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вівторок, 12 травня 2026 р.

• Thinking Machines and interaction models Sean Goedecke

понеділок, 11 травня 2026 р.

• The Inference Shift Ben Thompson Agentic inference is going to be different than the inference we use today, and it will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved.
• Tyrants are losing wars Noah Smith Ruthlessness and machismo will only get you so far in a technological world.
• Thoughts on GitLab's workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions" Simon Willison GitLab Act 2 There's a lot going on in this announcement from GitLab about the "workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions" they are making with respect to the agentic era. They're "
• Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Simon Willison Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it's even starting to distort
• Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Simon Willison TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News: But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you're sufficiently brave) [...] This inspired me to loo
• Learning on the Shop floor Simon Willison Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely

неділя, 10 травня 2026 р.

• The left-wing case for AI Sean Goedecke
• Joy & Curiosity #85 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 9 травня 2026 р.

• The Real Singularity is the Friends We Made Along the Way George Hotz This was in the Financial Times. I don’t have a subscription, so I don’t know what article it was in, or what context, or if they are in on the joke of the general absurdity of the graph or not.
• Do billionaires earn their money? Noah Smith That's probably the wrong question.
• AI makes weak engineers less harmful Sean Goedecke

пʼятниця, 8 травня 2026 р.

• Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish Armin Ronacher I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I
• 2026.19: Earning & Spending Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of May 4, 2026, including what we learned from Big Tech's first quarter, a conversation with Joanna Stern, and asking what's next for the Boston Celtics.
• Barack Obama was a successful President Noah Smith A repost, because I'm annoyed.
• Notes on incidents Sean Goedecke
• Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML Simon Willison Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to req
• Spirit Airlines & The Airplane Boneyard Trung Phan The business model behind storing, converting and disassembling airplanes.

четвер, 7 травня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Joanna Stern About Living With AI Ben Thompson An interview with Joanna Stern about her new book about living with AI, and starting her own media company.
• The agent principal-agent problem David Crawshaw The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively low-trus
• How AI Could Help Cure Pancreatic Cancer Derek Thompson The most lethal cancer is invisible to the human eye until it's too late to treat. In today's Q&A, a Mayo Clinic doctor says AI can see what the best radiologists cannot.
• Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress? Sean Goedecke
• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview Simon Willison Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview Fascinating, in-depth details on how Mozilla used their access to the Claude Mythos preview to locate and then fix hundreds of vulnerabil
• Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal Simon Willison There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they've struck with SpaceX/xAI to use "all of the capacity of their

середа, 6 травня 2026 р.

• Microsoft Earnings, Apple Earnings Ben Thompson Microsoft unveils its new agentic business model, and Apple confronts shortages in memory and chips even as the Mac benefits from AI.
• The Big Question Lurking Beneath the AI Debate Derek Thompson Is artificial intelligence normal?
• Could development economics be more useful? Noah Smith What's really needed is humility.
• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like Simon Willison I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my
• From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth Val. Town The perils of logging in

вівторок, 5 травня 2026 р.

• Amazon’s Durability Ben Thompson Amazon looked behind in AI in the training era, but is well place in the inference era, thanks to its continued investment in the long-term.
• Why Your Best Ideas Aren’t Original Derek Thompson What the mysterious history of "multiple discovery" in science tells us about the nature of creativity
• AI's big messaging pivot Noah Smith Some top AI leaders now say their technology will create jobs. Should we believe them?
• Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Simon Willison Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Andon Labs previously started an AI-run retail store in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe. The
• Investor Update – April 2026 Val. Town April had 8% revenue growth. New focus: Claude Code + Val Town MCP

понеділок, 4 травня 2026 р.

• Content for Content’s Sake Armin Ronacher 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”,
• Google Earnings, Meta Earnings Ben Thompson Wall Street loved Google's earnings, and hated Meta's, even though the latter's core business was more impressive. The difference is that Google is monetizing its investments now (and it might be all
• Dev, Test, Prod: Choose One, Two, or Three Exe.dev You can build, test, and deploy on exe.dev.
• Superpowers 5.1.0 Jesse Vincent I'm pleased to announce Superpowers 5.1.0. The biggest changes in this release are: -A reworking of how we use git worktrees, now that Claude Code and Codex have first-class support for them. Removing

неділя, 3 травня 2026 р.

• Punk, or why I don’t stream anymore George Hotz If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole – The Stephen Hawking, Say Anything
• Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes" Sean Goedecke
• Joy & Curiosity #84 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 2 травня 2026 р.

• Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• California's "billionaire tax" is the wrong approach Noah Smith Left-populist instincts are leading to silly policy ideas.
• Sightings Simon Willison /elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I

пʼятниця, 1 травня 2026 р.

