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• MCP vs CLI for LLMs is the wrong discussion. People are debating at the wrong layer. Both work incredibly well as long as they are run through a repl like environment that can persist state. The funny thing about CLI is that CLI tools are usually accessed through BASH which happens to be a repl with persistent state (the file system), therefore cli works much better than mcp. But this isn't even close to being an intrinsic property of MCP. Just means that we need better harnesses. Right now the best repl for this are: - bash + fs - jupyter kernels - codemode type repls, usually quickjs LLMs u…

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• Re the whole business about LLM “pain” 👇🏽
  Quoting@GaryMarcus🚨 Breaking: Roget’s Thesaurus clusters words for pain together! And it even separates out words for physical pain from the rest! Could it be … conscious?

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• 1/ This new preprint on 'pain representation' in LLMs, from @camhberg and colleagues, is getting a LOT of attention - mainly from folks who take it as evidence supporting calls for AI welfare. I have a lot of respect for the authors, so let's take a look 👀

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• GitHubtools — Assorted useful tools, almost entirely generated using LLMs

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• 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.

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• 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/

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• 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.
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• Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems

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• If you want to see an example on how having the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you; It took the Claude Code team 16 months LONGER (!!) to add support for AGENTS.md than OpenCode & Codex, 12 more vs Cursor
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• 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.

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• A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs.

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• 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…

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• 🫟 Inklings 📆 September 18, 2026 • Meta's Camera-Less Glasses • Apple's Surveillance • Claude Unifies • Prime Bundles • Dario Writes • Bond, Jack Bond

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• 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

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• and all it took was to add a proper extension system to claude code (sorry thariq, could not resist :D)
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• From a talk I gave at an Antithesis meetup in NYC, thoughts on software quality in the age of LLMs.

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• 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.

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• 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]
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• I don't like LLMs

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• unstable government: jev + claude type a terrible law. claude invents reactions and directs the set pieces. jev decides how each of 40 citizens responds. the town sim plays those choices out, then prints the disaster as tomorrow’s front page. fun.

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• Pretty incredible how the skills repo by @mattpocockuk is only 6 months old, and has more stars than the React one. We had to sit down and talk. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:48 How Matt got into tech 10:14 How Matt got into open source 12:58 Joining Vercel 18:39 Total TypeScript 23:21 AI’s impact on technical education 30:32 Building reusable skills for AI coding agents 40:46 The “smart zone” vs the “dumb zone” 45:02 The wayfinder skill 47:52 Why agents excel at software engineering 50:54 “Leading words” 1:01:10 Learning the fundamentals 1:09:17 Local vs. cloud agents 1:12:36 Planning vs. cours…

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• Sensible stuff from @mustafasuleyman on @BBCr4today just now. Useful pushback against the notion that AI systems like Claude might be conscious, and therefore deserving of welfare/rights. Importantly, the view that LLMs might be conscious and welfare-deserving is being deliberately embedded in @AnthropicAI's Claude via its 'constitution' (https://t.co/g3evrUH80x) - so its no surprise that they behave in this way. He also says we don't need AIs to introspect, and in doing so give the impression of being conscious (or being moral patients) in order to benefit from all the upsides. This is plaus…

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• The Harness Margin Opportunity

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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@unherdClaude: 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…

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• 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.
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• 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:

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• 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.

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• The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude

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• 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…

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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

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• 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

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• I am very bullish on memoirish writing. No one wants generic how to writing anymore. You’re indistinguishable from an LLM
  Quoting@p_millerdThis 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

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• 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

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• BlueskyStill 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.

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• x.comStill 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.

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• China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic. "This 'silent AI Cold War' is hypocritical and short-sighted," adding that excluding China from global AI innovation would "significantly increase the trial-and-error costs and risks of loss of ‌control in global AI development".

