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20 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.
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
10 Sunday Reads The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Tur…
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19 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
It feels like mass culture died and was replaced with viral meme culture, but viral meme culture also died and was replaced with heavenbanning -- communal human culture is now just totally dead and everyone is consuming a personalized feed of algorithmic slop. Is that true? Related
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.
18 September
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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I stopped replying almost entirely to my replies on my own Tweets because I expect all of them to just be LLM slop.
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17 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
16 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
My co-founder Colin is not an engineer but he had Pi build a screen recording software to record himself showing off his exquisite slop skills! Unironically I find it kinda cool that you can do that. Quoting @colindaymond Radius lets you work with and collaborate on artifacts, natively within Pi Related
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
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sometimes it's alright to have the ceo vibe slop his way to success.
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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
15 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Full credit to @harrybrundage for coining the term Slop Grenade. Let’s make it a thing. Quoting @shaneparrish Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else has to wade through it,… Related
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess. You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it. Quoting @shaneparrish My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi. 0:00 How Shopify Uses AI 7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI 8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning 10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection 11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making 14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do 16:04 What AI is Ma… Related
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
This 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 Quoting @colossusjeremy I'm grateful to the readers complaining that I put myself in this piece too much, to which I say: -Human watermarks are more important now -I'm tired of gen z bullying everyone into fear of being cringe, we need to let it all hang out Related
14 September
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.
12 September
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Mastodon Underdesk Treadmill I pulled the trigger on an underdesk treadmill. Basic research suggested GoPlus is a decent one. I was hoping it would be $300-400 USD.... chriscoyier.net
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10 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.
9 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Last week @db called my podcast "slop-talk" 💀💀💀 I'm dead and still haven't recovered. But, seriously, thanks for listening. And some good recs for other podcasts at the bottom of the post too. dbushell.com
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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.
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
7 September
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117230983938174038 @tao writes: "For the first time in the history of mathematics, we are faced with the situation that open problems in pure mathematics -- one of the primary fuels for mathematical discovery -- are being mined as a non-renewable resource". Very important thought! But maybe it's renewable if one is willing to solve an already solved problem without looking at the existing solution. I sometimes fantasize about a far future world where everything I could prove has already been proved. That wouldn't need to stop me from making new discoveries, sin… Related
6 September
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?
ironically i now appreciate when someone egregiously misspells my name because i know it’s at least not ai slop Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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when it's "one step removed" from normal code it writes weird Python slop. The unittests it writes are absolutely horrific.
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5 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
An elaboration of the previous post mentioning the bounded gaps between primes problem as an illustration of the opportunity cost of converting a fruitful problem such as this solely into a competitive benchmark. [Indeed, as I point out below, this already came close to happening back in 2013.] As with most other problems worth studying in pure mathematics, the particular bound one gets on these gaps is not of much intrinsic importance. Improving Zhang's bound of 70 million, to 246, 188, or 6 would not, in itself, have significant impact on any other mathematical problem, let alone any real-w… benchmarks Related
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
I asked a local instantiation of google/gemma4:31b-mlx to introduce itself to my new research assistants and point at its own workspace. What came back was a meditation on Plato, salamander brains, and why you should treat it like an eccentric roommate: **ThothBot Makes an Appearance in My RA-Group Telegram Chat: FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS** Living & working in Berkeley, California: An AI writes an introduction to my research assistants, & PanGram/SubStack grades it 100% not-slop; or, what... 1/ Google Related
4 September
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
. @isaac_flath and I are going to see if the slop prompt is good and do some evals. (also first time trying to stream haha). Related
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
3 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
In basic research, such as pure mathematics, one might naively expect that the natural question to ask with regards to a given problem X in a field is "What is the answer to X?". But in many cases the more valuable question is "What can be learned from studying X?" The answer to X itself can of course be one of the things learned in this process of study; but one can learn far more useful information besides, such as * What are the main difficulties to overcome to resolve X? * What new techniques can one discover in order to solve X? * Why are existing techniques insufficient to solve the pro… Related
