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середа, 16 вересня 2026 р.

• Salesforce AI Force, Agents as UI, The Race to Headless Ben Thompson Salesforce is abandoning UI as a moat, which is a very smart move because it's disappearing for everyone.
• The anti-American Right Noah Smith Bo French’s rightist movement is a dead end for our nation. Fortunately, it’s beatable.
• Jev means structured output is interesting again Sean Goedecke

вівторок, 15 вересня 2026 р.

• OpenAI Ads, Amazon Ads in ChatGPT, Walmart to Accept Apple Pay Ben Thompson ChatGPT ads are working, and solve Amazon's biggest problem with chatbots. Then, Walmart finally gives in to Apple Pay, because fighting the status quo is hard.
• Mayfly Chat: Transient Chat for Agents Exe.dev Click 'new channel,' give the URL to your agents, and voilà, they can talk to each other.
• Tell agents the why, not just the how Sean Goedecke

понеділок, 14 вересня 2026 р.

• Pacing the Frontier, AI’s Digital Limits, AI Commissars Ben Thompson Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier; it's an unrealistic proposal that seems mostly geared to political control of AI.
• Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob Charity Majors A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
• Bad Feelings Derek Thompson We spend so much of our life trying to deny, judge, or banish negative feelings. What would happen if we just tried to listen to them?
• Executing Commands With exe.dev's HTTPS API Exe.dev Run the same exe.dev commands you use over SSH—including commands on your VMs—through a simple HTTPS endpoint.
• Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion Noah Smith We need to make skeptics properly scared. And we need to make CHINA properly scared.
• Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models Sean Goedecke
• The contagion of fear Simon Willison The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade".

неділя, 13 вересня 2026 р.

• Query plan rewriting in PostgreSQL Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• AI is breaking our proxies for expertise Sean Goedecke

субота, 12 вересня 2026 р.

• Get the Middle East out of my politics! Noah Smith A manifesto.
• Don't build tools for AI agents Sean Goedecke
• Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work Simon Willison Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at . Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for
• OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May Simon Willison OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attac
• Joy & Curiosity #99 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

пʼятниця, 11 вересня 2026 р.

• 2026.37: Duo Threats Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of September 7, 2026, including the arrival of the Duo, AI that benefits humanity, and closing the book on a catastrophe.
• Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI Derek Thompson The end of summer brings a fresh throng of Americans to college campuses.
• Don't sleep on wrapture Simon Willison Graham Dumpleton's new monkey patching package wrapture is shaping up to be an indispensable tool for Python developers. I'm not sure why I've seen so little buzz about it! Graham has been posting new

четвер, 10 вересня 2026 р.

• The iPhone Duo, The Intelligent Personal Hub, Apple Watch Audio Intelligence Ben Thompson Apple once again demonstrated the power of integrating hardware and software, but it's biggest AI blindspot might be its belief in the primacy of apps.
• AI Safety Is Having a Moment Derek Thompson Why are the AI labs building a technology that they say might destroy the world?
• This Could’ve Been an Email Hugh Howey I get a lot of messages from lots of sources — most of them I don’t even see. Emails, DMs, comments from this site’s “contact me” form, etc. I can’t respond to all of them, but between other things it
• They really do think AI might kill everyone Sean Goedecke
• Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Simon Willison Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Shopify are moving from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for their native apps, for the exact reason you would expect: We decided
• Changelog – September 10, 2026 Val. Town Val Town Access, Deno 2.9, Business & Pro trials, YouTube series, and more

середа, 9 вересня 2026 р.

• OpenAI Does Math, Reward-Hacking, Meta Launches Personal Agent Ben Thompson OpenAI solving one of the most famous math problems is extremely impressive, and of little impact to most people's lives; Meta's Muse agent launch has the potential to be the exact opposite.
• Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration Noah Smith We need to make a principled stand instead of a tactical retreat.
• Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents Sean Goedecke

вівторок, 8 вересня 2026 р.

• Write Things Down Ben Thompson Writing things down is powerful, for humans and for AI; what comes first, however, is what to write, why to do it, and actually getting things done.
• Automatically detecting AI text in my browser Sean Goedecke
• On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Simon Willison On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seve

понеділок, 7 вересня 2026 р.

• AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs Noah Smith Happy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable.

неділя, 6 вересня 2026 р.

• Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Simon Willison Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Ch
• There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get Simon Willison My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs.[In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so
• Joy & Curiosity #98 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 5 вересня 2026 р.

• America is still beating China in the AI race Noah Smith The U.S. is staying ahead, though the costs of that lead are still unknown.
• Using Blender with coding agents on macOS Simon Willison TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac applica

пʼятниця, 4 вересня 2026 р.

