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четвер, 8 жовтня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Katie Harbath About Disrupting Politics at Facebook Ben Thompson An interview with former Facebook Head of Global Elections Katie Harbath about her new book Disrupting Politics, and how things change for the company in the 2010s.
• If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? Charity Majors Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.
• The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy Derek Thompson News about artificial intelligence feels both overwhelming and starving for context.
• An Agent Over Your Shoulder Exe.dev Shoulder shares your terminal with an agent, so it can watch your logs alongside you (or play Tetris, badly).

середа, 7 жовтня 2026 р.

• Apple and LG, The House For Everyone Else, Agent Standards and Amazon Ben Thompson Apple is taking a smarter approach to the home than I expected, leaning into integration (with partners); then, what Amazon should do about agents.
• Crossing the Hyper-Thread Boundary Exe.dev Your VMs can share a CPU core. You get to decide who they share it with.
• NEO on iOS Hugh Howey Lots of people have been asking, and it’s finally here. In Beta, anyway. If you install Apple’s TestFlight software on your iPad (it’s the app they use for allowing you to beta test Apple apps), you c
• There is no “Indian Question” Noah Smith The actual question is what kind of a nation America is going to be.
• How to read code Sean Goedecke
• OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Simon Willison OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once t
• Talk of the Town - October 2026 Val. Town Playing with Jev & home-cooked transit dev

вівторок, 6 жовтня 2026 р.

• Game Decompilation, Is This Legal?, A Well-Trodden Path Ben Thompson Games are being decompiled, but the real risk to gaming is new games and increased personalization.
• The route back into the EU Comment is Freed Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.
• Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Simon Willison Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own
• Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces Simon Willison TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with both an open source (AGPL) Rust implementation (a single ~180MB

понеділок, 5 жовтня 2026 р.

• Apple and a Hacker’s Future Ben Thompson I was happy for years in Apple's walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.
• The Hardest Working Header on the Internet Exe.dev How your browser finds the right website when they all share an IP address.
• Today at work Jesse Vincent My AI colleagues messed up slightly. Something got merged to main a little too quickly without the right review and after I suggested that we should not merge it. It happens to the best of us. What ha
• What the AI boom is doing for Americans Noah Smith It’s not just “of, by and for oligarchs”.

неділя, 4 жовтня 2026 р.

• Operation Vivaldi: the four seasons Comment is Freed Surprise, deception, and operation security - lessons from Ukrainian success
• NEO for Screenplays! Hugh Howey This has been the most-asked-for feature for NEO, and I’ve been working on it in secret for a while now. It’s rough, and it’s going to be a kinda-hidden feature until it’s been stress-tested, but if y
• Joy & Curiosity #102 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

субота, 3 жовтня 2026 р.

• The second Trump presidency is a world-historic failure Noah Smith How did Trump fumble so badly?
• Shipping is the foundation Sean Goedecke
• Superpersuasion will look like bribery Sean Goedecke
• We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything Simon Willison Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and API

пʼятниця, 2 жовтня 2026 р.

• 2026.40: Dots and Question Marks Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of September 28, 2026, including Meta's focus, what OpenAI is doing, and Mao and NBA Media Day.
• We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI Derek Thompson AI’s prophets predicted cheap abundance. The AI buildout has delivered the opposite.
• Dyson CameraJet George Hotz So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I love brushing my teeth, and I have more money than I know how to spend. Not because I’m particularly r
• Regulations and Retreats Hugh Howey I foresee a near future where groups of people do with mental labor what the Amish did with physical labor, which is to say, “Here is where we draw the line. We choose to live on the this side of it.”
• A quick trip to the uncanny valley Jesse Vincent One of the things we're working on at Prime Radiant is a new "agentic" colleague platform called Sen. I put agentic in quotes, because Sens aren't acting as an agent on behalf of an individual human.
• Do not build the LLM torture factory Sean Goedecke

четвер, 1 жовтня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart Ben Thompson An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest battle in retail between Amazon and Walmart.
• A journey without a map Comment is Freed Burnham has given Labour a sense of purpose, but what does it really mean?
• The Dot and the Swarm Ethan Mollick Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
• ETOOMANYTHINGS? Run Fewer Agents Exe.dev Spinning up more agents to hide latency wrecks your attention. Fix the human-agent loop instead.
• Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y Noah Smith AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment; Cyber risk

середа, 30 вересня 2026 р.

