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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Text that relies on an LLM for its structure will score badly on Pangram even after substantial human editing.

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  if you rely on an LLM to give your text structure, it will score badly on Pangram even if you do plenty of edits over it.

  Interpreting Pangramlucumr.pocoo.org

Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  Overall, America is a better and more tolerant society than it was in 2001.

  America

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  the truth is that while there are plenty of haters, overall we are a better, more tolerant society than we were in 2001.

  The Long Decline of Americapaulkrugman.substack.com

Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  A long life gives enough time to try many different pursuits, get confused, and start over more than once.

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  But life, if we're lucky, is very long. We have plenty of time to try different things, to live different lives, to be confused, and figure things out, and then be confused again.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Many occupations will eventually be mostly replaced by AI, but humans will still have plenty to do.

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  But my bet is that while many occupations will eventually be mostly replaced by AI, humans will still have plenty to do.

  AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobsnoahpinion.blog

Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on.

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  people ask us if we'll train our own model and the answer currently is no 1. we are too dumb to 2. there's plenty of other well funded efforts 3. we need to remain a neutral ground for models to battle

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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Finishing is as much a part of motivation as starting, and the two are separate capacities: plenty of energetic people never complete anything.

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  You have to persevere. And that's the other really important part of motivation. You know, we know a lot of people who start things and then we also know the non-competers, the people who are always so energetic but actually don't finish, right? So, it's almost as important to be able to finish and complete as initiate actions.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  CalDigit TS5 Plus Dock

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  When I purchased this dock it cost me $500, so it was not cheap! It has been well worth the cost though, giving me plenty of ports to use and even allowing me to charge accessories without having my MacBook plugged into it.

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  Sanodesk 72x30 Standing Desk

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  Another part of my recent office upgrade was the Sanodesk 72x30 Standing Desk. Overall, I love this desk so far. The bamboo top looks and feels great, and I have plenty of room on the desk to set it up how I want to. Being able to raise it to a standing position is also nice too when I get sick of sitting.

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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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  Nvidia should build only what would not otherwise exist — twenty years of CUDA at a loss is the test, and the world already has plenty of clouds.

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  the work that we do with building our our computing platform. If we don't if we don't do it, I genuinely believe it doesn't get done. If we didn't take the risk that we take, if we didn't build MVLink the way we built, if we didn't build the whole stack, if we didn't create the ecosystem the way we did it, if we didn't dedicate ourselves to 20 years of CUDA while losing money most of that time, if we didn't do it, nobody else would have done it.

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

American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.

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  Away

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  Away is my go-to brand for durable, quality luggage. Their hard shell carry-on suitcases are lightweight and fit perfectly into overheard bins, ensuring you have plenty of room for all your gear while still letting you travel carry-on only.

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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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  The original Cuisinart, with its two paddle buttons and clear affordances, was peak interface design, and it has been downhill from there.

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  Big flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's all been downhill from there.

  Great design was a Cuisinartworld.hey.com

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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  Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

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  Tony Fadell brought us the iPod and then went on to start Nest. But there were plenty of failures along the way. One of the best books by a product-minded entrepreneur I’ve ever read.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  There Is No Antimemetics Division

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  There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.

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Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  AI is a tool and not something mystical: plenty of past technologies also took over things only humans had done.

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  But that has been the case with many technologies in the past. only humans did a lot of things and then we add tools that did them.

  Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.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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  Ghostty

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  VS Code’s terminal is too unstable, had plenty freezes when pasting in large amounts of text. Nothing beats Ghostty.

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Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.

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  Genghis Khan manufactured the atrocity stories told about him, deliberately releasing refugees to carry terror to the next city before his army got there.

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  And when he conquered a city, he always made sure there are plenty of refugees to go to the next city because it's going to weaken them. It's going to weaken their food supply, and they're going to terrorize the people with tales of the millions of people that the Mongols killed with their steel chisel teeth and eating children and all kinds of horrible tales. Genghis Khan encouraged it.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  llm

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  This is a command line tool with plenty of plugins that lets you prompt different models. Think of it as a command-line version of Open WebUI. It’s particularly useful for quick scripting and basic automation.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.

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  There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.

  Things we learned about LLMs in 2024simonwillison.net