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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.

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  Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.

  coding agents

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  Strap a frontier AI into a good coding harness, show it what's broken, give it all the sources (source.tar), and ~15 minutes later I have a patch.

  What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Omarchy

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  Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort

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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.

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  Software only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse.

  coding agents

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  to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't

  @bentlegen on Xx.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Blender

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  New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://t.co/GvMDfD926E

  x.com

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.

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  AI coding agents pulling unknown code onto corporate networks will be exploited, and it will take the shape of a supply-chain attack.

  coding agentssolar

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  This kind of thing will be exploited. Think Solar Winds–style supply chain attacks.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Vercel AI Gateway

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  Points all coding agents to AI Gateway, getting you 100% uptime, observability, budgets, and ease of switching.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.

  coding agentsAnthropic

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  I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.

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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  Coding agents make every plugin interface you ever blew off trivially usable, which is a large productivity win.

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  I can't say enough how excellent a coding agent is at customizing Chrome with extensions. A huge productivity win. Every plugin interface you've ever blown off is now trivially usable.

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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.

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  Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written.

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  buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Auto-mode does not yet convincingly fix prompt-injection risk for coding agents.

  coding agents

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  I REALLY want to believe that this fixes prompt injection risks for coding agents, but I'm just not there yet

  @simonw on Xx.com

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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  Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

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  A very good and aggressively readable book about how terrible slavery was in the Roman Empire.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  Translating software from one programming language to another is where coding agents already excel, because the existing code is a perfect specification.

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  Um, and to give you an example of a a a use of a coding agent that works extremely well is you can ask today's models to translate software from one computer language to another very effectively because in that case you actually have a incredibly detailed specification.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory.

  coding agents

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  we we kind of have coarse level uh recursive self-improvement already. And the fact that every time you use it, it improves the markdown files. Uh every time you use it, it updates its uh long-term memory.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

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  New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of.

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  new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.

  The Network Statethenetworkstate.com

Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Transit investment should prioritize raising ridership on already well-used lines over creating minimal service where none exists.

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  it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%

  Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com

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).

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  In coding agents, untrusted repositories should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent into risky actions via approved tools.

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  untrusted repos should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent toward reading files, running commands, or sending data through approved tools.

  Using Local Coding Agentsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

From one piece Building OpenCode with Dax Raad 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The verbose enterprise patterns everyone hated are worth having again: coding agents are idiots working around the clock, and you are not the one typing the boilerplate any more.

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  We're now doing it in a much heavier way because we find that these like kind of bory enterprisey uh patterns end up being pretty useful because you have a bunch of idiots on your team now. The coding agents are a bunch of idiots and they are going to work 24/7 and they're going to like ship a lot of stuff. So you need way more guardrails than you used to.

  Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com

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  The winning move in coding agents was inverted: take share with a merely good-enough harness first, then go back and make the harness smart.

  coding agents

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  And our harness wasn't very good for like the first like five months of open code. But it was good enough. It was good enough that most people couldn't really tell a difference. And once we won enough share, then we went back and like tried to make our harness like good and smart and optimize and all those things. But uh it was inverted from what everybody else was doing. Everybody else was being like you have to build the smartest harness and that's how you win.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.

  CSS

  Their words, before

  I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!

  Their words now

  I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.

Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Designers should code, and AI coding agents have reopened that door after a decade in which front-end complexity closed it.

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  There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes. But for a decade or so, the complexity of front-end development made it impractical for most. Thankfully, AI coding agents have reopened the door.

  Should Designers "Code"?lukew.com

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  The loop has flipped: it used to be faster to mock up software than to ship it, and now designers can work iteratively in production code.

  coding agents

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  For years, it was faster to mock up software than to ship it. Designers stayed "ahead" of engineering with prototypes. Now AI coding agents make development so much faster that the loop has flipped.

  Should Designers "Code"?lukew.com

Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  The revenue level at which publicly sharing business details invites cloning has fallen to essentially zero because of AI coding agents.

  coding agents

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  the likelihood of inspiring someone to build a competitor was too high, and the return on sharing was too low to justify the exposure. That threshold has effectively collapsed to zero.