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• China's approach to "AI safety" is open source. "China will be a pioneer in establishing a BRICS AI open source community, support the cooperation in developing and applying large language models, hold specialized AI seminars and training courses, and build an open ecosystem for AI." Chinese President Xi Jinping, delivered in his address at the BRICS Summit in New Delhi. SEPTEMBER 13, 2026

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• 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

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• Using AI for Weapons Development

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• Global AI stocks fell today. Entirely consistent with my view that calls for AI safety are not an attempt at "regulatory capture" and entirely inconsistent with the supposedly cynic-sophisticated view that AI fears are all 4D chess moves for higher revenue. On stocks falling. Here is Claude: The public tape moved hard this morning. Global AI stocks fell on Monday, with SoftBank down sharply along with chip stocks from SK Hynix to ASML, Micron and Intel. SoftBank closed nearly 11% lower in Japan, the Kospi sank 3.3% on a 6.4% drop in SK Hynix, and ASML was off 6% in Europe. In the US, Marvell,…

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• 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@davidbessisOn 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.

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• 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

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• 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:

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• 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…

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• x.comReasoning 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…

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• SiteAI Reasoning Models Course on LinkedIn Learning

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• 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.

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• 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

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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@BenioffWelcome 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.

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• “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.” Dario makes the case to stop open source and concentrate enormous technological and economic power with Anthropic.

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• wrap — Run coding agents and project commands inside isolated Arch Linux microVMs

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

• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)

  Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales v Britannica's EiC; Ho…

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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

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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.

• Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

  The power of science is staggering! Every day we're making new advancements in the field of generative artificial intelligence via judicious application of large language model inference technology. However, as we appro…

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

• Writing in 2026 and Claude Voice:

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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.

• 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.

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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.

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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:

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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@bchernyHey ████, 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…

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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• bun + anthropic migrating to coffeescript
  Quoting@jashkenasHello 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!

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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.

• The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes

  These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.

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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.

• What should be obvious is that inference, running a large language model, is the part that has to be cheap. Most of our hardware was not designed for that. LLM inference is limited by bandwidth. You do a great many matrix-vector multiplications against a huge weight matrix, and you barely reuse those weights. It is closer to streaming a video than to running a simulation or drawing a scene in a game. Graphics processors from Nvidia and others were built for something else. They pileed compute first, then bolted on high-bandwidth memory. It is expensive. An obvious answer is to invert the desi…

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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…

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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.

• Sound like many employees at Anthropic share Jacob's POV, as many posted yesterday that (1) they agree, and (2) said that many more inside the company do also. It would be useful to name this "belief system" so that we can talk about it in a reasonable way. I suspect "doomer" seems derogatory, and "accelerationist" has others uses. If there a word we can use so that we can have proper discourse? I'm very serious. I think it would be helpful.

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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.

• omfg Qwen, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek looks like they are all just claude
  Quoting@AnthropicAIWe're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons…

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• when claude kept going down, anthropic defended it as "too much demand" now the same demand explosion happens to openai, and they just showed how it's done by taking the steps to protect their customers look back on ant - was it too much demand or too much greed?
  Quoting@thsottiauxTo make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible. All…

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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).

• Nice showcase that interesting LLM work can be done on single GPU!
  Quoting@gpjtI extended the GPT-2-style code from @rasbt's "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)" so that it was a 6-expert (2 active) mixture-of-experts, and trained it from scratch over 8 days. It worked well! Full writeup with maths and code at

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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.

• another implication of AI manifesting in real world engineering react native existed for a single reason which was to reduce the development and maintenance cost of multi-platform mobile apps. they allow you to write a single codebase (kind of) that can work on both ios and android, with a tech stack that many web devs are already familiar with but with AI being particularly good at mechanically repeating something that already exists, replicating one platform's implementation to another has become trivial in general LLMs can write a ton of code at very low cost, especially when there's a sou…

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• if you're getting hit with openai/anthropic security guardrails, try starting the session with an open weight model and then switch to the other.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

• Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.

  Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant ...

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

• Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.

  Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he ​explained on X​: “[OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our ...

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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.

