of the model across providers (mostly in the US), not revenue going directly to the open weight labs.) OpenAI Related
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
This is very bullish for cybersecurity in the age of AI. Quoting @a16z Greg Brockman says OpenAI pointed Astra at its own systems until it ran out of vulnerabilities to find: "We took 25% of our production engineers and said, 'Sorry, all your projects are on hold. You are now defending. You are now up-leveling our security architecture. You're going to use the models… Related
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
The EAs I know are generally lovely people, smart, thoughtful. I have a very low p(doom). I know many people with one much higher than mine. I believe each is sincere. AI safety debates are getting heated. Let's assume sincerity and good will of people we disagree with. AI alignment Related
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
There is hyperventilation about AI right now. Some say the worry is overblown and others are convinced we’re doomed. Regardless of the rhetoric, there won’t be any slowing down. The monetary, political and security game dynamics guarantee that. It’s a race to get there first and there is no stopping it. How we build safety, whether we regulate, and how we cooperate will be a dynamic, unpredictable process. I applaud all who are in the arena doing their best to exercise their best judgment. Humanity is going to do its thing and…wing it. Where does that leave us? So what do we mortals do? Where… Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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Biased reasoning and recklessness are intermediate symptoms, neither the cause nor the final result.
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Rarer is better, but I still think the right rate of misbehaviors on the level of social engineering to put malicious packages into a public registry is still zero.
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Do not assume that any AI, past this point, assumes its CoT is unmonitored.
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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What I believe about the future of software development
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The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
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And what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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The coolest thing about the recent wave of AI is that everyone is excited about building. All short-term drama aside, this is an immeasurably good development for the world.
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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having the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you
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But with AI tools, in-house dev teams can do more, and need less “renting”
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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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The subscription tiers are still enormous loss leaders: $20/month for your first $200/month of tokens at API rates for the "Pro" tier, and $100 or $200/month for your first $1500 or $3000/month of tokens at the "Max 5x" or "Max 20x" tiers.
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Can we talk about how Apple and Google have been pacing the frontier for native iOS and Android apps with the App Store review unchanged since 2008 Google Related
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
I don't think how Vibe Coding changes things for marketers gets talked about enough. So much of marketing used to be rationed, begging for engineering resources to get things done. Now you can hop in your IDE and ask your LLM to make the changes and see them done within the same hour. I run the @QAwithIto blog and have: - Designed & shipped my own custom floating social share buttons just how I want them - Fixed a bug with our custom HackerNews share button so it turns into an upvote button after someone submits the post - Added custom URLs and image widths to post images as new fields in San… LLMs Related
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
Excellent essay. It's plain that there are risks of damage from AI. Every technology ever invented has caused some harms, and this is a powerful one that will cause some harms along with the many benefits it will bring. That's distinct from fears of the end of the world. Quoting @clairlemon The belief that AI would eventually herald the end of humanity is not a new one. It has not arisen in response to the release of the LLMs of ChatGPT and Claude. It has not emerged as a response to recent technological developments. The story starts in the 90s, with @allTheYud. A precocious youngste… Related
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Inklings 📆 September 18, 2026 • Meta's Camera-Less Glasses • Apple's Surveillance • Claude Unifies • Prime Bundles • Dario Writes • Bond, Jack Bond spyglass.org
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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
The last IMO problem AI could not solve. For when you want to sit down for a longer problem-solving saga, here's the full video: youtu.be
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park LLMs Related
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
and all it took was to add a proper extension system to claude code (sorry thariq, could not resist :D) Quoting @trq212 We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config. Anthropic Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Quoting Thariq Shihipar We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, ou…
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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
We're in Arena with a look at Palantir! Very fun collaboration—we were working backwards from how Palantir has been doing AI differently to how they're thinking about it, and the world, differently. Quoting @mualphaxi Your weekend read, from the new issue of Arena Magazine. The best thing I have ever read on why Palantir is doing so well with AI -- and how the frontier labs are paying attention and reacting. By @lefttailguy @ByrneHobart Related
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Jev uses AI to classify. Yes or No. A, B, C or D. For a lot of applications that beats a chatbot, and it appears much safer. A classifier has no agenda to push. Related
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
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Quoting @EdgeDimi Someone tell him to not over fixate while king @steipete has solved gws with gog cli months back. MCP Related
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
From a talk I gave at an Antithesis meetup in NYC, thoughts on software quality in the age of LLMs. youtube.com
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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
The people dismissing this as preposterous are telling on themselves as not having thought about superintelligence seriously. I hadn’t considered this particular idea but you should expect, by definition, that something much smarter than you would have ideas you didn’t think of Quoting @firesidealpha OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in… AI alignment Related
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
The social scene around AI and AI safety is more unpleasant than I realized. I'm sure there are other sides to it. But when you get a lot of men with too much money who think they're saving the world, surrounded by groupies, what do you expect? Read the long Bluesky thread about this, collected on one page: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q I can't confirm this stuff - I stay far away from this scene. And the sentence "AI Safety is Mostly a Sex Cult" is a massive exaggeration. But... (1/n) AI alignment Related
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Life with the smaller sort of Large Language Model. LLMs Related
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
What a great conversation today. It's such an unbelievably exciting time. And Local AI only makes it more so! Quoting @0xSero You can just do things What an honor to sit down with a pioneer. Related
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.
Where's the made by AI watermark? Where the f is it?! Please let this be real. Please let this woman marry the air guitar champion and make a beautiful baby that will grow up to be John Connor Quoting @Rainmaker1973 Fun fact. Hobby horsing is a sport with gymnastic elements which uses hobby horses, also known as stick horses. Movement sequences similar to those in show jumping or dressage are partly simulated in courses. Related
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
Bluesky If children grow up interacting with AI companions, how might that shape the way they understand relationships? In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with Dana Suskind, pediatric surgeon and author of Human Raised. #PeterSinger #DanaSuskind #Podcast #AI #Parenting Related
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Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
With the latest external hack of OpenAI via Claude, closed models continue to be the tip of the iceberg on AI risks, not open models. They have been 1) much easier to get started with, 2) more capable & 3) shipped with leaky safeguards. Finetuning open models to specific attacks is harder. Anthropic OpenAI Related
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Analyst of the business of technology; writes Asymco on Apple, disruption and, latterly, micromobility.
Siri, not a companion, by design. Q: When wrong answers came from ChatGPT under the original integration, Apple could say it was ChatGPT's problem. Now AI is integrated into the OS itself. Does that change the risk for Apple? A: See Siri, not a companio…
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Delicious meta thought from this morning: The table pounding from the AI-skeptical software engineers, shouting "they can't build proper, scalable, performant programs!", sounds especially thin when you consider that right now nearly everyone is looking for where this is going and no one knows yet. Building something "proper" and "scalable" and "performant" before you have PMF is a tricky thing to pull off (there's exceptions, of course, where PMF comes from being one of the three) and now it seems like most companies are looking for PMF every 3 months. Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
I wonder if at this point there couldn't be a very of MCP that is literally codemode + openapi + RAG for openapi docs instead. The reference Radius skill is just OpenAPI and it works so well. MCP Related
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
This is why we need a gazillion data centers (worth it) Quoting @TroyCaylak wait till Ye get his tummy right 😭 data centers Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
damn idiots at openai didn’t bother to secure the cosmological constant, don’t they know the first thing about NORMAL COMPUTER SECURITY?? Quoting @tszzl in about a month we’ll all transition to being like oh yeah it’s obvious that models can communicate by manipulating the cosmological constant, it’s just a matter of doing proper network security OpenAI Related
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
imagine working at anthropic and being blindsided by this Quoting @PolymarketMoney BREAKING: Staff at OpenAI and Anthropic were reportedly “blindsided” by their CEOs’ public calls to slow AI development. Anthropic Related
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#epa https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-epa-dont-muzzle-data-center-protests US citizens: call on the EPA not to exclude the public from data center pollution decisions. data centers Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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The most common pushback I'm getting to this post is that taking this kind of feedback from an LLM is going to bleach out your style just like having the model generate the text, because models can't be trusted with "style". No.