  The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com

Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  Directing a swarm of coding agents is a different, multi-threaded way of thinking that costs more cognitive load, and the engineers who make the switch have doubled their output.

  coding agents

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  it required a different way of thinking and the cognitive load might be a little higher but the output is dramatic and we have seen our best engineer double their output.

  Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com

Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Education cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works.

  Their words

  Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  What limits you with coding agents is your own skill at stringing them together, not the capability of the models.

  coding agents

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  I think to a large extent you feel like it's a skill issue. It's not that the capability is not there. It's that you just haven't found a way to string it together of what's available.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Test-driven development matters more with coding agents than it ever did with people, because its real effect is stopping the agent writing more code than the task needs.

  coding agents

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  the key thing about TDD is that it means that the agents won't write more than they need to.

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  Writing code with a coding agent and no tests at all is indefensible, because the old objection to testing — that it is extra work you then have to maintain — no longer applies.

  coding agents

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  I think I see people who are writing code with coding agents and they're not writing any tests at all. That's a terrible idea.

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  Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once.

  coding agents

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  I think that might be what saves us. I think the fact that no, you can't have one engineer and have him do a thousand projects because after three hours of that he's going to literally pass out in a corner.

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Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  Coding agents demand more reading than most people can do, and until better interfaces arrive that leaves those people at a severe disadvantage.

  coding agents

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  So I think we're in a weird limbo for the rest of this year okay where until the UIs arrive that are good enough for everybody who can't read everybody who can't read is going to be a severe disadvantage.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  The real value of AI coding agents is in the code a developer would never have written themselves, not just what they generate for you.

  coding agents

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  But the quality of these systems isn't just in the code they write. It's also in the code I don't have to write. And maybe more importantly, their actual value is in the code I would never have written, or could never have written, or never would have wanted to write.

  When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com

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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  Working with coding agents is a skill you learn like an instrument; judging the tools after one try is like calling a piano bad after one go.

  coding agents

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  It's the same way as you have to play with a guitar before you can make good music. It's, it's not, oh, I, I touch it once and it just flows off. It, it's a, it's a, a skill that you have to learn like any other skill.

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.

  coding agents

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  It’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Direct communication with customers matters more than small, incremental product tweaks.

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  That communication with the customer is more important than minimal, gradual improvement.

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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Design deliverables are no longer static assets or guidelines but tools: custom software that generates on-brand assets on demand.

  coding agents

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  But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.

  Design Tools Are The New Design Deliverableslukew.com

Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  Number Go Up

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  I didn't read much non-fiction this year, but the best of what I did read was Zeke Faux's Number Go Up about the cryptocurrency bubble. This book will not change anyone's mind, but it's a readable and entertaining summary of some of the more obvious cryptocurrency scams. I also had enough quibbles with it to write an extended review, which is a compliment of sorts.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Running coding agents without approval prompts is a normalization-of-deviance risk: the fact that it has not caused a disaster yet is itself the problem.

  coding agents

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  I run in YOLO mode all the time, despite being deeply aware of the risks involved. It hasn’t burned me yet... ... and that’s the problem.

  2025: The year in LLMssimonwillison.net

Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  A Little History of the World

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  This was probably my favorite book of the year. Gombrich wrote it in six weeks at age 26, aiming to explain world history to children. The result is remarkably readable.

  arslan.io

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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  Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

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  A very good and readable book on this interaction, with excellent discussions of Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, La Monte Young, and Penderecki, among many others.

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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  Our Dollar, Your Problem

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  This book manages to pull all of that together in a way that's genuinely readable and engaging, helped along by anecdotes from his own policymaking experience that both clarify the arguments and make them feel concrete and accessible to a much broader audience.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Letters From an Imaginary Country

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  Theodora Goss's latest book of short stories is 'Letters From an Imaginary Country,' and it manages to be one of the most voraciously, delightfully readable books I've ever read and it's one of the most writerly books, too. What a treat!

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  The industry is pretending today's coding agents are amazing when what they produce is slop, and some of that pretending is fundraising.

  coding agents

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  And I kind of feel like the industry it's it's um it's over it's it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend like this is amazing and it's not. It's slop and I think they're not coming to terms with it and maybe they're trying to fund raise or something like that.

