Seán Barry
AI and Existential Dread
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think...
3 days ago
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think it's a farce and others think we face extinction. Here are my thoughts.
AI as Normal...
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
3 days ago
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
AI for Software...
AI Skills and Job Market, Q3 2026
An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
5 days ago
An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
Weighty Thoughts
Why Is AI Bad at Writing?
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
a week ago
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
Cal Newport
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
a week ago
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more
The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
Solving the decision...
the appeal
what does the creator owe you
a week ago
what does the creator owe you
matt.sh
agent-shell: your output, your storage
agent-shell: stop spilling
your outputs
since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
a week ago
agent-shell: stop spilling
your outputs
since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one
thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head
or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want.
Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
Armin Ronacher's...
Latent Powers
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those
cheap Chinese CarPlay...
a week ago
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those
cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The
idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, why not do something more
interesting with them? They all work quite...
Xena
FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour...
a week ago
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.me platform, has formalized a complete … Continue reading →
Giles' blog
Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers...
a week ago
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers has been PyTorch-only since version 5
(though they say they're working to add interoperability with JAX in the future), so it
would have been tough to get them working natively with...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)
Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means...
2 weeks ago
Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device specs; Stalwart workers; "I, Rowboat"; SMS uprising; Facebook v switching costs;...
Marcus on AI
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
2 weeks ago
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How to protect yourself from workslop
2 weeks ago
Anil Dash
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital”...
2 weeks ago
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore.
There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on...
2 weeks ago
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
IEEE Spectrum
Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen...
2 weeks ago
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Israeli Officials Promote Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories About Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:
2 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
2 weeks ago
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
3 weeks ago
Anil Dash
Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for...
4 weeks ago
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for my Mac, but without having to use an Apple keyboard. (I generally like their keyboards, but my daily driver keyboard these days is a big clicky mechanical beast.) I’d gone down...
Armin Ronacher's...
What Is Reasoning
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that
showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
4 weeks ago
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that
showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together
with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me
investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and
confusion...
fast.ai
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
17th Aug 2026
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
Strange Loop Canon
Nobody Knows Anything
on living with ignorance
16th Aug 2026
Xena
The Annals Challenge
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50...
13th Aug 2026
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of Mathematics (a prestigious mathematical journal) …...
Mind Prison
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach
An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
An analysis of the X social media algorithm
Cal Newport
On AI Coding and Its Discontents
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described...
10th Aug 2026
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more
The post On AI Coding and Its Discontents appeared first on Cal Newport.
Ollama
Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available....
10th Aug 2026
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available. Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local coding agents, and accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and...
Solving the decision...
every company needs a cassandra
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
9th Aug 2026
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
Giles' blog
A quick(ish) Chinchilla check
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models,
training them both on 40 tokens per parameter...
7th Aug 2026
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models,
training them both on 40 tokens per parameter rather than the 20 per parameter
that is generally regarded as "Chinchilla-optimal".
The normal heuristic is that instead of doing that, you should scale up the number
of tokens...
AI for Software...
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
AI as Normal...
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
5th Aug 2026
Early evidence from two case studies
Win Vector LLC
Choose by Probability, not by Expectation
A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of...
4th Aug 2026
A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of claimed returns or in terms of expected values. For example: An ultra greedy gambler may pick the highest claimed winning payoff, independent of win or success probabilities. A greedy...
Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra
Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
2nd Aug 2026
Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
Don't Worry About...
Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought...
2nd Aug 2026
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels.
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Giving and taking credit in big tech companies
2nd Aug 2026
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look...
1st Aug 2026
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Furries...
IEEE Spectrum
Fridays With Bob
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which...
1st Aug 2026
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions.
I didn’t find one right away. Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report,...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Let's Stay Human
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Aug 2026
matt.sh
Claude Hooker: do you come here often?
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claude-hooker
The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has...
1st Aug 2026
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claude-hooker
The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has been how does a world
leading ‘AI productization lab’ continually generate such shitty amatuer
globally distributed software and services over and over again? It’s
almost like...