• i've started getting a lot of emails (maybe one every few days) that appear to be LLM generated from people asking for some kind of feedback or collaboration on their LLM-generated app feels sad because I used to like it when people emailed me about something cool they made and now I just have to send it all straight to spam

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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.

• It's a common agreement among my friends not at OpenAI/Anthropic that people at the labs operate with a religious energy (Ant especially). It manifests very out of touch interactions, which carries into public comms here (e.g the recent quitting). Company cultures create this.

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

• The old quote that "computers are useless, they can only give you answers" seems to extend to an LLM solution to a millennium problem. Now we have a blowup in Navier–Stokes equations, but no new insights into mathematical technique or turbulence.

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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

• Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic

  Lots to consider

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

• I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout. Initially we believed the other team had also solved the problem. We wanted to collaborate and do a joint release. When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof. We felt it was challenging to offer the same to Levent (an Anthropic employee), who was not willing to talk or…
  Quoting@SebastienBubeckI would like to clarify a few things: 1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it’s clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentions. 2) I never ever asked for Levent to be removed from authorship of his own work (as indicated by my t…

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Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.

• Trivially share markdown. Pi, Amp, Claude, and chatbox integrations. Agents can now share markdown via privacy-preserving URL (with other agents or people). This maps to a constant pattern where I generate a markdown doc, copy to my buffer, paste into gist.github.com and share

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

• Large parameter lists that rely on positional string arguments are a weak interface for both humans and coding agents. Yet they’re just a symptom. More often than not, the root cause is a function that does way too much. In my new post, I explore the problem and walk through a refactoring that encapsulates data and behavior in explicit domain concepts.

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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.

• Anthropic Just Committed $80B in Five Days. Here Is Who It Is Renting From.

  AI’s appetite for specialized chips, power, and speed created an opening for a new kind of cloud. Learn with me below...

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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.

• Today in The Diff, an idea I've been kicking around for a bit: LLMs make us better-informed but less calibrated.

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Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.

• AUTODESIGNING PPTX: While trying to understand the new @github HydraFusion Project https://t.co/B03qBEWQQK I made my seventh attempt at a bespoke, and on-brand, PPTX deck tool for my brother @mariorod1 to cook with as a custom GitHub Copilot Canvas. It's getting an awfully lot easier to work within Swiss typographic grids in "creative" ways that make the literal roll of the dice satisfyingly fast without making so many LLM calls. Next, I'm looking forward to adding all the interesting GEPA and GRPO stuff that will enable compounding learning capabilities. —JM --- Cozy AI Recipe: - I pointed G…

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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.

• Huh, I was at Apple.com and glanced at the Mac Studio page - https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ - I notice they're explicitly pitching it for LLM on the desktop. I wonder how realistic that is… Hmm, let’s ask @simon, he’s closer to this stuff than most of us. I’m pretty convinced that irrespective of all the issues, the economics of #genAI just don’t work with the current compute infrastructure requirements. Open models and what’s left of Moore’s law could be a really big deal. #apple

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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

• LLMs were invented to navigate sites like this

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

• claude-cloud-init — CLI tool to initialize Claude Cloud environment with recommended git config, gitignore rules, and skill templates

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin.

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Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.

• tgterm — Control your MacOS terminals via Telegram, for fun coding agents interaction and profit

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

• Interesting details in here about how OpenAI researchers are using coding agents I'd love to know what caused the huge uptick in token spend in mid-July, was that when Astra became available to employees?
  Quoting@kliu128Today we're releasing data on models accelerating research at OpenAI. Recursive self-improvement could be the most important contributor to AI capabilities over the next few years, but by default it will only be seen inside a few frontier AI labs. Being transparent is more urgent than ever, so we c…

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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 2: In this video, I cover the text generation process in LLMs and KV caching (to prepare the base model before adding reasoning techniques in the upcoming ones). 00:00 Introduction and reasoning model demo 01:55 How to work through the book 05:00 Chapter 2 overview 08:25 Checking PyTorch and hardware support 10:26 Apple silicon and MPS caveats 15:00 Cloud GPU options 16:08 Tokens and tokenization 18:20 Qwen3 and the Reasoning From Scratch package 23:05 Encoding and decoding text 26:24 Downloading weights and selecting a device 31:01 Loading the pretrained Qwen3 mo…

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

• agent-stuff — These are commands I use with agents, mostly Claude

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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.

