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неділя, 12 липня 2026 р.

• I have never been working class Noah Smith Unlike some American elites, I actually understand this fact.

субота, 11 липня 2026 р.

• AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence George Hotz 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 sh
• In defense of not understanding your codebase Sean Goedecke
• Joy & Curiosity #91 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

пʼятниця, 10 липня 2026 р.

• 2026.28: XBOX On the Rocks Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of July 6, 2026, including a word from Mark Zuckerberg*, pulling the plug on XBOX, and toilet talk.
• MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks Noah Smith The engine that powered history's greatest nation is in danger.

четвер, 9 липня 2026 р.

• Muse Image, Grok 4.5, Alex Karp on CNBC Ben Thompson The batter for verifiable data is increasingly defining the AI race, from Meta to Grok to the frontier labs.
• Is This the End of Booze? Derek Thompson The turn against moderate drinking has been sudden and sharp. But it's not often based in science.

середа, 8 липня 2026 р.

• XBOX Cuts; Bundling and the Internet Solvent; Transaction, Coordination, and Sunk Costs Ben Thompson Microsoft's Xbox division is conducting big layoffs, as the company deals with abject failure of its Game Pass strategy.
• Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars! Charity Majors Years ago I predicted that columnar storage would remake observability. What I didn't see coming: vendors would build it, nerf it, and sell a worse version back to you as "Datadog, but cheaper"
• JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad Noah Smith Making Americans poorer won't make our society better.
• Rewriting Bun in Rust Simon Willison Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post (since May 9th) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it
• Introducing GPT‑Live Simon Willison Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the abil
• Ownership Thornsten Ball Thoughts on ownership I sent to the Amp team in internal note

вівторок, 7 липня 2026 р.

• A Script for Mark Zuckerberg Ben Thompson A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
• Blog about things you don't understand yet Sean Goedecke

понеділок, 6 липня 2026 р.

• Building Software From My Phone Exe.dev My little town of San Anselmo has a delightful live music concert series in the summer. What they don’t have is a website that is easy to read on my phone. I was on vacation when this summer’s schedul
• No, China did not manage to avoid a crash Noah Smith But there are still things we can learn from how they manage their macroeconomy.
• C2PA only works if everything is signed Sean Goedecke
• tencent/Hy3 Simon Willison tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tence

неділя, 5 липня 2026 р.

• Some new agentic patterns Jesse Vincent You can also read this post on Prime Radiant's blog. Almost all of this post was written on June 1, before Anthropic shipped Claude Tag. Nothing I'm writing about uses (or is based on) Claude Tag At P

субота, 4 липня 2026 р.

• Better Models: Worse Tools Armin Ronacher 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[]
• The American age was the human age Noah Smith Reflections on 250 years.
• Better Models: Worse Tools Simon Willison Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in
• Joy & Curiosity #90 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

пʼятниця, 3 липня 2026 р.

• America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are Derek Thompson America in 1926 was obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar?
• Connect Your ChatGPT Subscription to exe.dev Exe.dev Use Shelley (and pi, and Codex) on exe.dev with the OpenAI models you already pay for.
• Syncing my clipboard between macOS and remote terminals Jesse Vincent As I've been spending more and more time with agentic development, it's more and more important to me that sessions run somewhere other than my laptop. For the last few months, that has meant running
• Open Source AI Gap Map Simon Willison Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($4
• Fable's judgement Simon Willison One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use

четвер, 2 липня 2026 р.

• In defense of AI mandates Charity Majors When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
• In defense of AI mandates (xpost) Charity Majors When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate might be the best and most honest way to fund it. Crossposted from here. I’ve been writing a series of pieces on lessons le
• Building an Intern David Cramer Junior is the open-source Slack agent I've been building at Sentry for the last four months. It seemed easy: put an agent in Slack, give it tools, ship it. This is the story of how it was anything but
• Understanding is the new bottleneck Geoffrey Litt July 2026 Understanding is the new bottleneck This is a written version of a talk I gave at the AI Engineer conference in July 2026, also shared as a tweet thread. Hot take: I think it's still importa
• Stop screeching about immigration, and get smart about it Noah Smith The culture war is making it impossible for us to deal with declining population.
• Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove Sean Goedecke
• Changelog - July 2, 2026 Val. Town Townie 5x cheaper, HTTP analytics, scoped blob, agent plugin, ...

середа, 1 липня 2026 р.