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
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2 September
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
Real-time AI video generation has arrived. Right now it is infinite slop, but it can be used to make a video game / world that is generated on demand instead of pre-built. youtube.com
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31 August
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
The power of Expert Intelligence in @Gemini_Notebook: Add The Sense of Style by @sapinker to a notebook with a draft you're writing. Ask for feedback based on Pinker's ideas. It's the opposite of AI slop: personalized advice based on human expertise, facilitated by AI. And what I love about this is that I'm getting actionable suggestions here AND Notebook is serving as a guide to Pinker's underlying philosophy of writing. So I'm learning deeper principles as I improve my draft. And of course everything in the Notebook response points directly back to specific passages in Pinker (and my own dr… notebook.google.com
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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
This is pure gold data Companies focused and lost by the hype of AI without build their own SDLC powered by AI is the recipe to fail. Learn -> Measure -> Build 🔁 That's the cicle. No "please use AI for whatever you build". Then the billing hurts to pay and I'm not talking about tokens. Related
29 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
I opened up Apple Maps' search box and its new ads suggested I go to JetBlue Airways, the JetBlue terminal at JFK airport 39 miles away. I opened up Google Maps' search box, and 100% of the screen space is devoted to my presets (Home/Work/etc.) and my Recent searches. Apple continues to embarrass itself with its shitty ad plays. In the meantime, I'll keep using Google Maps, because it's just *better*, and — something I never thought I'd say — it respects me more as the user, with fewer ads. 🤯 Google Related
27 August
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.
"Out, damned slop! Out, I say!" -- Lady Macbeth if she were reviewing Oxide candidate materials, maybe Related
24 August
Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.
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there are some people who have pure apathy, no depression like David. And there are other people who can be depressed, they can be sad, they can be hopeless about the future, but they don't necessarily lose motivation. They can have pure depression.
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23 August
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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An increasing fraction of social media consists of slop influencers using AI to make posts and bots replying to them. An echo of an echo of an echo
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14 August
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
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.
It's now the second blog post in a day sent over by an early-stage VC-startup I tried to read, but could NOT, after a few sentences. Verbose, weird... AI-generated. These companies think they made "content" more efficient. No: it's lower quality, slop +I no longer care about the startup startups 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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Here's a baseline. Uh you cannot send anyone something you haven't read. And in fact, if it would take them longer to read it than it took you to make it, it's probably slop.
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11 August
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
10 August
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
8 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
This week we did a three day "App Jam" at @Playbit_ . Lots of cool things were built, like a multiplayer math art app and a MIDI composer. My own project was a flow-based programming app for graphics. As if Quartz Composer was multiplayer. Pure C & WGSL, no libs, 1.5M wasm file. Related
4 August
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
2 August
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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there are people who are really big on road maps and there are people who are really big on iteration. I I think the honest answer is you've got to do both. You can't over-index on either.
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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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Um, but actually the median business, uh, is doing better this year than a year ago. Um, and so and then if we kind of, um, stratify and look at the probability that any given business will reach some revenue threshold, a million dollars, five million dollars, 10 million dollars, whatever, um, those all seem to be getting better.
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26 July
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
24 July
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
At #ICM2026 something we're starting to talk about is the new Wolfram Institute Pure Math Project... Related
22 July
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
20 July
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Love it. Why stop there? nines don’t matter until you don’t have them nines don't matter if the answer is slop nines don't matter when you are the training data four nines of confidently incorrect nines don't matter when you’re the product "human in the loop" is what you say when you've... Quoting @justingarrison.com I had to update @charity.wtf’s quote for 2026 Related
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
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Workshop Basel day two If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move ov…
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12 July
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
9 July
Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.
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So if you do a pure chronological feed, the incentive for everybody is to just post as much as possible uh because it will always be at the top of everyone who follows you's feed as soon as you post.