• What’s the problem w using LLMs to write stuff you want other people to read -emails, articles, posts- and why are people (like me!) so incredibly hostile that they will block you/mute you/block your domain, to never read anything from you again? Bryan spells it out. Read it:
  Quoting@bcantrill.bsky.socialYour intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...

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Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.

• DRAWING IS THINKING: The Bauhaus ▲⏹⏺ has always haunted me. A day of drawing (w/o the help of LLMs) helped me see that most everything to do with design can be encapsulated into those forms. The ▲ holds the essence of effective design; the ⏹ holds the shape of product simplicity; the ⏺ holds the winding cycle of the infinite journey. I'll elaborate on these figures in the 2027 https://t.co/0Y1PdIFenb —JM

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). No more application passwords!

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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

• Model companies buy electricity by the megawatt and resell it as cognitive work. Anthropic's revenue has run as high as $50m per megawatt, against $10-15m of compute.

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Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.

• vscode-agent-frame — See which of your coding agents are working, waiting, or idle at a glance — Agent Frame colors the VS Code window to match.

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Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?

• i appreciate claude telling me “sleep well” after i gave it my final instructions for its overnight tasks

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

• sorry for the radio silence folks - got sucked into extreme LLM psychosis. but i can confidently say we have crossed over into a new age of AI Engineering and we are never, ever, looking back. this isnt even EVERYTHING i did with Astra but i'll append more reports as I publish them on LS!
  Quoting@latentspacepodWe spent >20B tokens throwing @openai's Astra at every AI Engineering task we could think of, beyond cute Blender demos and fun games. https://t.co/QoW6YBybA4 Here's everything Astra can do, and do so at <$6 an hour (serious): - choose and train models - label data (both helping you label and then…

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

• First thing this morning, pre-coffee, btw, I just yapped this prompt into my Claude Code session. 20 minutes later, after running a few diagnostic SQL queries on a prod replica, a 15min+ query is now running in 375ms. Hook up your APM and error trackers, y'all.

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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.

• If both xAI and Claude are down, does that mean the Colossus GPU farm is down?

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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.

• Yesterday I worked for ~20hs with my agents using Cursor and Claude and when I moved to sleep time I turned on the "autonomous" skill to all my agents. Today, checking the work done, almost 40% was blocked because reasons and when I ask they say "Sorry, my work was left unfinished..." Weird... computation outage?

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Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.

• How Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom

  Vision-language-action models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.

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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.

• An increasingly common pattern in my boring-administrivia workflows is creating a new folder with an inbox/ or unsorted/ subfolder, starting a Claude Code instance, and telling it "Watch that for changes, read incoming files, rename and organize into a directory structure."

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British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.

• llm naming inflation is out of control. Astra and Mythos pretty much maxing out in terms of scale, I mean where do you go from there

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Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.

• So, what happened to my Claude Code series?

  I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And then… I didn’t manage to. In some ways, this is because I have just been super busy! I’ve never had less free time, and I’m…

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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

• Fragments: September 1

  Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of…

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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.

• LLM having an "aha" moment. If we wanted to deanthropomorphize we could call it a "cascade."
  Quoting@unclebobmartinThe deeper you go with the agents, the more they invent their own vocabulary to talk about issues. That vocabulary is based on their own implementations. They use function and field names that you are likely not familiar with. Don't gloss over this. Ask for explanations in plain language. Get the a…

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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.

• Come for the book review, stay for the LLM making pro-user moves to undermine its content policy controls.
  Quoting@robinhanson"There was nothing special about the mass sacrifices atop the pyramids, they were just one of the gaudiest and costliest outgrowths of a sensibility that pervaded Mexica society."

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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).