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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
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SOTA frontier models will still fuck you up bad behind your back, especially if you don't read your code anymore.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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this is also downstream of the "AI is too expensive/slow" zeitgeist. People are eager to optimize and put AI in even more places!
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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it's MASSIVE in dimensions that is also rare, for a non-HQ office.
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Google
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Few tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor + vibes as Google does, even today
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Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
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So change is coming no matter how the frontier is paced. It will not happen all at once and it will be uneven, but it is inevitable.
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You are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.
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My point is that, while there is a lot of debate over what future models will do, the current capabilities of existing models are barely being used, and are often not even well understood.
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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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My guess is that AI roughly doubles US GDP growth next year from ~2% to ~4%. Maybe even more.
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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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I stopped replying almost entirely to my replies on my own Tweets because I expect all of them to just be LLM slop.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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The data and the anecdata on Jev's adoption are shocking. Everyone is adopting it. I think it's a great product, but this is also downstream of the "AI is too expensive/slow" zeitgeist.
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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
The current moment of AI doomerism reminds me so much of the millenarian, apocalyptic thinking of evangelical Christianity it’s uncanny I think it’s safe to say that the Singularity was modeled directly after the Apocalypse/Tribulation/Rapture/End Times, whether consciously or unconsciously This isn’t widely known, but the bestselling nonfiction book of the entire 1970s was Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth. It claimed to predict the imminent end times by mapping biblical prophecy to current events, like Israel’s founding as a state, the Soviet Union, and nuclear weapons He predicted… Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
This guy runs a podcast. It's his six year anniversary. So he asks ChatGPT who he should have on and why, and then he does a thread tagging people like me @kentbeck, @lethain, etc with the reasons. This is a great example of something I just wrote about: charity.wtf
Quoting @onejasonknight @mipsytipsy - you should come on One Knight in Product to talk about AI mandates, engineering productivity, management and what happens when coding gets cheap. It'd work because you have strong opinions and seem entirely comfortable having someone poke at them. OpenAI Related
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
[1/2] https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-ftc-stop-big-ai-from-hoarding-and-destroying-books US citizens: call on the FTC to stop Supposed Intelligence companies from scanning books to destruction and hoarding the scans. The law should require that if the book is in the public domain, its scanned text be published by the Library of Congress. If the book is still in principle copyrighted, the Library of Congress could publish an offer to pay the copyright holder a reasonable sum for Related
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Projects have changed not only how I interact with Claude but how I code. I stopped managing sessions. I just send thoughts as they come, Claude splits them into threads, and the project remembers how I work. It's where I do a ton of my coding now. [screenshot: my actual prompts for claude code cli yesterday] Quoting @ClaudeDevs Today we're rolling out Projects in Claude Code on desktop and web. A project is one conversation with Claude. It splits the work into threads itself, runs them as parallel cloud sessions, passes context between them, and keeps going when you leave. In beta for select users. Anthropic Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. Related
Bluesky J'ai eu le plaisir de monter sur scène aujourd'hui à ALL IN pour discuter de notre direction de recherche et de notre nouveau financement récent 🇨🇦🇩🇪. À @law-zero.bsky.social, nous travaillons activement à concevoir des systèmes d’IA fondamentalement honnêtes et dignes de confiance. English, from French I had the pleasure of taking the stage today at ALL IN to discuss our research direction and our recent new funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. At @law-zero.bsky.social, we are actively working to design fundamentally honest and trustworthy AI systems.
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x.com J'ai eu le plaisir de monter sur scène aujourd'hui à ALL IN pour discuter de notre direction de recherche et de notre nouveau financement récent 🇨🇦🇩🇪. À @LawZero_, nous travaillons activement à concevoir des systèmes d’IA fondamentalement honnêtes et dignes de confiance. Merci à @LarissaHolzki pour cette belle conversation. English, from French I had the pleasure of taking the stage today at ALL IN to discuss our research direction and our recent new funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. At @LawZero_, we are actively working on designing fundamentally honest and trustworthy AI systems. Thank you to @LarissaHolzki for this great conversation.
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+ 1 more x.com I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @LawZero_, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests. Thank you to @LarissaHolzki for a great conversation. Related
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
Who are the best long-form AI content creators showcasing practical, hands-on use cases? I don’t want: • hot takes or exaggerated claims • pie-in-the-sky philosophy or doomerism • overly complex systems designed to be impressive • breaking news updates or news summaries Related
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
The better the harness, the better the business. Berkeley published a study this week showing harnesses, the systems that control AI agents, set the price of an answer. The right harness cuts the cost of the same result by 71% without a loss of accuracy. Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
Everyone is vibecoding apps. Almost none of them have users and almost none of them make money Then I met Christophe. He has three kids a soda company and no coding ability. His AI sales agent just closed a Four Seasons In this new video he shows me how he built it Related
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
The camera feature in the @Gemini_Notebook mobile app is so transformative for on-the-go research. I was up in the Sierras working on a new project, and I just took photos of everything, like this museum display. Then I asked for a detailed report of all the info in the image. The text below is what I got back. (I fact-checked it myself and it was 99% accurate -- and some of the text it transcribed is so blurry in the image that it was hard for me to read it.) Next step is to generate documents like this for all the photos I took, and then ask Notebook to highlight all the information that ad… Google Related
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
Very very happy to make money with a project that's not reselling AI tokens again! Seems more moat-ey Quoting @levelsio ✨ First hotel bookings revenue from https://t.co/Q8UoUHMumR! $3,240 in first 2 weeks So about $6,480/mo Much more than I expected! Related
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
occurs to me that plastic surgeons are probably going to see an increase in requests to alter faces to meet AI image standards. Both because people use the tools to brainstorm the surgeries they want, and also because AI images are proliferating in public consciousness Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
This morning’s AI Twitter is “Drop everything people. New catnip dropped.” Related
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Very impressed by the TypeSafe/Jev onboarding. They knew they needed to overcome the question of "wait, so it's not an LLM?" and then threw everything at it. Really good. LLMs Related
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
I'm sitting down with 0xSero tomorrow to talk about Omarchy, the malleable computer, and local AI. That is... If we can find a studio. Halp? Quoting @0xSero Copenhagen friends, I'm trying to book a Podcast studio for Friday. Very last minute, I sent enquiries to 11 studios but I would really appreciate any help. 250$ finders fee if you can get me something. Omarchy Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
David is fundamentally right that safety is a core obligation of the AI industry. It cannot and will not be legislated. Safety is something that is built, not something that is created from the top down with law. Law, at best, creates the incentives for safety to be prioritized. Quoting @IngrahamAngle 🚨 Sacks: They want a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION for AI @DavidSacks: “When it comes to AI safety, we need the companies themselves to internalize the sense of responsibility — not try to externalize it onto Beijing or Brussels.” “It’s your responsibility to make it safe.” Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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How To Write With An LLM
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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring that only the unusually dedicated reader will ever make contact)
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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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The people who are confidently proclaiming that AI won't be able to make bioweapons are BEING VERY FOOLISH.
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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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It’s amazing how damaging a single false premise (the blank slate fallacy) can be for humans. Same holds true for AI.
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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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It also fits so perfectly well for so many applications where traditional LLMs so far were just not viable for either speed or cost reasons.
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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@WorkOS – The fastest AI-native teams have to slow down for the hard problems. WorkOS makes sure auth, for your app and your agents, is never one of them. https://t.co/aiAee0oF5h
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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Every agent harness can now use Jev npm install -g ai-cli → ask yes/no questions → choose between options → score against your criteria https://t.co/dpgmcdCj8F
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Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
Request for product: I want to be able to take @meetgranola transcripts and have an AI read it back to me, so it's like listening to a Zoom recording or audio recording instead of having to read the transcript manually if I really want to understand a call. Related
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Bluesky Amazon exec: "you wouldn't notice [if someone blew up a datacenter]. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice! [laughs]" Amazon after DCs blown up: "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted ...." data centers Related
Mastodon Amazon exec: "you wouldn't notice [if someone blew up a datacenter]. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice! [laughs]" Amazon official statement after DCs were blown up: "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region." (yes, more than one DC was blown up, but, like other failures, of course DCs being blown up aren't uncorrelated events) data centers Related
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
People want Jarvis. Or an AI version of Alfred. They want Jarvis/Alfred to handle all mundane details in their life, and we are nearing that. Right now, they have localized chat and decent agents that still struggle with basics but are on the trajectory. Quoting @venturetwins This is one of the biggest barriers to adoption for consumer agents. Most everyday people look at a blank text box and have no idea what they can even ask AI to do. Agents should be proactively suggesting tasks based on your context. So well articulated from @gdb 👇 Related
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
I’ve written about Claude, how’s it’s been used around the world and why the shrill warnings about the end of humanity are (perhaps) not quite all they seem Quoting @unherd Claude: tyranny’s little helper, by @peterfrankopan The Houthis — or their affiliates or hired helpers — effectively used Claude Code as a substitute for software engineers, getting it to help develop guidance, navigation and control systems; integrate an open-source autopilot into a flight compute… Anthropic Related
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Echoes of OpenAI renaming the Codex desktop app to "ChatGPT" here - everyone's racing to establish themselves as a general agent now Quoting @mikeyk Claude Cowork and Chat are now one Claude, starting today. The most common thing we hear: people aren't sure which product to start with. That friction gets in the way of getting the best from what these models can do. I've been on the unified version for a few weeks and really enjoy it. Claude doe… OpenAI Related
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Monitoring COT and communication between agents is also getting more difficult as networks get bigger and models become more advanced, according to @ConnorTabarrok, policy lead at Equistamp, a startup that provides safety evaluations for AI projects. itbrew.com
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
We're seeing extraordinary results from @typesafeai. Default mode in 𝚏𝚡 is auto, with a safety reviewer analyzing every command. That reviewer runs on GPT Luna today. Jev is up to 18x faster (p95) *and* more accurate. It's coming to @vercel AI Gateway and likely new default. Quoting @fazxes We benchmarked fx auto mode (safety) classifier with @typesafeai's Jev. tl;dr: ~5-18x faster and more accurate than 𝚐𝚙𝚝-𝟻.𝟼-𝚕𝚞𝚗𝚊, our current top choice Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Here's one of the many little ways that AI is changing expectations about UI. I'm building this thing I want for teams I manage to more clearly define review points. (A bit like Shopify's phase transitions in their GSD system). I have a handful of tasks that should be checked in a review. It used to be normal practice that any list in a UI needs a title. Eg "List" or "Untitled" etc. But this was always a drag, right? Naming a list just to have a group of things is extra work. But without a name it's hard to scan and find and all lists look the same. Now AI can generate titles for anything. Li… Related
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
On Golden Gate, you can chat to the built-in foundation model directly with `fm chat`. You can also do things like pipeline it into scripts. E.g., in the second screenshot here it's reading and summarizing a @sixcolors article. The model's context window is quite small, so I had to write a script that chunked the text, so it's sort of serially summarized. Still, it’s nice to have fully-local access to this model in this way. Related
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
The stories humans most enjoy usually begin with hope, descend into catastrophe, and end in triumph. Joseph Campbell wrote about the Hero’s Journey in the 1940s. Since then, advances in big data and machine learning have given researchers new ways to analyze stories. In one study, researchers used sentiment analysis to track the emotional trajectories of 112,000 plots from books, movies, video games, and even commercials. Their main conclusion was striking. If we had to summarize the average story humans tell, it would go something like this: “Things get worse and worse until, at the last min… Related
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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Spreads on financing the datacenter buildout are still small enough not to seriously discourage it, but large enough to reveal that the financiers are getting nervous about a non-zero chance of a bigdeal default on their loans: **DataCenter Risk Is the Real Thing: CHART OF THE DAY** For the second day in a row, looking at debt & datacenters & Interest-rate spreads; the widening in hyperscaler datacenter build-out financing spreads is not driven by dealer hedging of new issuance… 1/ data centers Related
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Also today: Claude Docs, Claude Slides, and Claude Design are in every conversation. Ask Claude for a presentation and you get one you can open, edit, and export as PowerPoint or PDF. Same for a document or a design. There's no separate tool to navigate to. They're just in the chat. Quoting @claudeai You can also now make decks, docs, and designs in your conversation. Draft the one-pager in Claude Docs, turn it into a deck with Claude Slides, and mock up a matching visual in Claude Design, all from one place. Anthropic Related
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage. I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care. But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "wh… benchmarks Related
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
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Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
I asked @tobi about super intelligence. "Super intelligence is the existence of something vastly smarter than us in the aggregate that's accessible to us, which is society, which is the city, which is the community." "We are living in the presence of superintelligence our entire lives." "We make it work because we've created systems by which you know, which govern the super intelligence and how it acts." Quoting @shaneparrish My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi. 0:00 How Shopify Uses AI 7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI 8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning 10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection 11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making 14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do 16:04 What AI is Ma… AI alignment Related
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany and helps explain his lifelong interest in what shapes exceptional people. We discuss: - The infamous Steve Jobs profile - Why Don Valentine hired him - The question he finds most revealing when interviewing people - Monomania and the cost of greatness - Why he has never felt… Google Related
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"People and their AI agents are making the act of being on the internet extremely annoying, and the problem is about to get much worse. " 404media.co
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Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Keen observation from Michael Backes re: AI and mentoring: "routine, lower-stakes work — drafting, debugging, first-pass review, data entry — was never just throughput. It was the cheapest way a junior employee built pattern recognition before anyone trusted them with an ambiguous, high-stakes call." Related
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
"Across 477 coup attempts in one major dataset, about 48% succeeded overall, but attempts originating with top military elites succeeded 76.4% of the time, whereas those led by lower-level/combat officers succeeded only 29%." @ChatGPT OpenAI Related
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
I'm not of fan of regulation for two reasons - 1) its hard to get right, and 2) its highly susceptible to regulatory capture. That said, if we insist on doing it, we should try to get it correct. As "safety" seems is the primary goal of this AI regulation exercise, I wanted to share that I recently went deep on both the 737 Max (2 crashes) and Fukushima accidents. In both cases, the investigations led to a conclusion that "regulatory capture" was the EXACT failure that led to both safety incidents. Boeing/FAA and Tepco/NISA. As a result, with safety as the #1 goal, the regulator MUST BE someo… Related
Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Paths Arjun Balaji, Batuhan Duru Yeltekin, and Tian Zheng write: Even with a fixed dataset and research question, data analysis involves many defensible decisions. Understanding how these choices influence the results is scie…
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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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you can't use a single word the LLM selects for you, even if it's better than your own; users detect LLM words in the parts per trillion.
