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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.

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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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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  Elaborate agent scaffolding is unnecessary: a task plus a way to check the output is enough to keep a model working for weeks.

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  You don't need slash goal, you don't need slash loop. These help, but really all you need is give the model the task, give it a way to verify the output of its work so it doesn't get stuck, and it will just go.

  Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com

Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  In an intellectually dead research field, feeding AI decades of meaningless work only produces more meaningless output.

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  in an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.

  Requiem for a Field?math.columbia.edu

Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Positions of genuine respect are earned rather than granted undeservedly.

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  Almost nobody reaches a position of real respect undeservedly. Famous buffoons don't get respect from the people they really want it from, just sycophants whose praise is meaningless.

  You can judge a book by its coversashachapin.substack.com

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

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  A company that stops hiring new graduates because AI makes juniors look unnecessary will have no senior engineers in a few years' time.

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  the best of the best still get offer from us because if we don't hire those folks today, what senior engineer will we have for yeah years from now, right? You have to feed the talent pipeline

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

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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  The idea that AI will destroy software and make tools unnecessary is ridiculous: an agent, like a humanoid in your kitchen, will use the tools that already exist.

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  You know, a lot of people would say, "You know AI is gonna completely destroy software. We don't need software anymore. We don't even need tools anymore." That's ridiculous.

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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  The share of American teenagers who say that life often feels meaningless surged as Gen Z entered adolescence.

  America

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  But as soon as Gen Z entered the dataset, around 2013, meaninglessness surged.

  The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generationafterbabel.com

Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.

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  There was no "Dark Ages": the term described gaps in the surviving sources, and its popular use is not a live scholarly position but a settled error.

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  Further, the fact that there is no such thing as a ‘Dark Ages’ and that a term we used for source survival has escaped containment and been rendered meaningless by a bunch of poorly read self-congratulatory dolts is, in fact, what we call ‘settled academic fact’.

  On contrarian historygoing-medieval.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Extensive preparation before having kids is unnecessary since parents have months to adjust as needs arise.

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  This is part of why I think "getting ready" to have kids is, frankly, ridiculous.

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  Forgetting names is not a defect of memory: a name is an arbitrary label with nothing to attach it to, and arbitrary material is exactly what brains are worst at.

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  For the most part, it’s like these names are just utterly arbitrary, so you have no thing to latch on to. It’s not really a thing that our brain does very well to learn meaningless, arbitrary stuff. So what you need to do is build connections somehow, visualize a connection, and sometimes it’s obvious or sometimes it’s not.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Ten billion dollars over ten years would deliver most of a list of missing life-saving health technologies, so their absence is a funding choice rather than a scientific limit.

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  With an extra $10 billion over 10 years I’m pretty sure we’d get to 5 or 6 of the 10 on the list, and millions of unnecessary deaths would be prevented.

  10 technologies that won't exist in 5 yearsblog.jacobtrefethen.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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  After Schumpeter wrote, most recessions were caused by bursting asset price bubbles, monetary policy mistakes, or sharp oil price increases.

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  As it turns out, after Schumpeter wrote most recessions were caused by either the bursting of asset price bubbles, monetary policy mistakes (unnecessary deflations), or sharp increases in the price of oil.

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Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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  Mechanising the imagination commodifies the human spirit, because it makes a person's own part in making things look valueless.

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  ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary.

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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Unnecessary code is a burden that makes a codebase harder to change

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  Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.

  Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com

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.

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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.

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  Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.

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  These programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.

  Digital pollutionsive.rs

Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Apple Pro Display XDR

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  The display is absolutely gorgeous and has all the space I need so I love it, but this thing is designed for professional film production so a lot of the features I'm paying for with this thing are totally unnecessary for me.

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