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субота, 11 квітня 2026 р.

• Will Americans want more housing if it looks prettier? Noah Smith Maybe a little bit, but I have my doubts.

пʼятниця, 10 квітня 2026 р.

• 2026.15: Myth and Mythos Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of April 6, 2026, including Anthropic, The New York Times and another paradigm shift, and The New Yorker explains Sam Altman.
• Shohei Ohtani: The $125m Ad Man Trung Phan PLUS: Claude Mythos, Andy Weir's Writing Journey, AI-powered Masters App.

четвер, 9 квітня 2026 р.

• An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise Ben Thompson An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.
• How ‘Zombie Flow’ Took Over Culture Derek Thompson Or: If you're so smart, why aren't you happier?
• Yes, assimilation is good Noah Smith Building a unified American culture isn't about bullying people; it's about living together in peace.
• Code is inert. Val Town makes it ert Val. Town Whether or not you read the code, it's gotta be ert

середа, 8 квітня 2026 р.

• Mario and Earendil Armin Ronacher Today I’m very happy to share that Mario Zechner is joining Earendil . First things first: I think you should read Mario’s post . This is his news more than it is ours, and he tells his si
• Anthropic’s New Model, The Mythos Wolf, Glasswing and Alignment Ben Thompson Anthropic says its new model is too dangerous to release; there are reasons to be skeptical, but to the extent Anthropic is right, that raises even deeper concerns.
• The Substack-ification of American Religion Derek Thompson Why young men aren't really going back to church, why liberals are sadder than conservatives, and how "Substack-ification" is transforming the future of Christianity, media, and politics
• Before We Go Hugh Howey I dream about space a lot. I was obsessed with NASA as a kid. I used to build model rockets and see how far I could shoot them into the sky. My obsession with the cosmos in high school is the reason I
• I've sold out Mario Zechner I've sold out
• Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools Simon Willison Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currently "a private API preview to select users", but

вівторок, 7 квітня 2026 р.

• Anthropic’s New TPU Deal, Anthropic’s Computing Crunch, The Anthropic-Google Alliance Ben Thompson Anthropic needs compute, and Google has the most: it's a natural partnership, particularly for Google.
• Why 'Cost Disease' Is the Secret Force Behind America's Toxic Solitude Derek Thompson The screens got cheap. The shared experiences got expensive.
• Rules and Gates Jesse Vincent One of the first things I stumbled into as I was building what became Superpowers was the idea of a "gate" in a prompt. It's a term that Claude Code introduced me to, so clearly was part of
• I told you this would end badly Noah Smith In retrospect, there were signs that Trump was not a good leader.
• Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me Simon Willison Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos ( system card PDF ), today. They have instead made it available to a very restricted set of preview partners under their newly announced Proj
• Investor Update – March 2026 Val. Town 21% revenue growth. Everyone's building AI agents and internal tools. You should deploy them on Val Town

понеділок, 6 квітня 2026 р.

• OpenAI Buys TBPN, Tech and the Token Tsunami Ben Thompson OpenAI's purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services.
• Google AI Edge Gallery Simon Willison Google AI Edge Gallery Terrible name, really great app: this is Google's official app for running their Gemma 4 models (the E2B and E4B sizes, plus some members of the Gemma 3 family) directly on your

неділя, 5 квітня 2026 р.

• Roundup #80: All AI, all the time Noah Smith Growth; Biosecurity; Cybersecurity; Pseudonymity; Quant trading; AI adoption
• Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI Simon Willison Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I've seen in ages. They spent eight years thinking

субота, 4 квітня 2026 р.

• Absurd In Production Armin Ronacher 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 don̵

пʼятниця, 3 квітня 2026 р.