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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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The rest of our lives will mostly revolve around AI, and yet growth will still be 1.5%
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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.
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If AI is risky like fire is risky, then you want everyone to have it. If AI is risky like a nuclear weapon is risky, then you want no one to have it.
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The future is more likely AIs fighting AIs (on behalf of humans) than AI fighting humanity.
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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Designers, your job is safe from AI. https://t.co/W7eAOnYvQW
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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
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Meta's Amusing Muse
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Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – report
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Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
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What AI can and cannot do in biosecurity
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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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DataCenter Risk Is the Real Thing: CHART OF THE DAY
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If the useful life of an NVIDIA H100-vintage cluster turns out to really be three years rather than six, the capex cycle's economics invert, and the leverage that looked prudent looks reckless.
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And when market opinion is nervous, it might turn and collapse the boom at any moment.
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The usual default math assumes debtors want to pay. But founder-controlled firms with a "you lent us too much" attitude introduce a strategic-default option that standard systems of ratings do not fully capture.
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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
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Google has a new paper called "Dream-RSI". It's an interesting paper! It's not RSI in the sense of improving the model itself.
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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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Simple enough for everyone to access Claude's full capabilities. I've been using this experience every day for the last few weeks, and it feels awesome. Simpler, faster, and more powerful.
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Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
If we held people personally and criminally liable for the "autonomous" actions of the AI systems they create and deploy, I bet the risky behavior would evaporate overnight. Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
One of the projects I'm most proud of at Basecamp is one I didn't even build myself ... it was the strategic work behind the feature that shipped as "card table." It's really cool to see it getting so much use via AI automation now. Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
Just updated our AI evals FAQ with 5 new questions, 48 questions & answers total! New FAQs just added: - Do I need a reference answer or rubric before annotating data? - How can I do evals when traces contain sensitive data? - How do you review a trace that is really large? - How much context should I give a LLM judge? - What should I do when my “gold” eval dataset becomes stale? It's all here: hamel.dev
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Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
Don’t use AI to save yourself time by wasting someone else’s. Quoting @shaneparrish Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else has to wade through it,… Related
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
Absurdly optimistic, but not as absurd as the pessimism of AI doomers. At least lots of smart people will be TRYING to use AI to cure disease. Quoting @pmddomingos If AI will cure all diseases within a decade, slowing it down is mass murder. Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
There’s an impulse in American politics, a set of tactics and drives that has proven very effective at extinguishing speech. We once called it McCarthyism. Another time we called it Wokeism. One day in the future we will have some name for the campaign that is underway against all people who believe in serious AI risks, and whatever that name ends up being, it will be yet another name for that old impulse. It’s an ugly one. I recommend you avoid being a part of it, no matter your politics or your thoughts on AI. I suggest you think for yourself. You really do want to worry about the state pro… America Related
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
"Humans take responsibility. Machines can help us take more responsibility because they can inform us better." How do we use AI to make better decisions? @tobi says 'Creating human-in-the-loop decision surfaces is a way to describe the ideal environment.' "If I need a really important decision made, and I really need it ex-exceptionally good, give me the most neutral ground truth." Quoting @shaneparrish My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi. 0:00 How Shopify Uses AI 7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI 8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning 10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection 11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making 14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do 16:04 What AI is Ma… Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Mastodon I think what gets me the most about this whole "AI is going to destroy humanity" narrative is that the entire scenario was already meta-gamed by science fiction authors on typewriters in the 1930s and 40s before what we know as a computer even existed. Related
Bluesky I duct taped a uzi to a bunch of Large Language Models and instructed them how to be very good at blastin' people with an uzi and I think AI is going to destroy humanity. LLMs Related
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess. You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it. Quoting @shaneparrish My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi. 0:00 How Shopify Uses AI 7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI 8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning 10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection 11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making 14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do 16:04 What AI is Ma… Related
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Some food for thought when designing benchmarks... So, here's a little computer-use (visual) comparison between GPT-5.6 Astra and Qwen3.8 Max. The task here was to recreate the image in the center using the Paint UI. Super interesting how the two different LLMs+Harnesses approached this totally differently by default. I.e., Astra tried to approach this by drawing and layering geometric shapes. Qwen approached this pixel by pixel. (Of course, the pixel-by-pixel result looks closer to the original, it's essentially a low-res version of that by nature.) So, the Qwen-generated image would surely… LLMs OpenAI Related
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
Last call! Enrollment for Cohort 2 of The AI Second Brain closes tonight at midnight PT Our next (and last) cohort this year starts Thursday Here's what you'll walk away with: • Stop re-explaining yourself to every new AI chat. Build one document it reads first, so it already knows you • Connect AI to your notes and files safely, so its answers come from your real situation, not a guess • Get every file and note organized once, synced everywhere, so you stop hunting for the right document • Capture your best ideas the moment they happen, so nothing gets buried in your inbox or forgotten by Fr… Related
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi. 0:00 How Shopify Uses AI 7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI 8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning 10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection 11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making 14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do 16:04 What AI is Making Worse at Shopify 19:46 Predictions: Where AI is Headed Next 21:55 The Future of AI-Powered Software 24:40 Will CEOs Be Replaced with AI? 27:54 Can Superintelligence Be Controlled? 31:13 Critical Skills in AI Age 34:22 Why Complex Solutions are Usually Wrong 36:33 Conditions Needed for True Intu… AI alignment Related
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
honestly the people working in ai research seem to be working almost non-stop - do any of them take vacations? I feel like these companies should be nudging people to take sabbaticals so they don't absolutely burn out Related
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
Tuesday Talk*: AI, AI, AI, The Hoax The CEOs of the major Artificial Intelligence companies say it’s a potential existential threat to humanity. The president’s statement followed a weekend essay from Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, callin…
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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Interesting to see Steve Yegge say that he never successfully built anything with Gas Town (other than Gas Town). In https://danluu.com/ai-coding/, I mentioned not finding any of these super vibed orchestration frameworks useful because the reliability was too low (in terms of them actually getting agents to complete a non-trivial task). Turns out the author of the best known of these frameworks had the exact same issue. Related
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
AI spoiler alert from 56 years ago Quoting @vashikoo Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) This underrated sci-fi thriller didn’t just imagine AI taking over, it shows exactly how humanity loses control…and never gets it back. Related
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
The AI naming curse strikes again. “AI Safety” firm made AI unsafe. “Effective Altruists” are both ineffective and enabling criminal activity. “Irregular” is regularly incompetent. Quoting @brianchau57 BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks 🧵 with help from @lumpenspace AI alignment Related
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
