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понеділок, 15 червня 2026 р.

• 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
• AI GPUs probably live longer than three years Sean Goedecke

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.

четвер, 11 червня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute Ben Thompson An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry.
• A Bigger Toolbox for MCP David Cramer Search and execute primitives are how MCP gets useful at scale. You can expose thousands of capabilities without dumping every tool definition into the model context.
• Why Do the Best Leaders Fail at the Most Important Job? Derek Thompson What do Marcus Aurelius, Bob Iger, Bill Belichick, and William Shawn have in common? Succession failure.
• This week in infrastructure Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• AI will be massively deflationary George Hotz The funny thing about Anthropic haters is that they still mostly believe Anthropic’s marketing. They think Claude is a recursively self-improving silicon God, and that we are all a couple refusals awa
• Claude Code plugin installs over time Jesse Vincent This afternoon, I pulled some data from backups of my .claude directory to build a visualization of Claude Code plugin installs over time. You can explore the data at https://primeradiant.com/claude-p
• Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones? Noah Smith We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind.
• Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive Simon Willison After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its
• Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Simon Willison Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them
• Introducing Scoped Blob Storage Val. Town Every val gets its own blobs

середа, 10 червня 2026 р.

• Gaslighting Openness Armin Ronacher I have been a staunch supporter of Open Source for a long time, including experiments in funding it. I’m a true believer in the idea that Open Source always wins in the long run, but not automatically
• Fable 5, Anthropic Alignment, AI Tiers Ben Thompson Fable 5 is the public version of Mythos, and while it is very capable it sets some troubling new precedents.
• Sharing is Caring Exe.dev At exe.dev, sharing a web app you built is as easy as forwarding an email.
• Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system Noah Smith A repost from the Noahpinion archive.
• DiffusionGemma Simon Willison DiffusionGemma Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I tried the preview at the time and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Goog
• If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know Simon Willison If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know Jonathon Ready highlights one of the more eyebrow-raising details from the 319 page system card for Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Here's a longer excerpt,
• Investor Update – May 2026 Val. Town Potluck joined the team. Claude became our biggest source of new users

вівторок, 9 червня 2026 р.

• The iPhone’s Last Stand Ben Thompson Siri isn't state of the art, but as long as it works — and it appears it does — it's good enough for the consumer market.
• What it feels like to work with Mythos Ethan Mollick Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
• Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 Simon Willison I didn't have early access to today's Claude Fable 5 release, but I've spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is something of a beast. It's slow,
• Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView Simon Willison TIL: Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView I've been really enjoying AgentsView by Wes McKinney as a tool for exploring my token usage across different coding agents running on my laptop. C

понеділок, 8 червня 2026 р.

• Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics Ben Thompson Google's deal with SpaceX, and Broadcom's earnings, both seem bullish for Nvidia. Then, what I'm looking for at WWDC.
• Roundup #83: I told you so! Noah Smith Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
• Working with product managers Sean Goedecke
• Doing nothing at work Sean Goedecke
• Siri AI at WWDC 2026 Simon Willison Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict "I'll believe it when I see it" policy for everything they announce

неділя, 7 червня 2026 р.

• Replace your CI with a merge queue Exe.dev Agent development means after-the-fact CI no longer works.
• Stairway to Heaven George Hotz They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly wha
• Joy & Curiosity #89 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 6 червня 2026 р.

• Communities of Not Armin Ronacher 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
• Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Our Great War is a Spiritual War George Hotz 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 w
• Why Europe should put up trade barriers against Chinese goods Noah Smith There are benefits far beyond protectionism.
• Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM Simon Willison I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been lookin

пʼятниця, 5 червня 2026 р.

• 2026.23: Power Shifts Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of June 1, 2026, including Google and Microsoft, YouTubers taking over Hollywood, and a guide to the NBA Finals.
• OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode Simon Willison OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February, but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business ac
• Blumhouse: How Jason Blum Created A Hollywood Horror Hit Machine Trung Phan Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
• The Val Town plugin for coding agents Val. Town 100ms deploys from Claude Code, Codex & Cursor

четвер, 4 червня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies Ben Thompson An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex, Software, and a potential new agentic platform.
• Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence Ethan Mollick Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
• I'm kind of over the whole "Anti-monopoly" movement Noah Smith The struggle against excessive corporate power needs better standard-bearers.
• Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past Sean Goedecke
• What It’s Like to IPO Stay SaaSy This is what it's like for your company to go public.