• Adding Features Without Interrupting Network Connections Exe.dev How exe.dev ships updates without breaking connections.
• Roundup #84: Bears on bikes Noah Smith Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs

вівторок, 30 червня 2026 р.

• It’s the Best Time Ever to Become a Millionaire by Working Alone Derek Thompson There are more—and richer—tiny companies. AI could be playing a big role.
• The twilight of the chatbots Ethan Mollick How work changes along the exponential
• Nano Banana 2 Lite Simon Willison Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale". I use
• What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Simon Willison What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning. I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official
• The AI Compass Simon Willison The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answe
• Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video Simon Willison shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to recor
• GLM-5.2, Sonnet 5 available in Townie Val. Town State of the chart

понеділок, 29 червня 2026 р.

• Summer Break: Week of June 29 Ben Thompson Stratechery is on summer break the week of June 29. There will be no Weekly Article or Updates. The next Update will be on Monday, July 6. Dithering, Sharp Tech, and Sharp China will also return the w
• Will AI make companies outsource more, or less? Noah Smith Maybe both.

неділя, 28 червня 2026 р.

• Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane Noah Smith A timely repost, with some updates.

субота, 27 червня 2026 р.

• The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Let’s Not Forget Hugh Howey Adapting a novel into film or TV requires a ton of decisions. What parts of the book are most important? How can we reduce the cast size, or the number of locations, or do things practically or with e
• Saying the obvious thing Sean Goedecke

пʼятниця, 26 червня 2026 р.

• 2026.26: Summer Vibes Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of June 22, 2026, including a vibe coding adventure, Apple in Europe, and a midsummer mailbag.
• The Democrats have their own MAGA now Noah Smith The shape of America's new Left is becoming clearer.
• AI inference is obviously profitable Sean Goedecke
• What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Simon Willison What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending
• Kirkland Signature: Jim Sinegal and the Making of Costco's $90B Private-Label Empire Trung Phan Since 1995, Costco has created over 1,000 Kirkland Signature items. The in-house brand was inspired by a single Forbes article and has turned into a $90B business, 1/3rd of Costco's total sales.

четвер, 25 червня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI Ben Thompson An interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field about building Figma, and why he believes AI gives the company a tailwind.
• The U.S. Went to War to Take Away Iran's Superweapon. It Gave Iran a New One. Derek Thompson Trump lost the country. The U.S. lost a half-hearted war. Israel lost an ally. The Middle East lost the illusion of security. Asia lost growth. Global trade lost a dependable artery.

середа, 24 червня 2026 р.

• My Vibe Coding Adventure, The App and the Experience, Ten Takeaways Ben Thompson My experience and reflections on vibe coding an app that I plan on actually using regularly.
• Is it ethical to use AI? Charity Majors On externalities and engagement, the problem with purity politics, and why we need to make AI boring again
• Make AI Boring Again (xpost) Charity Majors On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for Crossposted from here. I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot. Because of this, I have ne
• The Derek Thompson Substack Turns 1! Here's How the Newsletter Is Doing Derek Thompson Thank you for being a paid subscriber! And please use this birthday to tell me what you want this newsletter to grow into
• China is winning the other tech race Noah Smith They understand the importance of the electric revolution. America, so far, does not.
• simonw/browser-compat-db Simon Willison simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility

вівторок, 23 червня 2026 р.

• The Coming Loop Armin Ronacher I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the last months I have watched more and more people bu
• Memory Chips and China, Microsoft and Chinese Models Ben Thompson The big three memory makers may come to regret opening up the door to Chinese memory makers; Microsoft, meanwhile, is very incentivized to use Chinese models.
• Building the exe.dev iOS app Exe.dev the software workshop behind the iOS app
• Liminality George Hotz It’s crazy how much Fullmetal Alchemist mimics how AI is playing out. We pour human souls into a philosopher’s stone that we think will solve all our problems and cure death. It doesn’t exactly do thi
• What if every company had an internal hosting platform like Shopify's Quick? Val. Town Val Town is a sort of Third Space for non-prod code

понеділок, 22 червня 2026 р.

• Apple Price Increases, Apple Intelligence and the E.U. Ben Thompson Apple is (finally) raising prices, but they're not shipping Siri AI to the E.U.
• Prompt Injection as Role Confusion Simon Willison Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impac
• Riding Technology Waves Stay SaaSy Technology businesses are heavily influenced by waves of technology change, like the rise of the internet or AI. Knowing how to adjust strategy for these changes is one of the most important skills to

неділя, 21 червня 2026 р.