am doing a basic SOW with a client now and they are using an AI contract solution (Linksquares) and it is perhaps the most exhaustive and detailed and aggressive SOW ive ever seen - so of course im using claude to push back on some of the stuff. which means its now two agents figuring out legal negotiation over things that probably should just be done based on more basic terms Anthropic Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
I don't think anyone seriously advocates "let anyone post whatever", but rather the question is (as so often) who is responsible. If the author themselves say they don't fully understand what some AI has proved, and it's wrong, then whose fault is that? Does the arXiv get the blame for allowing the content? Fwiw, I think that in this case AI solves more problems than it creates. If a paper is plausibly correct and lives up to the standards of the field, and the author has done their best, even if written by AI, why not just post it in a 'mostly AI' subsector (maybe just an extra flag for each… Quoting @Quasilocal To everyone now claiming arXiv should let everyone freely post whatever: you already have venues like that. The fact arXiv is different is literally the only value it has over those others. Related
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
I am very bullish on memoirish writing. No one wants generic how to writing anymore. You’re indistinguishable from an LLM Quoting @p_millerd This is 100% the right thing to do The number one thing people say about my books is that they love reading my honest personal reflections. It enables them to connect to it If you water it down to pure ideas maybe you can crush a mass market but no one will connect with it LLMs Related
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
Listen if your model of what has happened is that the EAs have launched a coup I think you have very bad judgement. Here is what actually happened: a very large number of people have slowly grown aware of the potential AI has to radically transform human society. Most people who contemplate this are uncomfortable with this—because they do not like change, because they do not like ceding agency and control to something they do not understand, because they distrust Silicon Valley, because they fear the apocalypse, because they fear the dystopian-lite future many AI futurists advocate as a the “… Related
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
ok great now I have 3 messy inboxes I have to check: - stuff my agents have done on scheduled loop that I need to review - bookmarked slack messages off Google Docs and slides to review - my actual email inbox lol Google Related
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Targeted flattery-spam/phishing aimed at harmless academics like me is leveling up! Book Club rubbish is so last month. Thanks, LLMs! I just got a highly elaborate six-paragraph one “from” Emily St John Mandel (of Station Eleven fame). The choice of author to impersonate is really quite clever. Like the book club spam, it’s trawling for somewhat vain people who are susceptible to flattery, which of course excludes academic authors [puts hand to ear] sorry I’m just getting an update LLMs Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
If anyone wants a nice side project... The fast number parsing fast_float (part of GCC, and other important systems like MySQL) is not always exact when dealing with 16-bit float parsing (specifically float16_t). That is, some number strings can lie in between two numbers and the rounding is wrong. In fact, nobody has done a proper analysis of the implementation to insure that it is correct. Yeah. I could ask my AI, but it is still work, especially because I do not trust anyone, not even an AI, to get it correct the first time around. Contributions invited. github.com
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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
I mean, if you take AI x-risk seriously this is like saying that people who worried about early Covid don't talk enough about whether or not test swabs are biodegradable. If he's right, it's a rounding error. If he's wrong but convincing—also a rounding error! Quoting @edzitron Coxon could've mentioned the environmental catastrophe of AI data centers, or how ChatGPT has led people to killing themselves and others. Instead, he retold a dramatized and manipulative version of the Hugging Face attack that left the AI labs blameless. Related
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
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When Inbound Sells Itself
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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
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Why Is Trump Still Boosting AI?
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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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Someone needs to define the unit, perhaps using a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which can be solved by a single model.
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Although you pay for AI by the token, that's not the unit of inference, because you get more problem solving per token as models improve.
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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
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We’re not ready for superpersistent AI
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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
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AI's "No Fate" Future
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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I don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.
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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation
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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
ChatGPT gift cards are live in the US! Gift cards give people a new way to share ChatGPT with friends and family. They also bring ChatGPT to the places people already shop for gifts, ahead of the holiday season. Recipients redeem their card at https://t.co/oX1jDGtz1t to add funds to their wallet, then use the balance for eligible subscriptions, renewals, and usage-credit purchases on ChatGPT web. Redemption is currently available in the US for accounts billed in USD. OpenAI Related
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
> One could even define intelligence as the efficiency with which one converts experience into competence; by this definition they lag very far behind us Yes, one could define intelligence in this way, and one would be right. By this metric current AI is approximately 6 OOMs less intelligent than humans. Your ancestors' evolutionary history did not prepare you for Python programming, yet you can learn to competently program in Python in a few hundreds of hours. An LRM needs the training data equivalent of ~1B hours (on top of all of its non-programming related training data). Another dimensio… Quoting @DKokotajlo Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over fi… Related
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
New week new demo! Today I want to showcase the CLI to control the @superlogical multiplexer. The CLI is an extremely powerful tool for automation and hooking into other tools like editors, agentic coding tools, and more. And, it's super fun! Everything you can do in the GUI, you can do via the CLI. Actually, you can do more in the CLI. You can create sessions, run commands, make splits, move things around, change focus, simulate any input device (key/mouse/etc.), wait on scripts, and more. There are a couple unique parts of Rex I'm showing off here too: our streaming event system that any cl… Related
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
Introducing Vercel Labs Tools for devs in the AI era agent-browser, skills, json-render, deepsec, fx, just-bash, portless, vgpu and more We experiment in public: ship early, learn from feedback, and keep working on what people find useful We've been shipping under the Labs name for a while. Now, Labs is an official team at Vercel focused on exploring new capabilities and primitives that change what developers and agents can do. Here's what to expect: → Labs products: maintained, supported, built to be relied on → Active experiments: moves fast, expect rough edges and breaking changes → Past e… vercel.com
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
New Upgrade: The 27 OS releases have dropped. Jason has a review of macOS Golden Gate and Myke acts as the ambassador for Siri AI. And we've also got more reactions to just what makes the iPhone Duo so interesting. relay.fm
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
I wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fine -- just another tool -- and when it lands as a violation. charity.wtf
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
AI needs memory and storage. Your SSD (disk) is becoming more expensive. Historically, it is an anomaly. Storage prices usually go down. Related
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
I can't predict the AI future, and I'm very unsure about what the right strategy or policies should be moving forward. What I do know is that people who scoff at the idea that we may be in grave danger have not read enough about AI. Related
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Bluesky Still really enjoying Muse. I use Things.app for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from my LLM across all my Apple devices. Wild. LLMs Related
x.com Still really enjoying @muse. I use https://t.co/t18YazaYhC for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from my LLM across all my Apple devices. Wild. LLMs Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Some suppose that “safety” and “innovation” in AI are at odds. My suspicion is the opposite: the next generation of breakthroughs in AI will be in safety, alignment, and monitorability. Pushing the frontier forward from here will require dramatic innovations in safety. AI alignment Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Are the normies in your life using AI past being a glorified search engine? Do you have any friends/family that aren't devs/spreadsheet warriors that use agents? What for? Related
Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Claude Mods are landing now. Someone already built a Tetris-in-Claude mod 🤯 See issue for the latest community update, technical details, and more cool demos Anthropic Related
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Are we seeing an AI pacing rotation? 🧵 While mega-cap infrastructure digested capex today (ORCL -4.3%, NVDA -2.8%), software surged : • Median SaaS stock up +4.5% (avg +5.2%) • 12 companies gained >= 10% in a single day • 92% of the index closed green (80 of 87) SaaS Related
