вівторок, 12 травня 2026 р.
понеділок, 11 травня 2026 р.
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The Inference Shift
Ben Thompson
Agentic inference is going to be different than the inference we use today, and it will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved.
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Tyrants are losing wars
Noah Smith
Ruthlessness and machismo will only get you so far in a technological world.
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Thoughts on GitLab's workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions"
Simon Willison
GitLab Act 2 There's a lot going on in this announcement from GitLab about the "workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions" they are making with respect to the agentic era. They're "
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
Simon Willison
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it's even starting to distort
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Using LLM in the shebang line of a script
Simon Willison
TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News: But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you're sufficiently brave) [...] This inspired me to loo
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Learning on the Shop floor
Simon Willison
Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely
неділя, 10 травня 2026 р.
субота, 9 травня 2026 р.
пʼятниця, 8 травня 2026 р.
четвер, 7 травня 2026 р.
середа, 6 травня 2026 р.
вівторок, 5 травня 2026 р.
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Amazon’s Durability
Ben Thompson
Amazon looked behind in AI in the training era, but is well place in the inference era, thanks to its continued investment in the long-term.
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Why Your Best Ideas Aren’t Original
Derek Thompson
What the mysterious history of "multiple discovery" in science tells us about the nature of creativity
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AI's big messaging pivot
Noah Smith
Some top AI leaders now say their technology will create jobs. Should we believe them?
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Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm
Simon Willison
Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Andon Labs previously started an AI-run retail store in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe. The
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Investor Update – April 2026
Val. Town
April had 8% revenue growth. New focus: Claude Code + Val Town MCP
понеділок, 4 травня 2026 р.
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Content for Content’s Sake
Armin Ronacher
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”,
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Google Earnings, Meta Earnings
Ben Thompson
Wall Street loved Google's earnings, and hated Meta's, even though the latter's core business was more impressive. The difference is that Google is monetizing its investments now (and it might be all
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Dev, Test, Prod: Choose One, Two, or Three
Exe.dev
You can build, test, and deploy on exe.dev.
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Superpowers 5.1.0
Jesse Vincent
I'm pleased to announce Superpowers 5.1.0. The biggest changes in this release are: -A reworking of how we use git worktrees, now that Claude Code and Codex have first-class support for them. Removing
неділя, 3 травня 2026 р.
субота, 2 травня 2026 р.
пʼятниця, 1 травня 2026 р.
четвер, 30 квітня 2026 р.
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Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes
Ben Thompson
Amazon's earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights.
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How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
Derek Thompson
Compared to their parents, Millennial fathers have roughly tripled the amount of time they spend with kids. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.
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That time it tried to delete all my tests
Jesse Vincent
Last fall I had a bit of a problem with Claude. It was deleting tests. First, I caught it removing a single assertion from a test file. The next day, it deleted an entire test file from an active proj
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The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
Simon Willison
Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. Eng
середа, 29 квітня 2026 р.
вівторок, 28 квітня 2026 р.
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Before GitHub
Armin Ronacher
GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was. Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrast
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
Ben Thompson
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft's new deal.
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Finding Vulnerabilities with Warden
David Cramer
We found 100+ vulnerabilities with Warden across Sentry and a few big OSS repos—here’s how we scope skills, iterate locally, and run it on PRs.
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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Simon Willison
Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a "13B langua
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Your ears are burning—listen in with Octolens and Val Town
Val. