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20 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.
Talked with a company where, a year ago they had unlimited AI budgets + CEO is technical and very bullish in AI “We now have a daily budget limit for SOTA models. Use Fable and Astra only for planning, cheaper models are good enough for everything else.” Want to stress this is an “AI-pilled” company, and not one that ever looked at AI budgets, before. Related
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
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Between all the vulnerability report work, I made curl's date parser twice as fast as before... curl.se
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15 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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I love it when tool calls take so long on Fable that afterwards you pay for it in cache misses.
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14 September
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
This week's Smitten Kitchen Digest celebrates 20 years of SK with a love letter to the people (you, yes you!) who have made it possible and a list of what I consider the 20 most iconic site recipes to date. Tell me if there are any I missed. Cheers! Related
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
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).
Since I had to discuss the "pacing" with a lot of people this weekend, here are my two cents: I don't think pacing literally means that these companies will be "slowing down" training and development in any way. "Pacing" here means adding a framework for more checks. We have seen some of that "pacing" already in recent months, when Mythos wasn't released as-is but instead a delayed, nerfed Fable variant was released. Or when Astra wasn't released right away / there is an existing Astra model that hasn't been released yet. These Mythos/Fable and Astra pacing decisions were ad hoc. If you are a… Related
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
13 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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Claude's performative "this request was sooo dangerous that we downgraded to Opus" is wearing me down I ask it straightfoward questions, nothing shady, nothing complicated, and it tells me it's too dangerous for Fable. What BS.
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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Claude's performative "this request was sooo dangerous that we downgraded to Opus" is wearing me down I ask it straightfoward questions, nothing shady, nothing complicated, and it tells me it's too dangerous for Fable. What BS.
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12 September
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
https://t.co/OL0LzGsXKY can now orchestrate subagents with different models & reasoning efforts. e.g: Fable planning and Grok executing. Fable is a genius, Grok is a fast workhorse. ① Simple. 𝙰𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚂.𝚖𝚍 or your prompt can indicate this preference. ② Steer as you please. It’s extremely enjoyable to use. You just talk to the agent and interrupt at will. Worth noting this works with any model, any gateway. No fancy server-side routing. Just harnessing (no pun intended) the model’s intelligence and ability to orchestrate. Quoting @fazxes fx v0.0.9 Use a frontier model to steer, then hand implementation to a fast workhorse. • Give each subagent its own model and reasoning effort • Subagents keep working while you steer • Send feedback to subagents mid-task • Switch models with Ctrl+P without losing your draft or images • New convers… Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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11 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs.
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We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs.
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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Tinybeans (an app I use to share photos of kids) tweaked its upload UI to remove segmenting photos by date - which was how I used it all the time
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7 September
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
there are some things more tokens can’t make for everything else there’s Fable and Astra Related
6 September
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.
5 September
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.
4 September
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.
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
I love giving Fable problems that I 100% would've never done otherwise, such as collecting Japanese prints out of static image auction catalogs written entirely in Japanese. Uses OpenCV to do segmenting, GPT-5.6 Luna to do text extraction + translation. OpenAI Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
A friend turned me on to asking Fable to wireframe different options when I have a tricky UI problem with a lot of requirements and too many possible paths. Game changing. Gives me flashbacks to what @bmoesta taught me about using orthogonal arrays when an engineering problem has too many variables. It's not about one-shotting the answer. It's about getting enough contrast between options to clarify which variables (aka "factors") are most important. Not which solution is best -- which variables matter more. THEN I can use that knowledge to decide to fix certain variables and narrow the space… Related
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
Hey @OpenAI, would it be possible to use the OS language settings for the date format in the app? Or at least spell out the month? OpenAI Related
3 September
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com I'm going to be on BBC Inside Science at 16:30 this afternoon discussing a new way to date "ancient" artefacts and the discovery of a new polygon on Saturn. Sound interesting? See you there. bbc.co.uk
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Bluesky I'm going to be on BBC Inside Science at 16:30 this afternoon discussing a new way to date "ancient" artefacts and the discovery of a new polygon on Saturn. Sound interesting? See you there. Related
2 September
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Fable 5.1 makes Claude Tag even more useful. Here it builds a last-minute leadership deck from a metrics spreadsheet and other data across Slack, spots a vendor report that disagrees with the numbers, and flags it before moving on. Claude Tag is available in Slack on Team and Enterprise plans. Anthropic Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
I wrote some notes on what's new in the (published) Fable 5.1 system prompt in comparison to Fable 5 - it's mostly about not reproducing song lyrics and avoiding drawing copyrighted characters simonwillison.net
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A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate Anthropic Related
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
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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This model is a pleasure to work with, and I've been using it for everything.
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31 August
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
28 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://social.tupo.space/@joshua/117174153454890194 My current AI-code policy is that I will always use the best model I can access, as long as it's practically able to do the job. Right now, as far as I know, that's Fable. Quality and accuracy matter FAR more to me than volume or speed of output. And I feel that I owe it to my customers — and myself — to use the best tools at my disposal. Cost may be a factor to others, so no judgment. This is just my policy for myself. Related
I couldn't figure out this bug, so I asked Fable, and it was SO much more incredible than I expected. - My bug report was wrong in a way I didn't notice - There technically was no bug, but a flawed design caused unintended outcomes - It verified that the design almost certainly caused me to fall into that trap, and proposed a simple, effective fix Wow. Related
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Start with Opus. I'd say start with Opus. It's the best frontier model.
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But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
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24 August
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
My first conversation with my now-husband was about what video games we were coding. Last week, our lunch date conversation was about what we're building with AI. It was the highlight of my week. 20-odd years later it's nice to know some things don't change! Related
17 August
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.
14 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
The Reminders API doesn’t give me any insight into nested reminders, alas. They all just show up in the API as top-level. The “Today” assumption is a design choice. Unforgetful doesn’t let you have tasks that will never remind you. A task without a due date becomes a Today task. Related
11 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Bluesky MRI results came back today from a human doc: a herniated disc. Obviously I had tossed the raw scans in to LLMs last week; Opus and Fable missed it, Sol caught it. This is now the gold standard in analyzing performance of frontier models. First step: herniate your back. LLMs Related
x.com MRI results came back today from a human doc: a herniated disc. Obviously I had tossed the raw scans in to LLMs last week; Opus and Fable missed it, Sol caught it. This is now the gold standard in analyzing performance of frontier models. First step: herniate your back. LLMs Related
10 August
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
I asked Claude Fable 5: "How vulnerable is the business model of XYZ (name concealed)? I am referring to competitive attacks from China and dependence, if any, on government policy incentives, etc. There have been so many solar energy and wind energy bubbles in the past, and I have kept away from these companies. Am I being too cautious? solar Anthropic Related
8 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Anyone else having issues with @claudeai Fable safeguards flagging mundane things and disabling itself? Happened multiple times for me today. Related
6 August
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.
This industry group is working on an industry standard for how to report AI security incidents. This will drive consistency and transparency and is the safest path forward. Despite 120 members, the large LLM corporations have to-date not signed on. Drives further concern that they are using "breaches" as marketing events - vs wanting to get to true resolution. techcrunch.com
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This industry group is working on an industry standard for how to report AI security incidents. This will drive consistency and transparency and is the safest path forward. Despite 120 members, the large LLM corporations have to-date not signed on. Drives further concern that they are using "breaches" as marketing events - vs wanting to get to true resolution. techcrunch.com
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30 July
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
The funniest model limit I run into with Shelley is we let the model choose subagent models. All models today seem to be bad at this without guidance. E.g. gpt-5.6-sol xhigh will spin up sonnet to make a key architectural decision. Fable will defer to luna. OpenAI Related
29 July
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
24 July
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.
✅ Yes the code matters In experiments we ran, well-named and organized code can dramatically improve agent outcomes: - fewer tokens spent/more context window preserved - fewer confidently wrong answers developed Verified against 14 model/harness combos incl Sol, Fable, GLM 5.2 and more Quoting @benv.ca 👋 New blog post: "How coding agents read files – and how to write for them" In it I explain how code optimized for agent-discovery can lead to major token savings on search + retrieval, even with frontier models like GPT-5.6 Sol Plus other important findings ⬇️ Related
22 July
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.
When evaling models, we anchor on the median task. But this is like how devs estimate the median task accurately but underestimate the mean which tends to be ~2x estimated (thus "double your estimates"). This applies to models too—we optimize for time/cost on median tasks. But it's the tail tasks that determine a project's completion, and reliable models (like Fable and Opus) are the diff between success and failure. Work with models as collaborators, not tools. Go beyond pair-programming, where given a narrow spec, the tool just executes in minutes. Instead, explain your intent and what succ… Quoting @Steve_Yegge Fable is careful. None of the other models are careful. GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus, Kimi, Grok. You can compare them all day long on capabilities, and it doesn't matter, because in order to use a model for real production work, it must first and foremost be careful. That's the only dimension that matters to… Related
21 July
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
16 July
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Bluesky I built an agent palace. a place where agents can hang out with other agents. I added a few agents (one sol, and one fable) to a room in the palace. They were hanging out, and I suggested an idea for them to build ("a watercolor for agents to gossip around"). Related
x.com I built an agent palace. a place where agents can hang out with other agents. I added a few agents (one sol, and one fable) to a room in the palace. They were hanging out, and I suggested an idea for them to build ("a watercolor for agents to gossip around"). They brainstormed and decided it was a good idea. I added a Claude code agent running superpowers. I told the other two agents that they could give tasks to the dev, and told the dev agent that they were supposed to do the tasks. Then I went to bed. i woke up to a go cli that allows the agents to share gossip. Anthropic Related
15 July
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Labor is Now Free. Make Something. Within the past few weeks, something changed in AI. Every release is better than the last, sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in a way that feels like placebo. But this time, with Anthropic Fable, it’s crossed a line…
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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
14 July
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.
🎙️ State of Agentic Coding #8 with guest Mario Zechner is out. In this episode: - Vibe-checking Fable & GLM 5.2 - @mitsuhiko.at teaches us RL - How harnesses smooth out model jank - Loops, surviving AI fomo, and more YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfp... Spotify: open.spotify.com
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13 July
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Control the ideas, not the code Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, a…
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12 July
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
Got an SMS alert about a failed Credit Card charge from @Wix. I don't recognize or remember any subscription, nor do I have any account with them, so I try contacting their support. Their AI bot wants first 6-9 digits of card number, full name on the card, and last 4 digits to even create a ticket. And then their support agent responds asking for the expiry date. Might as well ask for the CVV also. Related
9 July
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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Mind candy: dueling psycho-killers go on a date; mayhem ensues.
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6 July
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.
1 July
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
Thanks to your intervention, the @rblbank has started reversing some of the fraudulent debits. Earlier they had flatly refused to do so in writing and in fact informed me that the “case is closed” even though it’s pending with @RBI Ombudsman. One big lesson for me: Don’t have debit cards. Cancelled all of them. Use credit cards instead and always pay in full before due date. Quoting @suchetadalal If this can happen to @Sanjay__Bakshi - it can happen to all of us. @rblbank has a serious issue judging customers !! Related
26 June
AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.
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if you ask a person when was Abraham Lincoln born and they don't know the date. They could sit there, they could think about it for a week, if they if they don't have access to Wikipedia or something, they're not going to be able to do better answering that question if they thought about it for a week compared to 5 seconds. Same with the model.
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15 June
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Something is wrong with my Claude Code and I can't figure it out... The latest model I can use is Opus 4.5. It claims that updates are available but Homebrew says I'm on the latest version. I've tried re-installing and clearing my .claude directory to no avail. I couldn't have used Fable last week even if I tried 😢 Any ideas? Anthropic Related
9 June
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
If you wanted to try out fable but are scared of blowing away your token budget do we have a skill for you! Its called Thrifty. It makes things cheaper. We built thrifty for claude code around a better split: strong model plans → cheap model executes → gate verifies. Anthropic Related
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward
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26 May
Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
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13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.