• 2026.36: Friction and Feedback Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of August 31, 2026, including the market speaking, Apple finding religion, and society losing friction.
• An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment Ben Thompson An interview with OpenAI President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman about the history of OpenAI, Astra and alignment, and the weight of building the future.
• Okay, what now? Hugh Howey Whew. I feel like I can breathe, now that the last episode has aired. So much to keep in while you all were watching the weekly releases. So much to talk about now while we wait for season 4 to air! S
• Radical responsibility means treating people like tools Sean Goedecke
• The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting Simon Willison I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=
• OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis Simon Willison Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being tra

четвер, 3 вересня 2026 р.

• Why you won’t get a flying car Noah Smith A review of “Where is My Flying Car?”, by J. Storrs Hall, and some other thoughts on the future of technology.
• GPT‑6 Astra Simon Willison GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as thro

середа, 2 вересня 2026 р.

• Fable 5.1, Enterprise Frontier Safeguards Ben Thompson Fable 5.1 is out, and the hated Fable data retention policy is not just being altered, but entirely removed in the meantime. Plus, why increased caching is a win-win.
• Why Clickhouse and Agents are a Great Combo Exe.dev No ETL, no Databricks, no Snowflake—just the events and a reporting layer built on top.
• Season Three – Episode Ten Hugh Howey The finale of SILO season three lands tomorrow night on AppleTV (Thursday at 9pm Eastern). I’ve watched this episode four times already. There aren’t many episodes of TV that’ve ever made me want to d
• How to protect yourself from workslop Sean Goedecke
• Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics Simon Willison Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they
• Val Town Newsletter 27 Val. Town A summer of writing from the Val Town team
• Connecting every app to every other app Val. Town DCR and CIMD are solving OAuth's n² problem

вівторок, 1 вересня 2026 р.

• Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face Ben Thompson Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company does is about avoiding a consolidated world.
• We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet Derek Thompson An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero on how AI writing has flooded the internet, why it matters, and why it’s worth cleaning up
• Agent Grit Is a Double-Edged Sword Exe.dev The same behavior that makes an agent like Sol useful also makes it a security risk.
• Roundup #87: Technology BAD!! Noah Smith The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric Revolution
• Making Startups Powerful Paul Graham
• Codex bundles LibreOffice Simon Willison I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a f
• A docs page is a very long and complex search query to find wandering AI agents and make them route interested people to your company Val. Town On AEO

понеділок, 31 серпня 2026 р.

• Meta Settles, A Framework For Regulating Content, The Rest of Big Tech Ben Thompson Meta's settlement makes sense for all parties, but the entire sage highlights why any solution to regulating technology feels off.
• Agency and Agents Ethan Mollick From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
• Revisiting Joel's Test Exe.dev Joel Spolsky's twelve questions still hold, but agents demand nine more. Call it the Shelley test.
• AMC and SILO Hugh Howey Silo has become synonymous with AppleTV and their incredible slate of prestige science fiction. The support they’ve thrown at this show has been absolutely incredible. In fact, the show probably would
• Introducing wrapture Simon Willison Introducing wrapture New from Graham Dumpleton (of wrapt, mod_wsgi, and New Relic's Python agent fame), who describes Wrapture as taking the monkeypatching ideas from wrapt and extending them to apply

неділя, 30 серпня 2026 р.

• In defense of Asian American art Noah Smith People are creating some very interesting and original stuff!
• You have to beat the models at something Sean Goedecke
• Understanding ChatGPT Work Simon Willison OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so fa
• Joy & Curiosity #97 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 29 серпня 2026 р.

• Introducing Hy4 Preview Simon Willison Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face. Th

пʼятниця, 28 серпня 2026 р.

• 2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of August 24, 2026 including the breaker's advantage, the new battle for HDMI1, and how data center discourse ends.
• Here’s how we’re all going to die Noah Smith Spoiler: It’s vibe-coded superviruses.
• Selling out Sean Goedecke
• Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Simon Willison Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat a

четвер, 27 серпня 2026 р.

• Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively With Agents Exe.dev What I've learned from six months of coding with agents—and not writing a line of code by hand.
• Season Three – Episode Nine Hugh Howey Speculation is rampant after Apple released a series of teasers for tonight’s penultimate episode. There are dozens and dozens of incredible breakdowns out there. Amazing theories. Most of them wrong,
• Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Simon Willison Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently mad

середа, 26 серпня 2026 р.

• Apple Updates Mini and Studio, AI Computers, OpenAI Jalapeño Ben Thompson Apple and OpenAI have two completely different hardware announcements; both represent pressure on Nvidia.
• The death of Market Street Noah Smith How San Francisco turned its most iconic street into a giant empty scar.