Cal Newport
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion...
27th Jul 2026
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more
The post Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Cal Newport.
Anil Dash
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
Win Vector LLC
Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples are not Rare
The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a...
23rd Jul 2026
The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a family of functions had nice properties. In July 2026 Levent Alpöge exhibited a simple counter-example that he said was found by Claude Fable 5. Fields medalist Terence Tao wrote on...
One Useful Thing
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The Summer 2026 Edition
23rd Jul 2026
Xena
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of...
20th Jul 2026
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), … Continue reading →
Solving the decision...
one document, two hands
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
20th Jul 2026
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
Max Woolf's Blog
What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
18th Jul 2026
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
Marcus on AI
Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI
Good news, for once.
14th Jul 2026
the singularity is...
AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard...
11th Jul 2026
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really...
AI as Normal...
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
9th Jul 2026
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
Ollama
Ollama: all aboard open models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and...
9th Jul 2026
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and many incredible angel investors.
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX)
This post is the capstone of
the most long-running series on my blog.
In December 2024 (!), I...
8th Jul 2026
This post is the capstone of
the most long-running series on my blog.
In December 2024 (!), I started
reading Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)",
and worked through it carefully. Being who I am, despite trying to apply a strict "no side...
AI for Software...
Striving for Greatness in All You Do
Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
8th Jul 2026
Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
Armin Ronacher's...
Better Models: Worse Tools
A very strange Pi issue
sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is...
4th Jul 2026
A very strange Pi issue
sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that
newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in
the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The
edit itself is...
matt.sh
BlazeIt (macOS + iOS B2 Client)
4th Jul 2026
Weighty Thoughts
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great!
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
Caitlin’s Newsletter
They Fearmonger About "Communism" Because They Can't Oppose Real Problems
And Other Notes
2nd Jul 2026
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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
2nd Jul 2026
Don't Worry About...
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions....
1st Jul 2026
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights...
1st Jul 2026
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls."...
IEEE Spectrum
The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe...
1st Jul 2026
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public.
Later that month, SpaceX filed an...
The Berkeley...
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This...
1st Jul 2026
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Tree, truth, druid, dryad, tar and dendrite grew from one Proto-Indo-European root
24th Jun 2026
David Rozado...
Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the...
22nd Jun 2026
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters
Weighty Thoughts
Knowledge Agents: Beat Frontier Models with Better Structure
No Mythos, No Problem
21st Jun 2026
Eugene Yan
Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
21st Jun 2026
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
Token for Token
Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
15th Jun 2026
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
Strange Loop Canon
LLM councils show groupthink
perils and problems of LLM peer review
15th Jun 2026
perils and problems of LLM peer review
Solving the decision...
never waste a token
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with...
15th Jun 2026
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
Anil Dash
Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over
“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of...
15th Jun 2026
“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.”
That’s me, in The Guardian a few days ago, trying to distill a message that I’ve been trying to get out as broadly as possible for...
Arguing with...
Lay the cornerstone yourself
As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful...
14th Jun 2026
As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful attention to the foundations and not let the AI make all the decisions for you.
AI as Normal...
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
11th Jun 2026
Coding agents as normal technology
AI for Software...
Can We Run Data Centers in Space?
An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption...
10th Jun 2026
An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption on Earth
the singularity is...
Our Great War is a Spiritual War
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized...
6th Jun 2026
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root?
The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and...
Armin Ronacher's...
Communities of Not
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around
abstinence from something:...
6th Jun 2026
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around
abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these
communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy,
choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets...
matt.sh
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 6: kvestigate (investigate k*)
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage...
6th Jun 2026
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes
cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is
going on?
Say hello to kvestigate your
kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability...
Mind Prison
Anti-AI Sentiment Is Being AI-Generated and the Anti-AI Movement Fell for It
Notes From the Desk: No. 56 - 2026.06.05
5th Jun 2026
Notes From the Desk: No. 56 - 2026.06.05
Giles' blog
Using Safetensors with Flax
I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to
JAX, using
Flax as the neural network layer.