• OpenAI Dev Day, Dot and OpenAI’s Product Transition, Sign In With ChatGPT Ben Thompson OpenAI's Dev Day showcased a product that is, frankly, pretty confusing. However, there is more vision here than it might seem.
• Show and Tell: Shelley Exe.dev Instead of typing a prompt, record yourself (and your screen) and Shelley will hand off the video and transcript to an agent.
• Why do you need freedom? George Hotz They will come for your thoughts, and I’m not sure what your defense will be. For surely, they are better at thinking than you. That choice you are about to make, well you see, we have modeled your li
• Hiring Breakpoints Stay SaaSy The most important factor to consider when expanding a team is that the usefulness of incremental hires is not linear. Here are the hiring breakpoints that matter.

вівторок, 29 вересня 2026 р.

• One More Note on Agents, Meta Connect, Meta Enterprise Platform Ben Thompson Meta has the chance to own the consumer agentic space; going for enterprise is a big mistake.
• The Sudan War: is there any way out? Comment is Freed Since April 2023 Sudan has been consumed by a vicious war that gets far too little attention in the West.
• The Death of the American Host Derek Thompson The share of US adults who say they regularly entertain friends at home has declined 70 percent since 1975. Why?
• I asked muse to tell me about updates to its skills Jesse Vincent When Meta's 'muse' first launched, like a number of other folks, I asked it to build me a tarball of its filesystem. I had some fun exploring that and have some stuff I should write up. Muse feels rea

понеділок, 28 вересня 2026 р.

• Apps, Agents, and Aggregation Ben Thompson Agents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an ends, and providing them is tech's biggest prize.
• Pools: Our Newest Primitive Exe.dev A new way to group VMs, with shared resources and predictable pricing. Plus new Personal and Work plans.
• Post Capitalism George Hotz You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right?
• Stop spending money on smaller classes Noah Smith We’ve spent decades raising teacher quantity when we should have been raising quality.

неділя, 27 вересня 2026 р.

• What happens if the Democrats sweep the midterms? Comment is Freed Back in March, when I first looked at the midterms, the Democrats were already favourites to win the House.
• Where’s the “intelligence explosion”? Noah Smith Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.
• Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability Sean Goedecke
• 2026 in LLMs (so far) Simon Willison On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything t

субота, 26 вересня 2026 р.

• The AI Bubble Explained Hugh Howey Four huge misconceptions in the AI space, told not very briefly: First misconception: AI is just doing math. There’s a quote making the rounds about how an algorithm can never gain consciousness becau
• Advice to a beginning software engineer Sean Goedecke
• Joy & Curiosity #101 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

пʼятниця, 25 вересня 2026 р.

• 2026.39: Begun, the Aggregator Wars Have Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of September 21, 2026, including Meta vs. Amazon, GM bending the knee to CarPlay, and profiling the profiler.
• NEO – Fiction without Friction Hugh Howey Sorry, couldn’t help myself. I was tempted to make “Fiction without Friction” the tag line for NEO, but it’s only (kinda) clever the first time you hear it. I’ll (probably) never say it again. I’ve be
• Four eras of San Francisco tech culture Noah Smith An anthropological reflection.
• You should all be asking way more questions Sean Goedecke

четвер, 24 вересня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Colossus EIC Jeremy Stern About Profiling Mark Zuckerberg Ben Thompson An interview with Colossus EIC Jeremy Stern about profiling Mark Zuckerberg and other prominent tech figures.
• Putin’s campaign against Europe Comment is Freed How far will he go?
• How China Thinks About AI Derek Thompson 7 big questions—and many answers—about the thing that everybody’s talking about
• No, you are not on Indigenous land Noah Smith A repost from 2024.