• The doom justifies the valuation George Hotz I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justif
• Pizza wheels are bad, Japanese toilets are great Noah Smith So why do Americans use the former and not the latter?

субота, 20 червня 2026 р.

• What defines Japan's national identity? Noah Smith A guest post by Hiroko Yoda.

пʼятниця, 19 червня 2026 р.

• 2026.25: The Stuff of Myth(os) Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of June 15, 2026, including Anthropic, e-commerce in the age of AI, and the NBA Finals being a perfect 10.
• Does anything I write matter anymore? Noah Smith Punditry in the age of populism, AI, and monetization.
• Pixar's $6 Billion Lunch Trung Phan In 1994, the Pixar team had a work lunch that created ideas for 6 films (which have grossed $6 billion at the box office).

четвер, 18 червня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Michael Morton About E-Commerce in the Age of AI Ben Thompson An interview with Michael Morton about e-commerce and AI, including the challenges of unfalsifiable bear cases, distribution versus referal models, grocery, and autonomous vehicles.
• Why the Healthiest Generation Is the Loneliest Derek Thompson Americans have never been healthier, or more alone. These things might be related.
• You don’t understand, prices can’t go down George Hotz Since at least 2008, every time there’s an option to either make the money track real value or make sure things don’t go down, they chose the latter. As a result, money is increasingly uncoupled from
• Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette Simon Willison Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I'm going to expand on that a little bit her

середа, 17 червня 2026 р.

• The State of Fable, The Jailbreak Problem, SpaceX Acquires Cursor Ben Thompson The administration is very likely wrong about Fable, but that is ultimately Anthropic's responsibility.
• Summoning the Demon George Hotz Watch you hit the stage like a willing bomb Strapped to crippled children It’s hard to watch you whore out your damaged pride I spit on what you’re building – The Stephen Hawking
• Talk of the Town - June 2026 Val. Town Wonderful vals from the community

вівторок, 16 червня 2026 р.

• Fox Buys Roku, The Problem With Fox’s Smart Strategy, Streaming That Works Ben Thompson The market hates Fox's acquisition of Roku, but the company is trading extraction from rights holders for leverage as a renter.
• Iran is Trump's Katrina Noah Smith Thoughts on the fallout from the Iran debacle.
• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense Simon Willison The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak" tha
• Don’t Stack Weaknesses Stay SaaSy Two weaks don't make alright.

понеділок, 15 червня 2026 р.

• Anthropic’s Safety Superpower Ben Thompson Anthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government.
• AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less Charity Majors If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
• AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (xpost) Charity Majors If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what’s happening now. Crossposted from AI demands more engineer
• Doing the rounds Eaton Phil I'm leaving New York this December for the research triangle area of North Carolina. I've considered leaving New York many times for the same reason: lower cost of living to help me start a company wi
• Announcing the exe.dev iOS app Exe.dev The exe.dev iOS app is in the App Store. Here's why we built it.
• Superpowers 6 Jesse Vincent You can also read this post on our corporate blog at https://primeradiant.com/blog TL;DR: Superpowers 6 is much, much faster and burns many fewer tokens to get the same high-quality outcomes. If you'r
• Will China, Inc. be zombified? Noah Smith A question surprisingly few people are asking.
• AI GPUs probably live longer than three years Sean Goedecke
• "They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Simon Willison "They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is the be

неділя, 14 червня 2026 р.

• Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Simon Willison Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption

субота, 13 червня 2026 р.

• Dangerous Technology For Americans Only Armin Ronacher There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leadership hav
• Degrowth would make Europeans into "Europoors" Noah Smith Why Europe must grow.
• Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide Simon Willison The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compat
• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Simon Willison Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to

пʼятниця, 12 червня 2026 р.

• 2026.24: Hey Siri, Tell Me a Fable Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of June 8, 2026, including Apple finally shipping Intelligence, Anthropic's fable, and the future of European industry.
• We're hiring for Superpowers Jesse Vincent We're hiring someone to help out full time with Superpowers community and code work. We're open to amazing non-traditional candidates. Ideally, you'd be in-person in the SF Bay Area. You can read abou
• OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context Simon Willison OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio model
• FIFA's World Cup Ticketing Fiasco, explained Trung Phan FIFA is maximizing ticket revenue at the expense of the fan experience. Shocker, the reason is pure greed.