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середа, 27 травня 2026 р.

• The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space Ben Thompson There isn't a financial model that justifies the SpaceX IPO, but data centers in space are plausible, and that might be enough.
• Your future job will be to keep AI on task Noah Smith The one thing humans will always be comparatively good at is knowing what we want.

вівторок, 26 травня 2026 р.

• Clanker: A Word For The Machine Armin Ronacher In my last post I used the word “clanker” as an alternative to “agent” quite consistently and probably excessively. That choice ended up attracting a lot more attention than I expected in the Hacker N
• Nvidia Earnings, The AI Stack, Nvidia’s New Reporting Ben Thompson Nvidia is changing its reporting to delineate between hyperscaler sales — where Nvidia is fighting commoditization — and everyone else, where Nvidia runs the whole stack.
• Choosing to Stay Human Ethan Mollick 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:
• The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin Max Wolf Why Hy3?
• The pressure Simon Willison The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incomi
• Changelog - May 26, 2026 Val. Town The month of Claude Code. Plus, redesigning the core val UI

понеділок, 25 травня 2026 р.

• Are you tired of the Trump era yet? Noah Smith Every few weeks there's a new disaster that would have sunk any other president.
• Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI Simon Willison Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's

неділя, 24 травня 2026 р.

• Building Pi With Pi Armin Ronacher Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is still Mario’s project. He has been living with its issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of the new fo
• The Eternal Sloptember George Hotz I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to real
• Joy & Curiosity #87 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 23 травня 2026 р.

• There is only one bad AI scenario George Hotz I’ve pushed AI doomers on how exactly the AI kills us, and I’ve never heard a good answer. I think Skynet style scenarios where humanity is largely opposed to an out of control AI are science fiction
• America is heading for a debtpocalypse Noah Smith But if we act now, we can avert disaster.
• On the <dl> Simon Willison On the I learned a few new-to-me things about the element from this article by Ben Meyer: A can be followed by multiple You can optionally group the and elements in a
• SpaceX: The AI IPO Trung Phan Notes on SpaceX's S-1 document (and Elon's bid for a $1.75 trillion valuation)

пʼятниця, 22 травня 2026 р.

• 2026.21: The Data Center Veto Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of May 18, 2026, including data center discontent, agent economics, and slime mold.
• FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Simon Willison FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group we

четвер, 21 травня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Parallel Founder Parag Agarwal About Valuing Content on the Agentic Web Ben Thompson An interview with Parallel founder Parag Agarwal about valuing content and incentivizing its creation in a world of agents (plus questions about Twitter).
• Can America Escape the Cycle of Vicemaxxing? Derek Thompson Donald Trump did not invent political corruption. But he may be accelerating something more dangerous: the collapse of universal moral standards into a culture of endless special exceptions.
• Catastrophes in Game Publishing Hugh Howey My first game console was Pong, which was THE first game console. Pong was created a few years before I was born, but by the time I could twiddle a knob it was the only thing in the household to jack
• Roundup #82: Staring in wonder at the world Noah Smith Crime; ICE raids; AI hate; Oligarchy; AI math; Small businesses; Neoliberal Claude; Slacker AGI; The Technium
• The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work Sean Goedecke
• Datasette Agent Simon Willison We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent repre

середа, 20 травня 2026 р.

• Google I/O, World Models, I/O Spaghetti Ben Thompson Google I/O put AI everywhere, for better and for worse. Meanwhile, is DeepMind aligned with Google's business objectives?
• Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• What will better AI mean? George Hotz I thought about posting this paper but rebranding it as the Claude Mythos technical report. As far as I can tell, there’s no secret tricks the US frontier labs have, and that basically describes how M
• Prompts are technical debt too Sean Goedecke
• Google I/O, Gemini Spark, Antigravity Simon Willison It's hard to find much to write about Google I/O this year because I have a policy of not writing about anything that I can't try out myself, and a lot of the big announcements are "coming soon". I ac

вівторок, 19 травня 2026 р.

• Personal Day Ben Thompson Personal Day — No Update
• All non-drone militaries are obsolete Noah Smith All warfare is drone warfare now.
• The last six months in LLMs in five minutes Simon Willison I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2
• Slow Mode Val. Town Val Town is the Salt Fat Acid Heat of vibe coding platforms

понеділок, 18 травня 2026 р.

• Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem Ben Thompson There are understandable reasons for people to oppose data centers; the only solution that will work is simply paying them off.
• The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think Derek Thompson Everybody knows about the decline in birthrates. Fewer people understand why—or just how significantly it could transform society in the next few decades.
• Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon Sean Goedecke

неділя, 17 травня 2026 р.

• Dating advice for men Noah Smith Don't believe the incel stuff. Romance is very possible for regular, average men.
• How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 Sean Goedecke
• GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Simon Willison GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in res
• Joy & Curiosity #86 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 16 травня 2026 р.

• DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again Sean Goedecke
• Warelay -> OpenClaw Simon Willison In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this firs

пʼятниця, 15 травня 2026 р.

• 2026.20: Shifting Alliances in a Changing World Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of May 11, 2026, including a new kind of computing, Elon Musk, and 360 degrees of US-China relations.
• Yes, Europeans are poorer than Americans Noah Smith Comfortable, leisurely, pleasant stagnation is just not good enough for the modern age.
• Swatch, Audemars Piguet and The Dream Equation Trung Phan The Swatch x Audemars Piguet collaboration is a great window into the psychology of luxury marketing, including two key concepts: the Dream Equation and the 3% Rule.

четвер, 14 травня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Ben Thompson at the MoffettNathanson Media, Internet & Communications Conference Ben Thompson An interview with me about the implications of the compute shortage on Aggregation Theory, consumer AI, and more.
• The Six Megatrends That Define 2026 Derek Thompson Every week, I save dozens of screenshots of charts, essay passages, science and economics papers, and tweets.

середа, 13 травня 2026 р.

• The Deployment Company, Back to the 70s, Apple and Intel Ben Thompson OpenAI is forming a new company to deploy AI, and the other labs aren't far behind, reinforcing the thesis that AI's impact will require top-down implementation. Then, Apple has economic reasons to wo
• Trump actually started to decouple America from China Noah Smith The "economic divorce" between the two countries is proceeding slowly, but it is proceeding.
• AI datacenters in space do not have a cooling problem Sean Goedecke

вівторок, 12 травня 2026 р.

• SpaceX and Anthropic, xAI’s Two Companies, Elon Musk and SpaceXAI’s Future Ben Thompson The Anthropic xAI deal is shocking but not surprising: Musk should double down on serving other companies.
• Thinking Machines and interaction models Sean Goedecke
• Talk of the Town — May 2026 Val. Town Claude managed agents, OpenAI voice agents, domaining, and more

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