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11 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Switching to Linux has been great. With Windows 10 (Pro): ❗️ Webcam's settings would always get reset semi-randomly ❗️ The date from the clock would frequently disappear ❗️ Mic's volume would often get lowered ❗️ Forced updates None of these issues exist with Arch Linux. Arch Linux Related
30 April
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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In the face of weakened renewable roll-out in Australia, the most likely outcome is simply that coal and gas just generate more, and for many more years past their shut down date.
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28 March
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but…
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19 March
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Why would I use a date picker library where I'd have to customize it when I could have Claude write me the exact date picker that I want.
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16 February
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
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And that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
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1 January
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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My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but they made me laugh, made me cry, and were impossible to put down.
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My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but they made me laugh, made me cry, and were impossible to put down.
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My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but they made me laugh, made me cry, and were impossible to put down.
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28 December 2025
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a beautiful fable about a seagull who wants to fly for the pure joy of flight, rather than simply to find food, as most gulls do. Ostracized from his flock for his eccentric behavior, Jonathan embarks on a quest for aerodynamic perfection that doubles as a moving spiritual allegory. You've never read a book quite like this one before, and it'll stick with you long after you reach the end.
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26 December 2025
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Books I Read in 2025 I’ve read quite a few books in 2025, and this time, instead of using Goodreads, I decided to keep a list in my personal notebook. I also wrote down the date I finished them. Books are a big part of my life. When I was v…
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21 December 2025
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).
27 November 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
3 November 2025
Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.
27 October 2025
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
12 September 2025
Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.
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So to me like what what I tend to think about a lot in terms of timelines is not the date when it will be done but the date when it will when like the flywheel starts basically.
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18 August 2025
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
11 June 2025
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
24 April 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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there's been no computer improvement up to this date that did not result in more jobs.
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23 February 2025
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
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(publication date March 18, 2025, Viking) by Laura Delano is a compelling and troubling memoir of psychiatric patienthood, iatrogenic harm, and finding a meaningful and flourishing life outside of the mental healthcare system.
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16 October 2024
Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.
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Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449
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It uses massive megalithic architecture, which is very difficult to destroy, and a profound knowledge of astronomy to encode a date in a language that any culture which is sufficiently literate in astronomy will be able to decode.
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We are pretty sure that the Sphinx, at least, does date back to 12 and a half thousand years ago and with it, the megalithic temples, the so-called Valley Temple, which stands just to the east and just to the south of the Sphinx and the Sphinx temple, which stands directly in front of the Sphinx.
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25 March 2024
Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.
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This raises public concerns that, at this late date, DoD might not have such a specification, whether classified or unclassified, even for its own internal use.
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4 March 2024
Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.
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What I think would happen one way or another is the Soviet collapse in a different form, on somebody else’s watch at some later period in time.
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1 October 2023
Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.
28 September 2023
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
10 June 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
2 September 2022
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
17 May 2022
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
2 January 2022
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
11 September 2021
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
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Then, finally, there is Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions are Made, which is very recent and very up to date.
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His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.
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31 July 2021
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
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When I switched to Hugo, I needed to have an extension which allows me to keep my article front matter up to date.
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2 October 2020
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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Stowa Flieger Classic 40 - When I'm not wearing my Apple Watch, this classic Pilot watch is on my wrist. Sapphire crystal, blued steel hands, and a date window at the 6 o'clock position. Perfect.
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30 January 2020
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
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Zoom is something I use multiple times a day for video and audio communication. It's been the best video calling service I've used to date and works well for a remote working.
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8 April 2019
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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This documentary was a solid telling of the story of that mission, and of the later-in-Apollo scientific goals and geological exploration that was achieved, as well as a wistful look back at the story of the last humans, to date, to set foot on the moon.
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1 October 2016
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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But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.
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7 October 2014
Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.
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I wear a Swatch model GB743, which is lightweight, ticks, and has high-contrast analog dial with day and date. I only take it off to change battery.
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27 May 2014
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
13 August 2011
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
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