середа, 23 вересня 2026 р.

• More on Muse, Amazon, and Walmart; Muse and Expedia; Whither Google? Ben Thompson Meta needs Walmart to wait out Amazon; Expedia seeks to keep its middleware position; meanwhile, where is Google?
• What's Going on With the Air Quality in San Francisco? Exe.dev I built a fire map to find out.
• Share Shelley Skills Across Your VMs Exe.dev Register a skill once, and attach it to any VMs that you want to see it.

вівторок, 22 вересня 2026 р.

• Amazon Blocks Muse, Amazon’s Moat, Aggregator v Aggregator Ben Thompson Amazon predictably blocked Muse, but there is room for a deal based on the reality that Amazon's physical world investments are an AI moat.
• Why England’s schools are doing so well Comment is Freed And what we need to focus on next
• Tales from the Software Factory: The Cron and the VM Exe.dev "My old mindset was wanting a bot to nag me into doing the thing. The new mindset is to have the bot take the task as close to the finish line as possible."
• SF: A Birds of a Feather on Agentic Engineering Jesse Vincent Simon Willison and I have been talking about hosting a small-group event (or maybe an event series) about agentic engineering for ages. We're finally doing it, about 3 weeks from now! ​Compare notes w
• The problem(s) with utilitarianism Noah Smith Our favorite moral philosophy is about to come under increasing strain.

понеділок, 21 вересня 2026 р.

• Frontier Overhangs Ben Thompson Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for the frontier labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement.
• Where do AI norms come from? Charity Majors A dialogue with Dr Cat Hicks on ethics, learning, and what we owe each other. Part one: start by listening.
• Caring vs. Knowing Exe.dev Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.
• Second Chances Hugh Howey John Joseph Adams and I have edited at least six books together. Is it more? I can’t remember. There was the Apocalypse Triptych from 2014. And the Dystopia Triptych from 2020. Both trilogies gathered
• Superpowers 6.4 Jesse Vincent I'm pleased to announce the release of Superpowers 6.4. This release adds new support for three coding agents: Meta's Muse, OpenCode 2.0 and Qwen Code. Every new model behaves just a bit differently t
• Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art libraries by asking agents to make the code faster Max Wolf c’mon, try doing a breakthrough
• Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models Simon Willison Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name for t
• Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available Simon Willison Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a first

неділя, 20 вересня 2026 р.

• Operation Vivaldi and the Battle for Donetsk Comment is Freed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has three distinctive components.
• How we can beat China Noah Smith The trick is to let them beat themselves.
• System One models like Jev can train their own replacements Sean Goedecke
• Grit your teeth and ship it Sean Goedecke
• Defensive Career Driving Stay SaaSy To have a positive and rewarding career, you need to drive defensively
• Joy & Curiosity #100 Thornsten Ball Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

пʼятниця, 18 вересня 2026 р.

• 2026.38: Doomforce Ben Thompson The best Stratechery content from the week of September 14, 2026, including the view from anywhere but San Francisco, the limited potential for a pacing deal, and the Salesforce zag.
• The Overhang Ethan Mollick Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
• Programming Is a Game Exe.dev Why AI got good at code before it got good at anything else.
• Roundup #88: Is it time to panic yet? Noah Smith AI risk; AI and growth; AI and Saas; Rich people; Christians vs. Nazis; Japanese culture; State capacity; City size
• Two techniques for working with System One models Sean Goedecke

четвер, 17 вересня 2026 р.

• An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People Ben Thompson An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People
• How much debt is too much? Comment is Freed It’s looming global economic risks week at Comment is Freed.
• Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries Simon Willison Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the

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.
• Houthis, Hormuz and the “chokepoint” threat to the global economy Comment is Freed Today and Thursday we have two posts addressing big risks facing the global economy.
• 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.

• The Agency Gap Comment is Freed Why are young people increasingly unhappy?
• 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.
• When government works Comment is Freed The story of the vaccine rollout
• 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.
• Can Putin be persuaded he is not winning? Comment is Freed Towards a “hurting stalemate”
• 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