For various reasons...
4th Jun 2026
I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to
JAX, using
Flax as the neural network layer.
For various reasons I wanted to use Safetensors
to store checkpoints of the model. It took a little while to get it working;
here's the trick I learned.
If you look at the Safetensors docs, you'll...
One Useful Thing
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
4th Jun 2026
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
Ollama
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
4th Jun 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
Marcus on AI
Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true
A true life moment for your correspondent
2nd Jun 2026
A true life moment for your correspondent
laike9m's blog
Trend of Agentic Coding Products
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
2nd Jun 2026
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE President’s Note: Designing a Safer Digital World for Kids
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems,...
1st Jun 2026
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems, which weren’t designed with them in mind. One‑third of the world’s Internet users are younger than 18, according to UNICEF, yet these systems shaping their daily lives were built for...
Don't Worry About...
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this...
1st Jun 2026
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Home chemistry sets in danger; Every pirate wants to be an admiral; Painful...
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Weird projects I shipped with AI
1st Jun 2026
Solving the decision...
Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius
The World Will Be Prompt
28th May 2026
Ollama
OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama
OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run...
28th May 2026
OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run on your own hardware, with Ollama support built-in.
maragu’s blog
Choosing what to keep human
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
27th May 2026
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
One Useful Thing
Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
26th May 2026
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
Max Woolf's Blog
The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
Why Hy3?
26th May 2026
Win Vector LLC
Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating...
21st May 2026
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data. It is a technical demonstration on how what one observes (outcomes, frequencies, and so on) differ from what we want to know...
AI as Normal...
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
21st May 2026
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
matt.sh
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 1: hyperdjango
hyperdjango
Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning
2026. Welcome!
To kick off spring...
20th May 2026
hyperdjango
Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning
2026. Welcome!
To kick off spring cleaning, the first project I’d like to release
is: hyperdjango.
What is hyperdjango you may
ask?
You could jump ahead into all docs at the hyperdjango hyperdocs hypersite and
find...
Giles' blog
10Gb/s Ethernet: using mini-heatsinks with a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module
In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary
temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T...
18th May 2026
In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary
temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T SFP+ module I have plugged
into nigel, the 10Gb/s switch I have in my study.
As I mentioned then, the plan was to try using some of the mini-heatsinks that
people use on Raspberry...
Xena
Formalizing Fermat workshop
I’m organizing a workshop in London on July 6th to 10th (2026) whose goal is to work on my...
15th May 2026
I’m organizing a workshop in London on July 6th to 10th (2026) whose goal is to work on my EPSRC-funded project formalizing Fermat’s Last theorem in Lean. The initial aim of the project was to reduce FLT to theorems known … Continue reading →
The Berkeley...
Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling
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8th May 2026
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AI for Software...
The Real Way to Make Agentic Development Faster (It Isn’t Tokenmaxxing)
Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
7th May 2026
Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
Weighty Thoughts
World Models Can Change Everything
If they work, AI can finally conquer the real world… but that’s a big “if”
6th May 2026
If they work, AI can finally conquer the real world… but that’s a big “if”
Armin Ronacher's...
Content for Content’s Sake
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not
everybody is ready for it at...
4th May 2026
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not
everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my
community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked
in” or “cracked.” I don’t like it, because the...
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Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"
3rd May 2026
Eugene Yan
How to Work and Compound with AI
Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the...
3rd May 2026
Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the loop.
Strange Loop Canon
Why Coase needs Hayek
sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
2nd May 2026
sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers...
2nd May 2026
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Colbert v GWB; Wallaby milk; Jay Rosen's journalism precepts; Radical Media(TM); What is carried interest? TCP...
Marcus on AI
“A model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a...
A lot of code is being written by AI, but what does it mean?
1st May 2026
A lot of code is being written by AI, but what does it mean?
Don't Worry About...
Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That
Why can’t you build it?
1st May 2026
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Protest Laws Should Be Viewed As Efforts To Ban Criticism Of Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st May 2026
the singularity is...