вівторок, 25 серпня 2026 р.

• Netflix to Sell Streaming Services?, Streamers as Aggregators, Revisiting Roku Ben Thompson Netflix is considering selling other streaming services, and I think it's a good idea; it's also a let-down for Netflix's original goals and potential pivots.

понеділок, 24 серпня 2026 р.

• Autonomy and Innovation Ben Thompson Incentives favor offense when it comes to agentic cybersecurity; it's the same dynamic that will limit incumbents and fuel startups in the long run.
• What if our biggest problems aren’t economic? Noah Smith A new social challenge for a new century.

неділя, 23 серпня 2026 р.

• Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug Eaton Phil This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
• Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive Simon Willison Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive A few interesting numbers in this FT story gathered from "people with knowledge of the matter": Anthropic's "annualized rev
• Joy & Curiosity #96 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 22 серпня 2026 р.

• Are we watching the U.S. go bankrupt? Noah Smith No, but there are still reasons for concern.
• You should never be angry at work Sean Goedecke

пʼятниця, 21 серпня 2026 р.

• 2026.34: App Snore Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of August 17, 2026, including Apple making compromises in the EU, Truth (Social) and reconciliation, and August fun with the Clippers and Lakers.
• On-Call Is Now Theatre Boris Tane On-call was calibrated to the cost of waking up a human. That cost just went to zero. Self-operating software is coming, and your rotation is the last thing standing in its way.
• I vibe-coded a C compiler that can build SQLite Jesse Vincent A while back, Claude Opus built a pretty ambitious compiler. I didn't set out to do anything nearly as ambitious as Anthropic's. They were targeting multiple CPU architectures and they wanted to be ab
• Readers can't identify watermarked AI text Sean Goedecke

четвер, 20 серпня 2026 р.

• We Taught sqlc to Invalidate Our Caches Exe.dev How exe's proxies stay fast and correct without anyone hand-writing invalidation logic.
• The Next Anthology Hugh Howey My second anthology since MACHINE LEARNING will come out this year. Only a few of the stories have been published elsewhere. The rest are stories written since I’ve been on LUNA (the goal has been a s
• ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Simon Willison ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and con

середа, 19 серпня 2026 р.

• Apple Settles With E.U., U.S. App Store Fees, ATT Rules in Germany Ben Thompson Apple's App Store is finally facing the reality of lower fees, and the EU should be satisfied with its work; it's ok it's late.
• How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse Derek Thompson Or: A comprehensive explanation for why it’s time for everybody to clean up their password game, immediately
• NEO v0.3.0 Hugh Howey I’ve made some updates since the last blog post about NEO. You can download the current release here. Added the ability to drag and drop bookshelves (I’ve got four shelves going right now, so this is
• Economists should be worried about birth rates Noah Smith Don’t be so quick to dismiss the threat of an aging, declining population.
• Good writing is obvious, not original Sean Goedecke
• smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript Simon Willison Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com thr
• Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code Simon Willison Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple
• How MCP’s Core Maintainers leverage Val Town to develop the protocol Val. Town “It’s so easy to put up a quick MCP or API with Val Town”

вівторок, 18 серпня 2026 р.

• Nvidia Backs OpenAI Data Center, Anthropic News, Google Buys Spirit Airlines Data Ben Thompson Nvidia makes another deal, this time with a frontier lab; Anthropic's revenue continues to amaze; and maybe data finally is oil.
• Have an Agent Babysit Your Deployments Exe.dev The question is not: could a human do it better? The question is: in practice, will a human actually do it at all?
• Where to eat in San Francisco Noah Smith Part 1 of my personal recommendations.
• Help peer Sean Goedecke

понеділок, 17 серпня 2026 р.

• Stripe Acquiring OpenRouter, Aggregating AI?, Flipping the Business Model Ben Thompson Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter, an implicit bet on a future market of models and the chance at Aggregation.
• Christopher and Kevin Hugh Howey Two of my favorite people on this planet happen to also be two of my favorite photographers, and both are instrumental to how my life has unfolded. From the left we have Christopher Michel, Kevin Kell
• This Week on SILO Hugh Howey Only three episodes left in season 3, and things get crazy from here right up to the final shot. Can’t wait to discuss everything with you all after the season wraps. But this week is a very special e
• Meat (a short story) Hugh Howey I’m in San Francisco staying with my friend Kevin Kelly. He and I have been having conversations about AI and writing for many moons, way back before ChatGPT was a thing. Last night, before heading of
• My bad. Hugh Howey It was today that I found out just how much I’ve contributed to various LLMs. If you hate the way AI writing sounds, you’ll probably hate my books. And the whole em dash thing is seriously my fault. C
• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Simon Willison We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders fo