• 2026.14: Apple, Acceleration, and AI Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of March 30, 2026, including Formula 1 spinning off track, Apple's first and next 50 years, and security and AI.
• Who contributed to DataFusion 53 Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Salarymen, specialists, and small businesses Noah Smith Some brief thoughts on the (near) future of work.
• Programming (with AI agents) as theory building Sean Goedecke
• Vulnerability Research Is Cooked Simon Willison Vulnerability Research Is Cooked Thomas Ptacek's take on the sudden and enormous impact the latest frontier models are having on the field of vulnerability research. Within the next few months, coding
• The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering Simon Willison The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day , and it involved a sophisticated social engineer
• Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0 Steve Yegge

четвер, 2 квітня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Asymco’s Horace Dediu About Apple at 50 Ben Thompson An interview with Asymco's Horace Dediu about his career in tech, Apple's first 50 years, and the prospects for the next 50, particularly in the face of AI
• A Transparent UI Pattern Exe.dev exe.dev's UI shows you the command it's running, so you always know how to script it.
• Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast Simon Willison I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We've passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines . It's available on
• Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Simon Willison Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Four new vision-capable Apache 2.0 licensed reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind, sized at 2B, 4B, 31B, plus a 26B-A4B Mixture-of-Experts. Google em
• The Disneyland Dilemma Trung Phan Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete the cable-to-streaming transition?
• Changelog — Apr 2, 2026 Val. Town Better Townie system prompt, std/oauth, migrating from Clerk to BetterAuth, Deno 2.7.5, and more

середа, 1 квітня 2026 р.

• Axios Supply Chain Attack, Claude Code Code Leaked, AI and Security Ben Thompson AI is going to be bad for security in the short-term, but much better than humans in the long-term.
• How Japan has changed in the last 20 years Noah Smith Reflections on a unique nation.

вівторок, 31 березня 2026 р.

• Apple’s 50 Years of Integration Ben Thompson Apple has survived 50 years by being the only company integrating hardware and software; if the company loses because of AI it will be because the point of integration changes.
• Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces Ethan Mollick We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough
• Prompt engineering is dead, but Claude still tries Exe.dev Agents have good judgment now. Delegation beats micromanagement.
• Agentic slop PRs Jesse Vincent Over the past couple of months, Superpowers has gotten popular. Like really popular. It now has over 120,000 GitHub stars. That's more than 100x as many stars as my second-most-popular project, and pu
• Vibe Maintainer Steve Yegge

понеділок, 30 березня 2026 р.

• Spring Break Ben Thompson Stratechery is on a bit of a disjointed Spring Break, as my usual week off will be spread out: I will return to my usual posting schedule on Tuesday, March 31. All other Stratechery Plus content, incl
• Is the Smartphone Theory of Everything Wrong? A Comprehensive Investigation Derek Thompson Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe. Here's 5,000 words on who's right and who's wrong.
• Maybe you should have bought an electric car Noah Smith The Iran War is illustrating the cost of anti-EV nonsense.

неділя, 29 березня 2026 р.

• Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Joy & Curiosity #80 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 28 березня 2026 р.

• Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Noah Smith A timely repost, with some needed clarifications.

пʼятниця, 27 березня 2026 р.

• 2026.13: So Long to Sora Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of March 23, 2026, including saying RIP to Sora, the 2026 Bullseye list, and Arm's big shift.
• What Is Anthropic Thinking? Derek Thompson An interview with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the specter of AI-fueled mass unemployment, the future of agents, and how to raise children in an age of super-intelligence
• Everyone is building a software factory Exe.dev Is exe.dev the compute primitive you've been waiting for?
• Working on products people hate Sean Goedecke

четвер, 26 березня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas About Selling Chips Ben Thompson An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas about the company's decision to not just license IP but make their own chips.
• We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America Derek Thompson I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
• AI has the worst sales pitch I've ever seen Noah Smith "Our product will make you economically useless, and possibly kill you" is not a value proposition.
• Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code Sean Goedecke
• Jensen Manifesting The Future Trung Phan Notes from Nvidia GTC 2026 (and Jensen's approach to comms).
• Talk of the Town — Mar 2026 Val. Town Calling vals with GPT Realtime 1.5, NYC doorman, email and voice agents, and more

середа, 25 березня 2026 р.

• Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems Ben Thompson Arm is selling its own chips, not just licensing IP. It's a big change compared to Arm's history, but not surprising given how computing is evolving.
• Tracing Sucks David Cramer I keep ending up in the same place: distributed tracing sounds great, but the instrumentation is a mess, the cost is obscene, and most of what I actually want is structured logs with a trace_id attach
• Classical Software Jesse Vincent One of the things that keeps coming up in my conversations about AI and software is the difference between software with an agent or LLM in the loop and what we've always thought of as "software&
• Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Mario Zechner Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
• The economic consequences of the Iran war Noah Smith The U.S. is likely to get off easy, while others will bear the brunt.

вівторок, 24 березня 2026 р.

• There isn't always a "long arc" of morality Noah Smith Progressives should beware the idea that history will deliver them inevitable victories.

неділя, 22 березня 2026 р.

• A conversation with Claude Noah Smith In which a robot and I have a fun dorm-room chat about the future of science.
• Joy & Curiosity #79 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 21 березня 2026 р.

• China is quietly looking weaker Noah Smith Xi Jinping's paranoia, rapidly changing technology, and the limitations of China's system could cut short the Chinese Century.

пʼятниця, 20 березня 2026 р.

• Some Things Just Take Time Armin Ronacher Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only wa

четвер, 19 березня 2026 р.

• Developer Spotlight: Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Save us, Digital Cronkite! Noah Smith Social media tore our society apart. Perhaps AI can put it back together.

середа, 18 березня 2026 р.

• ‘Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question.’ Derek Thompson The evidence that artificial intelligence is a big fat bubble has, confusingly, gotten much stronger and much weaker at the exact same time.

вівторок, 17 березня 2026 р.

• The Most Important Chart in AI Is Also the Most Misunderstood Derek Thompson When a metric becomes a meme, it gains in popularity what it loses in precision.
• Roundup #79: The revenge of macroeconomics Noah Smith Ehrlich; AI and knowledge; The Strait of Hormuz; Government debt and inflation; Japanese robots; Democrats and taxes; Smartphones
• Investor Update – Feb 2026 Val. Town Our first public investor update

неділя, 15 березня 2026 р.

• The future isn't what it used to be Noah Smith Thoughts on extrapolative expectations.
• Joy & Curiosity #78 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 14 березня 2026 р.

• Slop Creep: The Great Enshittification of Software Boris Tane Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.
• Big tech engineers need big egos Sean Goedecke

пʼятниця, 13 березня 2026 р.

• Why Can't People Agree on a Shared Set of Facts? Derek Thompson Nir Eyal on the power of belief, the atheist's case for prayer, and the origins of self-confidence

четвер, 12 березня 2026 р.

• Optimizing Content for Agents David Cramer There is a lot of bad discourse around whether we should optimize content for agents at all, and most of it misses the point. We already shape content for humans, and agents are no different. At Sentr
• Mojo's not (yet) Python Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• The Shape of the Thing Ethan Mollick Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
• San Francisco's urban revival is in danger Noah Smith If the Board of Supervisors falls to the Progressives, the old dysfunction will return.
• Management In The Age Of AI Stay SaaSy Management is dead. Long live managers.

середа, 11 березня 2026 р.

• This War's Economic Crisis Could Get Much Worse—For the U.S. and the Whole World Derek Thompson This isn't just about the price of oil. It's about everything oil becomes—fertilizer, AI chips, plastic—and the cost of snapping the achilles heel of the global shipping economy

вівторок, 10 березня 2026 р.

• Are we in the foothills of World War 3? Noah Smith The coalitions are hardening, and the weapons are being deployed.
• Newsletter 26 Val. Town Townie v5, MCP, Revamped SQLite, Teams, LSP, and more

понеділок, 9 березня 2026 р.

• Your Data is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) (xpost) Charity Majors Your Data Is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) In logs as in life, the relationships are the most important part. AI doesn’t fix this. It makes it worse. (cross-posted) Af
• February update Exe.dev Roundup of exe.dev work in February.
• Superpowers 5 Jesse Vincent Superpowers 5 is out today. Visual Brainstorming # By far, my favorite new feature is the "Visual Brainstorming" companion tool, which grew out of my frustration with the ASCII art that Clau