AI will create jobs
It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it.
AI and...
1st May 2026
It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it.
AI and immigration are fundamentally the same. There’s new people showing up, and hopefully everyone understands how and why immigration creates jobs.
Wants are effectively unlimited. It’s...
One Useful Thing
Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
One impressive step on the curve
23rd Apr 2026
One impressive step on the curve
David Rozado...
DEI Statement Requirements in Faculty Hiring Have More Than Halved Between 2024 and 2025
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across...
21st Apr 2026
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across faculty hiring between 2024 and 2025
The Berkeley...
Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons
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20th Apr 2026
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maragu’s blog
Headless software
How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
20th Apr 2026
How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
AI as Normal...
Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
16th Apr 2026
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
AI for Software...
Understanding Open Model Licenses
And what to look for in custom licenses
15th Apr 2026
And what to look for in custom licenses
Sam Altman
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Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Images have power, I hope....
10th Apr 2026
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no...
Armin Ronacher's...
Absurd In Production
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a
durable execution system we built for our own use at...
4th Apr 2026
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a
durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely
on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a
separate service, a
compiler plugin, or an entire
runtime to get durable...
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI in Writing a Problem?
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
3rd Apr 2026
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building
3rd Apr 2026
Giles' blog
Automating starting Lambda Labs instances
I've been trying to get an 8x A100 instance on Lambda Labs to do a training run for my
LLM from...
2nd Apr 2026
I've been trying to get an 8x A100 instance on Lambda Labs to do a training run for my
LLM from scratch series, but they're really busy at the moment,
and it's rare to see anything.
Thanks to the wonders of agentic coding, I spent an hour today getting something up
and running to...
the singularity is...
The Reckoning
So go ask your Chomsky
10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial...
2nd Apr 2026
So go ask your Chomsky
10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was a nebulous concept, but it mostly involved the abrupt fall from grace of these people at the hands of machines. It’s kind of...
Solving the decision...
developer relations after the cheat code machine
(corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these...
2nd Apr 2026
(corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these systems)
Don't Worry About...
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust
Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
1st Apr 2026
Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
IEEE Spectrum
What Exoskeletons Learned From One Relentless User
It’s easy to assume that Robert Woo was defined by the accident that took away his ability to...
1st Apr 2026
It’s easy to assume that Robert Woo was defined by the accident that took away his ability to walk.
Certainly, the day of his accident—14 December 2007—was a turning point. Woo, an architect working on the new Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City, hadn’t attended his...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
There Are No Good Zionists, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Apr 2026
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)
Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to...
1st Apr 2026
Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: My new sigfile is unstoppable; TBL on the future of the web (2006); Wonder Woman sweater pattern; Unpatchable drug cabinets; 50-building mural; DRM v (the...
Marcus on AI
In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy
A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
1st Apr 2026
A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
Ollama
Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's...
30th Mar 2026
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.
maragu’s blog
autoresearch and diary agent skills
I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
26th Mar 2026
I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
Mind Prison
How Verifier Loops Made AI Coding Useful | The Rise of Vibeware, Abandonware and Technical Debt as...
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex...
22nd Mar 2026
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex applications and at what cost?
The Berkeley...
Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs
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Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language...
13th Mar 2026
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Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and...
Solving the decision...
let the code do the talking
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
One Useful Thing
The Shape of the Thing
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
12th Mar 2026
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
Weighty Thoughts
How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
11th Mar 2026
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32e -- Interventions: the learning rate
I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on...
10th Mar 2026
I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on code based on
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)".
In my training code, I have this code to create the optimiser:
optimizer =...
the singularity is...
Every minute you aren’t running 69 agents, you are falling behind
Just kidding.
Today we should ramp down rhetoric. I thought nobody would take three minutes to...
10th Mar 2026
Just kidding.
Today we should ramp down rhetoric. I thought nobody would take three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass or you are worth $0.003/hr seriously. But it looks like some people do, and you shouldn’t.
Social media has been extremely toxic for the last couple...