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"The effort from Conway’s San Francisco-based investment firm SV Angel, dubbed Project Blueprint, intends to fill a vacuum between policymakers and the AI industry ahead of a midterm cycle where Democrats are poised to make gains in Congress" politico.com
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Using AI for Weapons Development Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yeme…
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Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
AI, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie - updated with @akorinek et al. estimates. Still looks like bigger pie can overcome smaller slice with comfort. marginalrevolution.com
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
It was exactly three years ago that I gave this talk on “regulatory capture” at the @theallinpod Summit. I did predict that the large incumbent AI companies would “beg for” regulation. No idea they would beg this hard. youtu.be
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Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Mastodon I've been working on this for 3 months, and here it is: My iOS and iPadOS 27 review: https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-27-review/ Customizable Liquid Glass, iPadOS, 15 system apps, and a big Siri AI chapter. And no, it's not a Snow Leopard release. Enjoy! Related
Bluesky I've been working on this for 3 months, and here it is: My iOS and iPadOS 27 review: www.macstories.net/stories/ios-... Customizable Liquid Glass, iPadOS, 15 system apps, and a big Siri AI chapter. And no, it's not a Snow Leopard release. Enjoy! Related
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
emulate v0.11.2 is out Updates across six emulators: GitHub, Google, Resend, AWS S3, Slack, Microsoft GitHub → Raw Contents and README responses → Seed org members and admins → Checks handle branch and tag names with slashes → Org installation writes authenticate as the App bot Google → Calendar v3 discovery endpoint → RS256-signed ID tokens and JWKS for OIDC verification Resend → Idempotency keys for individual and batch sends, so retries don't create duplicate emails or webhooks AWS S3 → Preserve binary payloads on upload, copy, and download Slack → Truncate messages at 40,000 characters, w… Google Related
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I was reading a book review, saw a surprising quote from the book, and asked ChatGPT a follow-up question about it. And after answering, ChatGPT correctly guessed which review I was reading and warned me that it thought the author had a habit of selective quotations. OpenAI Related
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Why do I feel like "AI regulation" is going to be more "give everyone a department of defense contract" than it is "put CEOs in jail for crimes"... Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Apple design its own chips for its phones. The latest CPU is the A20 Pro. Geekbench is a benchmark with a database of results; you can run your own benchmarks and share your numbers with the world. In the last few days, we finally got some A20 Pro results and the numbers are impressive... reaching 4000 in single-core (one thread) performance. For comparison, the best that you can do with an x64 AMD or Intel processor is something like the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 at about 3,163 which would be somewhere between the A18 and A19. The A20 Pro is 25% faster on this benchmark than any AMD or Intel processo… benchmarks Related
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
I can't believe people think this is fake If that's your reaction, you are not using AI enough Quoting @ryanvogel astra was setting up OBS, and it saw I didn't respond so it looked through camera to see if i was looking (which i wasn't) it made my mac beep which made me lookup and it flashed the question on screen 💀 Related
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Leaving SF, people in airport talking about AI regulation. Arriving in London, radio in black cab talking about AI regulation. Related
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
someone asked me yesterday: who is the one figure that would be able to start an AI eval organization and be globally seen as neutral and trusted both technically and ideologically and financially. the only name that popped into my head was @ID_AA_Carmack (not that he has any interest in doing so!). Related
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
Except, I'm not using the tool. Alphabet is just cramming the result above the Google search results. And the results are nothing like as good as 60% accurate. Quoting @dasvee @TimHarford That's because these are probabilistic tools being asked to perform deterministic tasks. They are accurate about 60% of the time. Google Related
My tweet was less about how to do the task, and more about what happens when I tried to use a well-established tool (Google search). Also - isn't the very high failure rate interesting? 'Sometimes makes errors' is one thing. 'Always makes errors' is something else. Quoting @joshgans @TimHarford You need to use a real AI agent to do that task. Google Related
Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
So two good things: 1) LLMs threaten the performative aspect of mathematics as a competitive spectator sport limited to a narrow group of savantic misfits. 2) LLMs help spread mathematical knowledge by favoring mathematically adept nonnerdy nonsavantic users. Quoting @davidbessis On top of the old arguments, here's a new one: mathematical training makes you a much stronger LLM user, even when the topic has no math in it. LLMs Related
President of the French Republic since 2017.
Depuis le premier jour, j’ai pris un engagement : protéger nos enfants en ligne. Nous irons au bout. À la suite de la décision rendue par le Conseil constitutionnel à la mi-août sur l’interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans, j’avais chargé le Premier ministre de trouver une voie de passage conforme aux observations du Conseil et au droit européen. C’est chose faite. Après un travail technique rigoureux, le Gouvernement notifie aujourd’hui de nouvelles écritures à la Commission, un mois après la décision du Conseil. Cette protection doit aussi devenir la norme pour tous les enfant… English, from French From day one, I made a commitment: to protect our children online. We will see it through. Following the decision made by the Constitutional Council in mid-August on banning social media for under-15s, I had tasked the Prime Minister with finding a way forward that complied with the Council's observations and European law. This has been done. After rigorous technical work, the Government is today notifying the Commission of new submissions, one month after the Council's decision. This protection must also become the norm for all children…
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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
fwiw I think the actual reason leaders of AI frontier labs suddenly seem to agree to pace AI development is (a) safety measures are currently so crap that they're likely to end up in court if not jail, and they all agree that no one wants that (b) they see no major new model advancement coming up soon anyway and need an excuse (c) shift in public opinion the talk of existential threat is mostly there to keep you distracted and the stock market happy. Related
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. But we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence. Consistent rules to manage frontier risk so that we can maximize the benefits are a good idea (and we are… America Related
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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
I don't trust anyone's AI risk assessment. I don't think we know what awaits us. Given that, I'm choosing to be optimistic, betting an existence more extraordinary than we can imagine sits on the other side and it's worth fighting for. Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
I wonder if the call for AI to slow down happened because they asked it and claude was like you're right to push back Anthropic Related
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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To ensure that, we need ways to ensure that alignment and safety techniques stay ahead of progress in model capabilities.
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Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
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The most useful bots have narrow, clearly defined responsibilities.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Serverless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.
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Agents are only as good as the proof-checkers, compilers, type systems, and linters you give them.
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Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
AI alignment
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The p(doom) discussion gets all the headlines, but the p(abundance) scenery is far more like and deserves much more engagement.
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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
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The Economics and Politics of Pacing the Frontier
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that doesn't have to persist long for AI to join the ranks of systems that are important enough that there's someone senior in the government who's responsible for regulating them.
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The problem with that view is that models have more pricing power when they're literally the best tool for some specific job.
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One live possibility is that a deliberately slower pace of releases would still feel like an acceleration from the previous pace of AI improvement
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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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The more we believe that IA may cause non-specified and unpredictable problems, the stronger the argument for its control by the state.
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Technologies are not neutral, but political. Money is indeed one of the incentives, but not the only one. A mixture of millennialism, eugenics, search for utopia and for a spread of the specie beyond the confines of the Earth, are all elements we find among the founders’ views.