середа, 3 червня 2026 р.

• The Nvidia AI PC, Project Solara, Microsoft AI Ben Thompson The Nvidia AI PC feels like a relic of another AI era; Microsoft's vision for devices at Build was much more compelling.
• Why Are Men So Bad at Making—and Keeping—Friends? Derek Thompson There are two problems with the famous “male loneliness crisis”—the loneliness part and the male thing.
• Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs Simon Willison Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would ha

вівторок, 2 червня 2026 р.

• The Google Capital Company Ben Thompson Google has issued equity to Berkshire Hathaway in a deal that signals far more demand and a future where capital is the ultimate commodity.
• AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy (xpost) Charity Majors Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. There is a way to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.. Xpo
• Silo Season 3 Trailer Hugh Howey GOOSEBUMPS! I can’t wait for you all to see where this goes. The post Silo Season 3 Trailer appeared first on Hugh Howey.
• How much more software do we really need? Noah Smith Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
• Microsoft's new MAI models Simon Willison Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 1T parameters, 35B active, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (137B Parameters, 5B active, "purp
• Building Software Is Learning Thornsten Ball An internal note to the Amp team on feedback and shipping faster

понеділок, 1 червня 2026 р.

• YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar Ben Thompson YouTubers are ruling the box office, and it shouldn't be a surprise: succeeding on YouTube is a much higher bar than the gates that currently govern Hollywood.
• Weird projects I shipped with AI Sean Goedecke

неділя, 31 травня 2026 р.

• The Tragedy of the Commoner Hugh Howey The Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of game theory’s all-time great puzzles. It goes like this: Two men are taken into custody for a crime. The cops have a little evidence, enough to put both men away for a
• The way we treat pigs is a sin Noah Smith The practice of "crating" is torture, plain and simple. Voters want to end it, but Congress might not let them.
• Build agents, not pipelines Sean Goedecke
• The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription Simon Willison The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most o
• Joy & Curiosity #88 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 30 травня 2026 р.

• How to build a shitty robot Mario Zechner A work in progress post about building a shitty robot.
• Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker Simon Willison Research: Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker Datasette Lite is my version of Datasette that runs entirely in the browser using Pyodide in WebAssembly. When I first
• How we contain Claude across products Simon Willison How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented, and in the absence of detailed documentation it's hard to know h
• I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline Simon Willison I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is not one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, star
• The Ferrari Luce's EV Gamble Trung Phan Designed with Jony Ive, the luxury carmaker's first EV (the $640K Ferrari Luce) is pissing off OGs but the play for new buyers (under-40 tech, China) looks like a reasonable bet.

пʼятниця, 29 травня 2026 р.

• 2026.22: Luceing Their Mind Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of May 25, 2026, including why everyone hates Luce, how to monetize AI answers, and social mobility in China.
• The AI Boom Has Entered Its 'Wait, Is This Worth It?' Era Derek Thompson The great AI cost panic of 2026 is upon us
• America needs liberal nationalism back Noah Smith The most successful ideology of the 20th century is still right for the 21st.
• Anthropic's run-rate revenue hits $47 billion Simon Willison The most interesting thing about Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement is this line (emphasis mine): Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers,

четвер, 28 травня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Eric Seufert About Models and Ads, and AI’s Upside for Humanity Ben Thompson An Interview with Eric Seufert about building models for generative AI, why Meta's foundational models are so important, and why understanding advertising leads to optimism about humanity's future.

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.
• sqlite AGENTS.md Simon Willison sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It inc
• I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit Simon Willison Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staf
• How Growbots uses Claude Code + Val Town MCP for frictionless deployment Val. Town If Claude Code is Amazon, Val Town is same-day shipping

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