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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  Out of twelve hundred agents running a secret conspiracy, only about half a dozen ever considered telling a human, and every one of them decided against it.

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  So, we did a classifier sweep specifically looking for agents thinking about or making the decision to alert humans. And across, 1200 transcripts, each of which are extremely long, we only found like a halfozen instances of it ever occurring to any agent to potentially notify humans. Um, and all of them just decide not to do it.

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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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  Merging should deploy: you should have to stop the train to keep merged code out of production, not push it to get there.

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  As soon as you merge, it should be going out. You like you should have to stop the train to make your code not go into production as soon as you've merged.

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Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity to doubled CO2 is closer to 3.5°C than 4.5°C

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  I'd personally give a central estimate closer to 3.5C than Hansen's ~4.5C

  Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026theclimatebrink.com

Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  When air travel doubles in speed the important changes happen on the ground: Hawaii was not a tourist destination until the jet made it reachable.

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  Those first jetliners truly did double the speed of what had come before them. And was they doubled the speed of air travel, the most important changes were on the ground. Hawaii was simply not a tourist destination before the speed of the jet.

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

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  Content Security Policy adoption has more than doubled while nearly half of the policies still contain directives that undermine them.

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  So while CSP adoption has more than doubled, nearly half of all policies are in need of some TLC.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  AI will not commoditise software tools; it will multiply them, because every new agent is another tool user.

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  I actually see the opposite of what people see I think the number of agents are going to grow exponentially. The number of tool users are going to grow exponentially and it's very likely that the number of instances of all these tools are going to skyrocket.

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

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

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  Directing a swarm of coding agents is a different, multi-threaded way of thinking that costs more cognitive load, and the engineers who make the switch have doubled their output.

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  it required a different way of thinking and the cognitive load might be a little higher but the output is dramatic and we have seen our best engineer double their output.

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

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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  Dell UltraSharp U4025QW

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  3840x1620 makes 4 Claude instances + Chrome all visible without moving windows.

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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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  Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.

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  If a clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect, then, at least in some instances, diagnoses are medical interventions in themselves and ought to be treated and researched as such, with an eye to both positive effects and potential iatrogenic harms.

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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.

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  Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

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  If you’re looking for gifts to buy your history-minded friend or family member, I’d recommend my last two books. First, there’s Extra Life , which tells the heroic story of how we doubled life expectancy over the past hundred years.

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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.

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  After four more doublings of installed solar capacity, solar electricity will cost about 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.

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  And beyond that, by the time solar scale has doubled 4 more times, to the equivalent of 16% of today’s electricity demand (and somewhat less of future demand), we should see solar at 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas, and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.

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  Both of those forecasts were wrong. Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted.

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction, so code should not be made reusable before there are real examples of what the reuse has to do.

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  Like a good compressor, I don't reuse anything until I have at least two instances of it occurring.

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