Token for Token
How to train the best embedding model in the world
one PhD later, I'm giving my secrets away for free
9th Mar 2026
one PhD later, I'm giving my secrets away for free
Anil Dash
The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment
Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most...
8th Mar 2026
Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most attention across the industry was the $600 ($500 if you’re in education!) MacBook Neo, the brightly-colored low-end laptop that they launched to great fanfare. The conventional wisdom...
Armin Ronacher's...
AI And The Ship of Theseus
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes
re-implementations. I mentioned...
5th Mar 2026
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes
re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my
libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different
design for that implementation. In many ways, the functionality was the...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI
4th Mar 2026
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering
3rd Mar 2026
Strange Loop Canon
Aligning Anthropic
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
2nd Mar 2026
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
Don't Worry About...
Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk
This is the long version of what happened so far.
2nd Mar 2026
This is the long version of what happened so far.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it...
2nd Mar 2026
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes "Unprovoked", And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
2nd Mar 2026
Artificial Ignorance
BYOB: Build Your Own Benchmark
AI benchmarks are saturating, getting harder to verify, and increasingly irrelevant to how most...
1st Mar 2026
AI benchmarks are saturating, getting harder to verify, and increasingly irrelevant to how most people use models. The replacements are weirder - and more useful.
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the...
1st Mar 2026
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers.
The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its ethos of curiosity and creativity fostered unprecedented collaboration across disciplines. Artists,...
Marcus on AI
Is AI already killing people by accident?
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether...
1st Mar 2026
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.
AI for Software...
Better Agents Mean Better Surveillance | Weekend Reads 3
Your reading list to keep up with AI 03-01-2026
1st Mar 2026
Your reading list to keep up with AI 03-01-2026
matt.sh
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep
An Expert Review of A
Fire Upon The Deep
Over the years I’ve read A
Fire Upon The Deep a couple...
1st Mar 2026
An Expert Review of A
Fire Upon The Deep
Over the years I’ve read A
Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it. I
often see people get basic outright stated plot details wrong about it,
so maybe this can be a cheat sheet if you believe it all. This page is
in...
Max Woolf's Blog
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
Max Woolf's Blog
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
maragu’s blog
23 skills I wrote with my AI
My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
20th Feb 2026
My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
The Gradient
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment
Preface
This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t...
18th Feb 2026
Preface
This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions,...
One Useful Thing
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
It's not just chatbots anymore
18th Feb 2026
It's not just chatbots anymore
fast.ai
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
What analog and AI education both get wrong
17th Feb 2026
What analog and AI education both get wrong
fast.ai
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech...
16th Feb 2026
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
Arguing with...
The AI Panic Attack
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
16th Feb 2026
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
AI as Normal...
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
12th Feb 2026
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
the singularity is...
I Told You So
My quote from 2019
“I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very...
12th Feb 2026
My quote from 2019
“I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz
How is everyone...
AI for Software...
The Mistakes Most Entry-Level Candidates Make in Technical Interviews
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
12th Feb 2026
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
Andrej Karpathy blog
microgpt
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12th Feb 2026
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This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies...
Win Vector LLC
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number...
11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
Dylan Huang Blog
APIs Over UIs: Agents Are the Future Interface to Everything
11th Feb 2026
Xena
Accelerating mathematics
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical...
9th Feb 2026
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical discovery. How might they go about doing this? The traditional approach Historically it has been governments who have been driving this agenda, … Continue reading →
Armin Ronacher's...
A Language For Agents
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like...
9th Feb 2026
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing.
Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement
existing languages in place but now I’m starting to think...
Weighty Thoughts
Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Getting the main thing right
5th Feb 2026
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32a -- Interventions: training a baseline model
I'm rounding out my series of posts on
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from...
4th Feb 2026
I'm rounding out my series of posts on
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)"
by seeing how I could train the best base model I can from scratch on my own hardware.
I started by training one in two days on my RTX 3090,
and found that while it was a...
Anil Dash
New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads
This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary...
