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20 September
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
"The artist is believed to be Trish Duggan, a major Trump donor. The center declined to comment. Ms. Duggan did not respond to multiple requests for comment." Quoting @donmoyn.bsky.social It's supposed to be an arts center, they have been removing actual artwork and replacing it with this propaganda kitsch. 2/2 Related
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.
18 September
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
i had fable doing some inference optimization work, it was making a ton of progress then it realized what it was doing and started to reject my requests so i switched to astra and told it to spawn fable subagents to do the work back in business Related
17 September
Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.
occurs to me that plastic surgeons are probably going to see an increase in requests to alter faces to meet AI image standards. Both because people use the tools to brainstorm the surgeries they want, and also because AI images are proliferating in public consciousness Related
16 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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Agent-generated PRs have exploded in size. 9x the last 8 months (!!) No signs of slowing down.
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15 September
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
10 September
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
9 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
One very visible effect of AI this summer has been a large influx of bug fixes. In some sense, it is the opposite of AI slop. I manage widely deployed libraries and, in some cases, the number of pull requests has been doubled. In the simdjson library, I merged 92 pull requests in 2024, I am at 134 thus far. In many instances, AI found long standing well hidden bugs. It makes me happy because I dislike bugs. But this puts stress on people packaging and distributing these libraries. Sadly, I have also never received so many pull requests that I have not merged. For simdjson, I received 219 pull… Related
6 September
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.
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram…
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5 September
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
An interface is an abstraction implemented in code. Use it long enough and you learn to think through it. From Pokémon to GUIs to Requests: what are our tools teaching us to become better at? kennethreitz.org
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4 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
OpenAI
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It looks to me like OpenAI’s sandbox for this agent suffered from the (quite naïve) assumption that GET requests cannot be used to update data. That’s certainly how the web is supposed to work, but clearly there are applications that don’t hold to that contract.
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1 September
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Fable 5.1 is a thoughtful collaborator, thinking hard about my requests, proactively patching my blindspots, and verifying the work's correct without being asked. And with cache reads now costing 75% less, to $0.25/M tokens, huge savings for long-running, agentic tasks! Quoting @claudeai We’re introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Related
31 August
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
„With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of https://t.co/kEtDwEFcYq traffic — everything else are scrapers.“ Yeah this checks out. Anyone who has valuable data on their public site will have seen this. It’s horrendous. people.kernel.org
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28 August
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
These days projects at @linear often start with 100+ customer requests and feedback. This is all automatically collected from sales and other customer interactions with Loops. Quoting @linear The best product feedback is often buried in sales calls. Our product team uses Loops to automatically capture, synthesize, and review those conversations to surface the ones they care about most. Related
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
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But it actually means that if you take the median programmer and their pull requests towards an average open source project, they're already getting outclassed by agents. I would rather get an agent-written pull request to one of my projects than I'd get one written by a human, and it's not just because the quality's better. It's also because I feel a lot less bad if I just reject it.
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So, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to tap into a creativity of people who did not have access to contribute to a project before.
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19 August
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
18 August
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Before releasing Cargo earlier this year, I thought I was gonna hire someone to help me keep up with bugs & feature requests. Today, I barely look at bug reports. I point Claude at the issue, it opens a PR, and after a quick review I ship it. 🚀 Anthropic Related
17 August
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Requests installations via PyPi continue to increase, at over 732.48 downloads / second today. Related
12 August
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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It's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway
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9 August
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
31 July
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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And so, every, you know, every week, we had actual customer feedback, requests, new users coming in. We're learning things from reality as opposed to our own kind of hypothesized or extrapolated conception of it.
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24 July
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
data center road trip // day 6-7 I don't think the data center backlash is about AI being evil or risky — but it does reflect people finding AI uniquely useless for example: is the data center backlash just like the backlash to solar farms? @nicholas_bagley observed that both movements use classic NIMBY playbooks: Facebook groups, FOIA requests, packing city council. both also involve land use tensions between rural towns and state directives. yet the Saline, MI activists I met were pro-solar farms and anti-data center. first, data center deals are more secretive with more NDAs and bigger $$… Quoting @jasminewsun I’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiting sites, talking to tons of people — tradespeople, activists, planners, residents — then writing up a story lmk what questions I should dig into! solar data centers Related
4 June
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
My pie-in-the-sky requests for @CloudflareDev to overhaul corporate web dev: * Fully hosted private Git + CI + "Pull Requests" * Playwright end-to-end test running and result collection * Storybook hosting + shapshot comparisons * Private NPM package registry hosting Related
24 May
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
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And what you see when we work with them internally is now they're just like they're just making pull pull requests. Like they don't they don't need to hand it off as much. Sometimes they do but like a lot of times they just make pull requests and it's like the thing is built and that's it and I think that's incredible for the way that companies work
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11 April
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
2 April
Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.
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The way that I use this daemon is that I run it on NixOS as a service, accepting requests on port 6000.
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19 March
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
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12 February
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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Many times, I just do the refactor because refactors are cheap now. Even though you might break some other PRs, nothing really matters anymore.
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9 February
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
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Netlify - To preview my pull requests
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7 January
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
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One of the most common requests I receive is for resources to become a better storyteller. In this book, award-winning novelist Will Storr looks at how the brain responds to stories, and how to captivate your audience and connect with their emotions.
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bringthedonuts.com
4 December 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
13 November 2025
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
One of the most interesting recent privacy developments is the deployment of big two-hop IP blinding VPNs by companies like Apple and Google. These systems are designed to ensure that even those companies can’t link web requests to IP addresses. Google Related
21 August 2025
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
20 August 2025
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
7 August 2023
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.
Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or…
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9 May 2023
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
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Petey
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The app costs a few dollars up front and then has an optional subscription for unlimited requests, but I would recommend going directly to OpenAI’s developer dashboard, creating your own account, and copy/pasting your own API key into Petey.
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thesweetsetup.com
27 August 2022
Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.
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