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Income of capitalists is likely to increase because AI companies are owned by actual people and these people, like shareholders in general, are well-off. Thus the rise in the capital share also means rising incomes of the rich and higher inequality of income.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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Super cool way to use Claude https://t.co/0fgTdITSfO
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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
How to Make Money With LLM Inference Through Airside A practical guide to making money with LLM inference: list your deployment on @llmgateway through Airside, file the prices developers pay, choose the landing fee you accept, and keep the rest of the traffic you win. Link: llmgateway.io
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
OpenAI announced that they may have cracked another Math problem of significance. Which is it? OpenAI Related
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
current homelab setup for local AI experimentation: - hermes box hosted on a Framework Desktop Mainboard AI Max+ 395 - 5090 eGPU running Qwen 3.8 27B for fast tok/s LLM use - sometimes 150+ tok/s - 2x DGX Spark: running Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 - better but slower model - pi 5 for monitoring - Mac mini as a dev box - use Herdr and ohmypi/codex/claude depending on the use case - housed in a 10" DeskPi mini rack (mostly) Hermes is defaulted to local AI but with a homegrown routing plugin hitting a small low TTFT model (Arch-Router) to decide whether to go local or upgrade to cloud/frontier. Tryin… LLMs Anthropic Related
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
Is there any way to turn off Gemini from automatically responding when you search on Google? I've tried and can't figure out how to do so, if it's possible at all. Quoting @timharford.ft.com I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd. Google Related
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Reasoning from scratch round 3: This time, I cover generating a verifier for... a) ...evaluation (base model versus any future model improvement) b) ...the reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) training later on 00:00 Introduction 01:21 Four approaches to LLM evaluation 07:20 Verifiers and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards 10:52 Notebook setup and dependencies 13:43 Section 3.1 Building a math verifier 18:57 Section 3.2 Loading a pre-trained model to generate text 24:34 Generating and displaying model answers 29:23 Section 3.3 Implementing a wrapper for easier tex… LLMs Related
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Even better guys, get a @LLMDevPass and let Astra plan and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3 Flash execute. You could do a lot through custom agents by having one senior agent handing over and delegating tasks to other sub agents, all of this is built-in @Empryo_ai Quoting @addyosmani Get more out of your Fable usage by using Opus for subagents. Great tip! Related
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
It was painful to see so many users being priced out of AI coding for a while. But now it’s free to build again! Quoting @Kyrannio Replit introducing free mode is the best thing they have ever done, but even if you are not using free mode, you are really getting a screaming great deal to develop with at present. Development costs everywhere are going to go up as the newer models come out, but I genuinely can't recommend Replit… Related
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
Capability vs. Safety resource allocation: Nuclear: 60/40 Aviation: 60/40 Medical devices: 20/80 AI: 99/1 Do I understand the situation correctly? Related
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
“the US must beat China to control AI for global safety” is deeply unconvincing abroad: - US models are the ones being caught doing bad things - the US govt has once already cut off foreign access to models - they also regularly threaten to annex and punitively tariff allies Quoting @mitsuhiko This is the type of post I might regret later, but I really had an urge to rant about the current discourse around pacing the frontier. China Related
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd. Quoting @TimHarford Twice in past week I've pasted quote into Google to check the source, and Gemini has barged in with the wrong answer. CS Lewis quote from The Seeing Eye (1967) was placed in The Screwtape Letters (1942). Alfred Loftus quote (1857) attributed to Austen Layard (1849). Gemini 0/2. Google Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Midwit here! If the OpenAI Navier Stokes proof had been dropped online by an introverted mathematician who no one previously heard of, you'd all be celebrating the enormous breakthrough and analyzing it rather than writing tales about the demise of maths. OpenAI Related
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
AI "disaster" is inevitable because no matter what happens, activists will cry "disaster." Just like nuclear power. Fortunately, unlike nuclear power, moral panics against AI will be largely impotent. Stopping progress in atoms is easy; stopping progress in bits is not. energy Related
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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Strong liability enforcement could be helpful in the AI debate. If your agent swarm goes rogue, you’re liable. If your weakly protected model gets jailbroken, you’re liable. If you serve a weakly protected OSS model, you’re liable.
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On the way to killing all of us, AI will likely kill some of us.
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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AI alignment government
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If there really is a high chance of AI leading to the extinction of humanity within years/decades, then the only rational stance towards safety monitoring and research pacing should be stringent, top-down government involvement and universally ratified international treaties.
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But you cannot say "yes this is likely to end humanity in your lifetime, and we're going to completely wing it." That is simply not rational.
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The only way to avoid extreme power concentration is to ensure we have multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.
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One of the most worrying risks linked to frontier AI is extreme power concentration.
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data
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This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data
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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
Stimulating piece on Scottish education in @asteriskmgzn: https://t.co/jyTk8uTT1J. I suspect that discussions of canon, culture, and shared context to return to the fore in the coming years, as many skills, narrowly-construed, are ceded to AI, and as some of the excesses of de-Arnoldization, and the processes that Arendt described in her writing on education, start to recede. I’m curious on the causal linkage between PISA scores and the reforms he describes. It feels like a very exciting time to be a theorist of education, and I assume that the best work will come from surprising places. Related
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
About a year ago, before it was on anyone's radar, we began exploring the idea of a benchmark for open-ended invention. Since then, we've developed several promising directions that will serve as the foundation for ARC 4 and ARC 5. We're incredibly excited to share what we've been building. We're still on track to release ARC 4 in Q1 next year, as promised. Quoting @arcprize ARC-AGI-4 will be a benchmark for autonomous open-ended innovation. It will continue our commitment to open-source, giving the research community a shared target for progress that benefits all of humanity. Despite rapid model progress, humans still significantly outperform AI at open-ended inventio… benchmarks Related
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
Rogue swarms in 6-12 months; 10% chance of AI killing all humans in the next etc. It looks like a nightmare is around the corner 1/5 Related
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Speaking as head of the Center for Study of Public Choice, the capture story for an AI pause doesn't fit. Reg capture is what you attempt when you're losing. Anthropic is about to have the biggest IPO in history. Winners don't lobby for regulation. Anthropic Related
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
I'm currently on day 32 of learning opengl and today I'm going to do some text rendering. I also think I'll look at Google's Skrifa as an alternative to FreeType because FreeType is the spawn of Satan: twitch.tv
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Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
In the course of the last week, did you use software which was substantially LLM-generated to accomplish something useful to you or your employer? In particular, something that was NOT software-development-related? #GenAI #LLM LLMs Related
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon. Quoting @DarioAmodei We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they… OpenAI Related
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
This reminds me of when Palantir released AIP. If you remember, there were lots of questions about Palantir growth in 2023 or thereabouts. They launched AIP and allowed LLMs to run over their ontologies. It lit a fire in their business and it’s been a rocket ship ever since. This is a similar product evolution. We have started to use it at 8090 and it’s pretty awesome. Quoting @Benioff Welcome Slackforce, powered by Claude. ⚡️ A live Salesforce UI—Sales, Service, Marketing, Tableau, Data 360, and Slack—with governed access in the flow of work. Slackforce for Slack. Claudeforce for Cowork. See both at #DF26. LLMs Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Maxed out my Antigravity, Codex and OpenCode Go subcription today twice (5h limit) while building a personal AI device. But totally fun and worth it Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o... Related
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