4th Feb 2026
This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the catch-all term for our greater collective of creators and collaborators, founders and funders, inventors and investors,...
Artificial Ignorance
The Codex App Has Upended My Daily Workflow
I haven't opened my IDE in days. I'm not sure I miss it.
2nd Feb 2026
I haven't opened my IDE in days. I'm not sure I miss it.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this:...
2nd Feb 2026
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Acme License-Plate Maker; IPV4 delenda est; Mandatory gun-ownership; Sukey; Ross and Carrie x LRH; Criti-hype. Upcoming appearances: Where...
Don't Worry About...
Welcome to Moltbook
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
2nd Feb 2026
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
laike9m's blog
First Month at the Jules Team
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
1st Feb 2026
Mind Prison
2026 Important Updated Perspectives on AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
1st Feb 2026
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
Marcus on AI
OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
1st Feb 2026
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
IEEE Spectrum
LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the...
1st Feb 2026
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the cathode-ray tube’s glow. The English band Pink Floyd blared through the speakers of my mom’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, beckoning us to the dark side of the moon.
The far side of...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Our Rulers Are Psychopaths And They're Making Everything Awful
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Feb 2026
AI as Normal...
Fact checking Moravec's paradox
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
29th Jan 2026
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
Strange Loop Canon
The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons
Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as...
20th Jan 2026
Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as Hayek's revenge
fast.ai
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Experiments in reading with LLMs
20th Jan 2026
Experiments in reading with LLMs
fast.ai
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
the singularity is...
Anthropic is making a huge mistake
For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API.
I wasn’t planning to try...
14th Jan 2026
For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API.
I wasn’t planning to try other models today, but now that’s all I’m going to be doing. I’m sure they have a massive influx of users on Claude Code since Opus 4.5, I’ve been recommending it to everyone. But...
Armin Ronacher's...
Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in
the summer, but it...
14th Jan 2026
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in
the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for.
However, things have advanced since. Yesterday I ported
MiniJinja (a Rust Jinja2 template
engine) to native Go, and I used...
Arguing with...
My coding philosophy
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
13th Jan 2026
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
Win Vector LLC
I am Tired of Praise of Byproduct
I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large...
10th Jan 2026
I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large language models). I feel we are overly impressed with the byproduct or even the bycatch. LLMs do complete some tasks, write code, and produce superficially convincing texts. In my...
The Berkeley...
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into...
10th Jan 2026
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects.
Many imaging systems produce measurements...
One Useful Thing
Claude Code and What Comes Next
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
7th Jan 2026
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 29 -- using DistributedDataParallel to train a base model from...
I'm carrying on with my "extra credit" projects after finishing the main body of
Sebastian Raschka's...
7th Jan 2026
I'm carrying on with my "extra credit" projects after finishing the main body of
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)".
Having proven that I could train a GPT-2 small scale base model from scratch
on my RTX 3090
in 48 hours, I wanted to try...
maragu’s blog
Do we still have time for human code review?
I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future, we software developers won’t be looking at our...
5th Jan 2026
I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future, we software developers won’t be looking at our production code anymore.
Anil Dash
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?”
There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025
A look back at the year in AI news.
4th Jan 2026
A look back at the year in AI news.
Marcus on AI
Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
A new case in point
3rd Jan 2026
Solving the decision...
where good ideas come from (for coding agents)
(and the part where users have to level up)
3rd Jan 2026
(and the part where users have to level up)
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter
2nd Jan 2026
Don't Worry About...
AI #149: 3
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
1st Jan 2026
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
AI for Software...
AI for Software Engineers: Looking Forward to 2026
Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
1st Jan 2026
Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
Weighty Thoughts
Ten Years of AI in Review
From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
IEEE Spectrum
11 Amazing Engineering Events in 2026
This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2026.
Brain Chip Helps Blind People See
Elon...
1st Jan 2026
This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2026.
Brain Chip Helps Blind People See
Elon Musk says his company Neuralink is aiming to restore partial sight to fully blind patients in 2026. The company plans to test its newest and most powerful implant, Blindsight, in...
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