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24 June
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
i said i would write a followup piece on AI and ethics, and I have. Here it is. We do not get to choose to live in a pure world. But we get to choose whether to help shape the compromised world we already live in. Related
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
21 June
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
16 June
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
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The assumption is everybody sins all the time. There is no such thing as purity. Everybody sins every 5 minutes.
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10 June
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
8 June
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
28 May
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
23 May
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
13 May
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
12 May
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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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27 March
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
20 March
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
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Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI
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I mean, some problems have been basically solved by pure brute force. The four color theorem is is a famous example. Um, we have still not found a conceptually elegant proof of this theorem.
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Um we are seeing a lot fewer sort of pure AI solutions now where um they are just one shots the problem. Um so so there was there was a month where that happened and and that has stopped.
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16 March
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
https://t.co/BByvQpLiwH latest episode of Power and Consequences (Gary Gensler and Simon Johnson) on Economic Impacts from the Iran Conflict; substack post links to data sources and suggested additional reading #OOTT Related
14 March
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
9 March
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
3 March
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
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The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
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12 February
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
9 February
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
22 January
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Agentic development basics In my last post, I suggested that you should start using Claude in your software development process via read-only means at first. The idea is just to get used to interacting with the AI, seeing what it can do, and seei…
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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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15 December 2025
American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.
31 October 2025
Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.
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And when you link two together with the cable and if I got four, it would push yours forward. It was like the perfect game design. So from a pure puzzle perspective, nothing comes close.
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17 October 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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And I kind of feel like the industry it's it's um it's over it's it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend like this is amazing and it's not. It's slop and I think they're not coming to terms with it and maybe they're trying to fund raise or something like that.
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20 August 2025
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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Labubus and the brainrot aesthetic
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13 August 2025
Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.
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I’ve rarely seen a more capitalist society than China, from the pure economic side. I’ve rarely seen companies that are as competitive as Chinese companies. People as ambitious and obsessed with making money as Chinese people. Kind of ruthless actually. And look, consumers shop, firms invest. If you invest well financially, you’ll get great returns. What is not capitalistic about the Chinese economy? At the same time, the social fabric is highly socialist.
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8 August 2025
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at giving.ucla.edu
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2 August 2025
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.
28 May 2025
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
13 February 2025
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.
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This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
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19 January 2025
Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.
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And Friedman advanced a policy that was really abstract and really it was devoid of judgment. It was pure and beautiful in that way but utterly impractical.
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Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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but I'm very sorry to break it to all of you, but your problem is not unique. I'm 99% sure of that. Your problem has been felt by somebody somewhere and probably many, many places
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14 October 2024
Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.
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My suggested approach would be more capital intensive while retaining a lot of risk until fairly late in development. I am not sure it’s fundable.
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Cargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.
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6 August 2024
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
31 December 2023
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
10 December 2023
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.
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These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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1 October 2023
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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GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?
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Friedman’s focus on the money supply has not held up, as Samuelson suggested, but the alternative Keynesian macro models recommended by Samuelson in the same interview have not done better and they were not outperforming simple random walk models of predicting the macroeconomic future.
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It turns out that the highest gains from trade come from the introduction of new goods altogether, just as Malthus had suggested.
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28 September 2023
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
29 December 2022
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
7 September 2022
Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.
Their words
And I had suggested that that’s linked to the electrical fields on the membranes themselves and that they give some indication of how am I doing in relation to my environment as a real-time feedback on the world.
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6 June 2022
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
Their words
In his terrific book Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein argues that identity is the answer to the question suggested by his title.
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gatesnotes.com
25 May 2022
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
Their words
Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
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scotthyoung.com
21 February 2022
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
crypto
Their words, before
One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
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But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
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23 November 2021
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
24 April 2021
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
Their words
If you're looking to understand the basics of building and scaling a sales process and team, this book is a great primer. It also goes into great detail in how the author built a better, more reliable method than pure cold-calling to generate leads beyond the marketing team at Salesforce's efforts.
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jasonevanish.com
18 September 2020
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
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