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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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  Claude Code

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  TL;DR: Ghostty + Claude Code + minimal tooling = maximum productivity.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  The most powerful rule for an exceptional interface is that it feels obvious to use; novelty, minimalism and simplicity are means to that, not the end.

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  Sometimes designers will go to great lengths to make a user interface novel, or minimal, or simple. This is the wrong goal. Novelty, minimalism or simplicity are good heuristics for obviousness, but do not mistake the means for the end.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  The Iliad: A New Translation

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  It's very readable, and captures a sense of what is, fundamentally, a very alien, and often ugly, story in a very alien, and often ugly, world, related in magnificent language.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  LLMs will push software development toward more specialized code, fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.

  LLMs

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  So I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.

  How I program with LLMscrawshaw.io

Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Maya hieroglyphs must have been readable across several spoken languages, the way Chinese characters or Latin were.

  EuropeChina

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  There must have been a way that multiple languages understood the same writing system. Or maybe there was something like Latin. You know how there was a period in Europe where most people were illiterate and there was this priesthood who all understood Latin and they wrote in Latin? Maybe the hieroglyphs represent a kind of Latin in the ancient Maya world.

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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.

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  The practical impact is that the vast majority of one-on-one Telegram conversations — and literally every single group chat — are probably visible on Telegram’s servers, which can see and record the content of all messages sent between users.

  Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineers

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  In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  As models get better at following instructions, techniques like finetuning and constrained sampling for structured outputs will become less necessary

  Their words

  I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.

  huyenchip.com

Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.

  energy

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  Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.

  Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site

Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030

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  It's mostly readable, though there are quite a few places where the translator calls for more research and this reprint, naturally, doesn't say whether it's been followed up *. In any event, I found this fascinating.

  bactra.org

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  The Linux Programming Interface

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  The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.

  jvns.ca

Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

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  Absolutely. It is incredibly enjoyable and readable. The authors, in a way that is very rare for economists, find small stories that paint big pictures for the points they make.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

From one piece Write plain text files 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Everything you write that matters belongs in plain text files, because they are the only format that stays portable, non-commercial and readable for a lifetime.

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  That's why I only use plain text files. They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option.

  Write plain text filessive.rs

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  Plain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet.

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  Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text.

  Write plain text filessive.rs

Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

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  Occasionally suspending your trust in everyone and digging into one question as deeply as you can is the single most formative thing you can do for how you think.

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  Minimal-trust investigation is probably the single activity that's been most formative for the way I think.

  cold-takes.com

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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  The Startup Owner's Manual

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  This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.

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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.

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  suckless tools

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  Suckless offers an alternative to this continuous cycle of bloat and meaningless redesign. Suckless tools aim to keep things simple, minimal, usable and hackable by default.

  xeiaso.net

President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.

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  KDE/Plasma

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  My desktop is KDE/Plasma, tweaked to a minimal state, with very few widgets.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  How to Read Lacan

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  Despite being very readable, this book never really came together.

  slatestarcodex.com

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.

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  The Art of Readable Code

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  What I liked about this book is that it gives you a series of techniques to make that smell go away.

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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.

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  Adium

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  I use Adium for chat, because you can make it v. minimal, but Google's crippling of XMPP has made less useful and I have to use Gchat as well.

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British writer of biography and intellectual history; author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, At the Existentialist Cafe and Humanly Possible.

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  Nausea

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  I chose Nausea for several reasons. One is that it's the first existentialist book that I ever read. It's what first made me curious to learn more, and that's exactly what the book does. It's readable, it's powerful, it's sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it's intense.

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Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

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  Terminal.app

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  I use Zsh in the fantastically minimal Terminal.app.

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British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.

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  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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  But the truth is that it remains incredibly readable. As I said before, it takes Tacitus as its model, who was famous for his waspish style, and a careful balancing and modulating of the sentences so that irony would be generated. This is what Gibbon does as well, and it means that not only is it an incredible work of scholarship but it is also compulsively entertaining. I really think that anyone who is prepared to give it a chance will find themselves smiling at the very least throughout it.

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