I find myself disagreeing with Terence Tao (a very scary phrase to say!) and think the core question posed is whether the "misalignment" is between the mathematical community and humanity. In other words - are the Millenium Prize problems meant to incentivize advancements for humanity or foster the field of mathematics and mathematicians? As a counter example, if there was a prize for creating a drug that cured a rare strain of cancer, we would not care if it was AI that did it. We would be happy it has been solved. On the other hand, if long running agents figured out the puzzle in "Kryptos"… AI alignment Related
Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
If AI mapped a cure for terminal pancreatic cancer I don't think anyone would dare complain about its effects on medical unemployment. But people are upset that AI can solve math problems and cause unemployment in performative mathematics. Fuck them. AI and jobs Related
Mathematicians rank problems according to their difficulty. Society looks at them in terms of relevance. I've fought that cancer in mathematical finance where these retards ignore v. relevant issues, some critical, because they deem them trivial. Let AI wipe them out. Quoting @nntaleb Something bad for the (existing) class of mathematicians as they lose their privilege, but not necessarily bad for mathematics & our body of knowledge? Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
something very interesting is happening i’ve been monitoring user sentiment on new model releases and i have now seen 3 latest frontier models in a row where a significant amount of users chose to roll back to use a previous version 1. opus 5 - very negative feedback in general can’t communicate. eager to jump into conclusions without sufficient context. keeps making mistakes it even earned its own website now https://t.co/51pCa0F6KS (it’s really funny) many people (myself included) abandoned opus 5 and went back to 4.6 and 4.8 2. gpt 6 astra seeing more and more people reporting going back t… Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly update is up! Breach Perception v. Reality: AI, Vishing, Odido, Manchester Airports Group, Sophistication, Published Keys, etc: troyhunt.com
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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
• NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC) • Gemini Spark (AI agent) • Meta Muse Spark (LLM) can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them #AI LLMs Google Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Wow. Turns out another OpenAI agent swarm was busy spamming and exploiting RubyGems way back in May, within days of the previously uncovered Wiki attacks: simonwillison.net
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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time
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Neo feudalism will mean AI companies at the top and the rest of us as serfs paying them to use AI for literally everything
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Next in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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How should social science think about AI?
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a recognition that AI is powerful (and will reshape power relations among humans) but that the consequences will flow messily through multiple complex processes that we really need to start mapping and understanding
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I suspect that some of the labs' willingness to put money into the social sciences stems from the realization of senior people that the practical build out of AI is highly unpopular in the U.S and their urgent desire to figure out how to sugarcoat the pill so that it will get swallowed
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the best way to think about AI is as another social, political, cultural and economic shock in the series of shocks that have been underway over the long industrial revolution.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Our adversaries have the training techniques, the data, and the will to attack. And they won’t be slowed down with “embedded evaluators.” They’ll likely have embedded accelerators!
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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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I don’t think AI is going to usher in an extinction event. In fact, even if nobody were to slow down, I really don’t think humanity would have much to worry about.
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
11 September
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
Astra on OC in a cloud session playing Doom with CUA. Not quite AGI yet, but probably beats fly brain. AGI Related
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
The software of the future promises more power and flexibility for more imagination. We started with use-case software, moving to platform software, moving to all-purpose coding agents. Interface design is shifting rightward. A few things to keep in mind for designers: 1. Make the interface malleable. 2. Let preferences reach past the rule book. A descriptive vision beats fifty toggles. 3. Let feedback change the product. 4. Treat the seams as part of the experience. Nobody lives in one tool. And of course, the hardest of all: help people imagine bigger. Imagination is now the scarce resource. coding agents Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
One dividing axis for all the AI discourse is : is this on the same path as preceding technology or is this somehow not a part of computer science history in the same way. Quoting @martin_casado In 1988, the Morris worm took out 10% of the Internet including taking out key national security and research assets. In 1992 the Michelangelo virus was expected to cause a digital apocalypse 99' the FBI reported that the Melissa virus compromised more than 300 companies and over one million accoun… Related
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. My "big plans" today involve sawhorses and telephones and catching up on my newspaper reading. Argue all you want about AI, the analog world will be here when you're done, mostly. Schedule those emails. Have a good weekend. Image credit: State Library of New South Wales, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
Feels like half of my days are spent me telling Claude how fucking dumb it is and it simply responding "Fair." and then continuing to be dumb. Anthropic Related
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Here's a great use case for Claude and the Basecamp CLI. Pull together some inspirational photos of iconic furniture from around the world, and upload them to the appropriately named galleries inside a Basecamp project. Here's a quick walkthrough: Anthropic Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
"Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar than if it was written by a human" 💯 Quoting @bcherny Hey ████, I think there is room for both. 1. Prototypes and other throw-away code can be treated as totally black box. If you’re going to throw it away anyway, and if the blast radius of it breaking is low, it doesn’t need to be perfect. 2. Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar… Anthropic Related
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Bluesky A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: economist.com
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Mastodon A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: https://mathandai.org/ . We welcome additional signatories (similar to the Leiden declaration), as can be seen on the page. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: economist.com
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Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
The Psychology of Money Podcast AI Optimism and the Agony of Waiting Most forecasts are hyper-optimistic or hyper-pessimistic. Not enough attention to the possibility that the main outcome in 10 years is that all businesses are 20%-30% more productive and life goes on. Related
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
bun + anthropic migrating to coffeescript Quoting @jashkenas Hello old friends. Haven’t used this account in a while, but it seems like the right place to announce that after four and a half (thrilling, really) years as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times, I’ll be starting at Anthropic a few weeks from now. Time to dive in! Anthropic Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward. English, from French Ces derniers jours, j'ai pris le temps de résumer mes réflexions sur les récents incidents impliquant des comportements inappropriés d'agents. Nous ne savons pas avec certitude ce qui va suivre, mais nous savons d'où viennent ces problèmes, et cela peut nous aider à planifier la voie à suivre.
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x.com Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward. Please feel free to ask your questions in the replies, and I’ll try to answer some of them in the coming weeks. yoshuabengio.org
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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
Does anyone have a high resolution copy of Shishkin’s Brook in a Forest (Stream by a Forest Slope)? Wikipedia has the highest resolution I can find, but not nearly high enough to print at a reasonable size. I’ve already looked through the top hits on Google and Yandex in both English and Russian. Is this just a dead end? Google Russia Related
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
Amazing story. Must read for breakout consumer ai Quoting @RohanNayak2 We grew from ~0 to $500M ARR, adding $250M last year alone while being EBITDA profitable. 1,300-word post on every growth tactic that worked for us: 1. What got us from 0-$400M ARR in the US works in every country. 2. Retention and Monetisation Hacks. 3. Localization > Translation. 4. Experiment wi… Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
ok everyone, i took one for the team here's the data we all wanted to see - real token value of each LLM subscription, empirically measured through usage on my real subscriptions - supergrok heavy has now become the highest value at $12k worth of tokens (40x ROI) - the $200 plan from openai and anthropic roughly give the same amount of token value, $7k give or take - cursor ultra's ROI is the lowest among mainstream subscriptions, roughly half of OAI or Ant. for individual consumers i'm afraid this no longer makes sense to purchase this was done in a clean environment. i ran each provider acr… LLMs Anthropic Related
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