• 2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of AR devices, and Beijing's myopia.
• AI will create jobs George Hotz It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it.
• My favorite adversarial review prompt Jesse Vincent Work gets better when it's reviewed after completion. That's at least as true for agentic work as it is for human work. Many moons ago, Harper taught me a cute trick for getting an agent to think crit
• Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming Noah Smith National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public order; California YIMBYism
• Sabastian Sawe, Adidas and the Sub-2 Hour Marathon Trung Phan How the super running shoe arms race helped two athletes break the 2-hour mark at London Marathon 2026.

четвер, 30 квітня 2026 р.

• Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes Ben Thompson Amazon's earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights.
• How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were Derek Thompson Compared to their parents, Millennial fathers have roughly tripled the amount of time they spend with kids. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.
• That time it tried to delete all my tests Jesse Vincent Last fall I had a bit of a problem with Claude. It was deleting tests. First, I caught it removing a single assertion from a test file. The next day, it deleted an entire test file from an active proj
• The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy Simon Willison Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. Eng

середа, 29 квітня 2026 р.

• Intel Earnings, Intel’s Differentiation?, Whither Terafab Ben Thompson Intel's earnings were very impressive, but the chief driver was a structural shift in demand for CPUs for AI. Plus, what is going on with Terafab?
• Scoring the Jensen-Dwarkesh debate Noah Smith Export controls are holding back Chinese AI. Should we keep them?

вівторок, 28 квітня 2026 р.

• Before GitHub Armin Ronacher GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was. Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrast
• An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents Ben Thompson An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft's new deal.
• Finding Vulnerabilities with Warden David Cramer We found 100+ vulnerabilities with Warden across Sentry and a few big OSS repos—here’s how we scope skills, iterate locally, and run it on PRs.
• Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 Simon Willison Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a "13B langua
• Your ears are burning—listen in with Octolens and Val Town Val. Town We tried hand rolling social listening before moving to Octolens

понеділок, 27 квітня 2026 р.

• AI Hardware, Meta Display, Redefining VR and AR Ben Thompson I finally tried the Meta Ray-Ban Display, and it completely changed how I think about AR and VR.
• The moderately easy problem of consciousness Noah Smith Before deciding if computers are self-aware, let's figure out how humans become self-aware.
• microsoft/VibeVoice Simon Willison microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 b
• Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause Simon Willison For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. Tha

неділя, 26 квітня 2026 р.

• Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Joy & Curiosity #83 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

пʼятниця, 24 квітня 2026 р.

• You should try contra dancing Ben Kuhn a story of middle school Ben • a not-very-illuminating description of the mechanics • flow, joy, and community • the antidote to the rest of life • how to try contra
• 2026.17: He Came, He Saw, He Cooked Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including the end of the Tim Cook era, Cursor and SpaceX, and the various fronts of Cold War 2.0.
• A Mutating AI Powered Virus George Hotz Moravec’s paradox is alive and well. Computers are proceeding through tasks in a reverse order to humans. They first learned to do calculations and win at board games, then they learned to write and t
• Greenfield and Iterative Development Jesse Vincent Crossposted from Prime Radiant's blog – I'm really excited about all of the stuff we are doing at Prime Radiant. For the most part we're blogging about it over there, but I'm going to continue to lift
• Why shoplifting is bad Noah Smith It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don't deserve it.
• Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career Sean Goedecke
• The people do not yearn for automation Simon Willison The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a
• DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price Simon Willison Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V
• russellromney/honker Simon Willison russellromney/honker "Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics" for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of it. The design of this looks very solid. It
• An update on recent Claude Code quality reports Simon Willison An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.
• Tim Cook's Apple Trung Phan A breakdown of Tim Cook's 15-year CEO run, taking Apple from $350 billion to $4 trillion: The Good, The Bad and the Apple Intelligence

четвер, 23 квітня 2026 р.

• Equity for Europeans Armin Ronacher If you spend enough time in US business or finance conversations, one word keeps showing up: equity. Coming from a German-speaking, central European background, I found it surprisingly hard to fully i
• An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment Ben Thompson An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google’s integration advantage.
• If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? Derek Thompson Or: How the 2020s broke our brains
• Sign of the future: GPT-5.5 Ethan Mollick One impressive step on the curve
• Positivity George Hotz Today is a good day for positivity. Sometimes I get so focused on the negative that I forget how good things actually are.
• Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web Simon Willison LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, us

середа, 22 квітня 2026 р.

• John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor Ben Thompson The elevation of John Ternus suggests that Apple's future is about hardware differentiation; then, the SpaceX-Cursor deal makes a lot of sense.
• I am building a cloud David Crawshaw I am building a cloud 2026-04-22 Today is fundraising announcement day. As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily
• Series A for exe.dev Exe.dev exe.dev has raised a Series A to build a development-focused cloud
• Do you really want the US to “win” AI? George Hotz By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist. I should love what’s happening. The AI I dreamed of my whole life is being built, engineer-type strongmen are sort of in charge, and people are saying out
• Silo Season Three! Hugh Howey Apple just announced the premiere date for Silo season three! The first of ten episodes drops on July 3rd. This is, by far, the best season yet. You all aren’t ready. The post Silo Season Three! appea
• Is China's soft power really rising, or is America's just crumbling? Noah Smith Chinamaxxing vs. Americaminning.
• Luddites and AI datacenters Sean Goedecke
• Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans Simon Willison Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans On the same day as Claude Code's temporary will-they-won't-they $100/month kerfuffle (for the moment, they won't), here's the latest on GitHub Copilot pricin
• Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing Simon Willison Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to ad

вівторок, 21 квітня 2026 р.

• Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing Ben Thompson Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.
• AI has no moat George Hotz SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60B. lol it’s just sad to watch this shit, Twitter was $44B. Like this has to be some scam I don’t understand. Nobody I know even uses Cursor any more.
• No, America is not in a "stealth manufacturing boom" Noah Smith Tariffs are canceling out the tailwinds.

понеділок, 20 квітня 2026 р.

• TSMC Earnings, New N3 Fabs, The Nvidia Ramp Ben Thompson TSMC's earnings suggest that the company's leadership is not truly bought into the AI growth story.
• Updated thoughts on industrial policy Noah Smith Economic consensus is changing, but it has a long way to go.
• Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons Simon Willison Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tel

неділя, 19 квітня 2026 р.

• What is freedom? George Hotz I had a conversation today with ChatGPT about freedom in the US vs Hong Kong. It said all these things about how Hong Kong was unfree, citing all these US expert organizations. But when we really got
• Headless everything for personal AI Simon Willison Headless everything for personal AI Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services direct
• Joy & Curiosity #82 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 18 квітня 2026 р.

• Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy Exe.dev do third-party integrations via HTTP header management
• Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments Sean Goedecke
• Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool Simon Willison Agentic Engineering Patterns > Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot. First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a
• Live Nation x Ticketmaster Monopoly, explained Trung Phan PLUS: Bieber Takes Over Coachella, PDFs, Jensen vs. Dwarkesh and Allbirds.

пʼятниця, 17 квітня 2026 р.

• 2026.16: Servers, Satellites, and Stars Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of April 13, 2026, including the cost of AI, what Amazon is doing with Globalstar, and Nico Rosberg on racing and investing.
• America lost the Mandate of Heaven George Hotz What does it mean if a country is winning?
• Five Simple Steps to Fix America George Hotz I’m coming back to America for the summer and thought I’d offer some tips to fix up the place before I get there. There’s so much winning left in America if it would just listen to some simple advice.
• Hasan Piker is bad for the Democrats Noah Smith Republicans embraced extremist ideology and it backfired on them. Democrats shouldn't follow suit.
• Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year Simon Willison This year's PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, Cal

четвер, 16 квітня 2026 р.

• An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win Ben Thompson An interview with former F1 driver and current venture capitalist Nico Rosberg about finding the mental edge and maximizing opportunities.
• The AI Vibe Shift Has Officially Arrived Derek Thompson We seem to be moving from a period of demand scarcity (not enough customers) to supply scarcity (not enough compute)
• Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects) Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• You are what you consume Noah Smith Personal identity should come from the things we get to choose for ourselves.

середа, 15 квітня 2026 р.

• Amazon Buys Globalstar, Delta to Add Leo, The Apple Angle Ben Thompson Apple's Globalstar acquisition is being framed as Apple versus SpaceX, but I think the real story is about Apple.
• High Amplitude Disagreeableness Stay SaaSy If you're going to make the most of startup people you need to know how to work with them. And if you want to work with startup people, you need to know how to manage their tendencies – including one

вівторок, 14 квітня 2026 р.

• OpenAI’s Memos, Frontier, Amazon and Anthropic Ben Thompson Breaking down OpenAI's internal memo about taking on Anthropic in the enterprise.
• zappa: an AI powered mitmproxy George Hotz Soon, AI will be good enough to interact with the Internet in an indistinguishable way from a human. This can be an amazing opportunity for liberation from all the people who are targeting your attent
• datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection Simon Willison datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection Datasette has long protected against CSRF attacks using CSRF tokens, implemented using my asgi-csrf Python library. T
• Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense Simon Willison Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense OpenAI's answer to Claude Mythos appears to be a new model called GPT-5.4-Cyber: In preparation for increasingly more capable models from OpenAI over t

понеділок, 13 квітня 2026 р.

• Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute Ben Thompson Does Aggregation Theory survive in a world of constrained compute? Yes, insomuch as controlling demand will give power over supply.
• What if a few AI companies end up with all the money and power? Noah Smith Contemplating the grim future of the "Robot Lords".
• Steve Yegge Simon Willison Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. The TL;DR is that Google engineerin

неділя, 12 квітня 2026 р.

• The ‘Everyone’s a Billionaire’ act George Hotz I heard that while this blog is good at diagnosing the problem, it falls short when proposing solutions. Today I’m proposing a solution that everyone (except the haters and losers) can get behind.
• Joy & Curiosity #81 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week