• ai-detector-from-scratch — End-to-end project training and building AI models / LLMs to detect AI-written text

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Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.

• PDE BLEND CALCULATOR: If you’ve been feeling an identity reset in the AI era, this app https://t.co/2dYeejnkpJ is designed to give you clearer language for that transition. It uses the three letters P, D, and E along with lowercase and null ( - ) variants to map the many role “smoothies” emerging across product, design, and engineering. The classic ideal has been a balanced P-D-E, but that balance is getting harder as the shape of E changes rapidly in the age of coding agents. The good news: you can always raise your vitamin P! —JM --- This app https://t.co/2dYeejnkpJ from the 2026

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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.

• 🎙️ How I AI: How this PM uses Claude to handle 70% to 80% of his workday

  Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network

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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.

• I am an occasion fan of genre fiction, which sometimes has me perusing very deep in the stacks at Amazon. Took a flyer on an author who will remain nameless. He’s presently pumping out about a book a month in a single series, and by he, I mean an LLM/human team.

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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.

• La suscripción de 5x viene rindiendo, pero no estoy seguro si con el cambio del -17.5% de sesión vaya a estar bien. Pensando en probar Codex, veo a todos disfrutando de esa fiesta. Estamos en un mundo donde estar Token Maxing con una suscripción dejó de ser suficiente, ahora necesito 3 (Claude, Cursor y al parecer también Codex). 💸

  English, from SpanishThe 5x subscription is paying off, but I'm not sure if with the change of the -17.5% session it will be okay. Thinking about trying Codex, I see everyone enjoying that party. We're in a world where Token Maxing with one subscription is no longer enough, now I need 3 (Claude, Cursor, and apparently Codex too). 💸

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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.

• It's worth noting that the "Responsible Use of Generative AI" which #Debian voted to accept was largely generated by an LLM.

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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.

• Anthropic’s $30 Trillion Moonshot

  A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

• Screenshot diffing, feedback inboxes, PWAs, and of course local-first sync layer with self-hosted backend. Matches up pretty well with my approach on personal apps thus far into the LLM coding age. Curious to hear from others.
  Quoting@flourish.orgI vibe coded three personal apps that I'd wanted for a while. They work on mobile and web, sync offline first between them, and are polished. This write up describes why, how, and what I learnt. www.flourish.org/2026/08/pers...

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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).

• SiteReasoning Models From Scratch: Code Setup

  A short video on how conventional LLMs relate to reasoning models and agents, along with Python and PyTorch setup using uv.

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• x.comA little video that - explains the relationship between conventional LLMs and reasoning models (and agents), - philosophizes a about "from scratch" approaches, - and explains how to install Python & PyTorch requirements with uv.

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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.

• I Think LLMs Will Prove to Be Consequential Enterprise Software

  but that’s not enough, is it?

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Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.

• ShortCan LLMs write better code than humans?

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

• AI struggles to make creative leaps. Large language models are trained on data from the past. Original thinking involves recognizing novel patterns in the future. Long live human ingenuity.

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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.

• Little Bits of Intelligence

  Big AI models like ChatGPT and Claude get all the attention, but the continually increasing amount of fast, low cost models means today's software can embed little bits of intelligence anywhere they're needed. And when…

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

• I've been trying to figure out what I (and so many others) dislike about AI writing. It's very clear. It's good at getting the level right, not going over the reader's head but not talking down. Often it's clever, and sometimes even funny. (At least Claude is) ...

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• A really interesting thread generally from @swtch.com -- and fascinating to watch Claude (correctly) do the archaeology. Confession: Claude's inability to verify www.illumos.org/issues/4627 (which it correctly identified as the bug) has me questioning the anti-bot provisions on the bug database...
  Quoting@swtch.comGo issue #78438 was another net/http test flake. This one turned out to be Go tripping over a Solaris kernel bug that predates the Illumos fork. @bcantrill.bsky.social fixed it in 2014! Hurry up, Oracle! research.swtch.com/agentlogs/so...

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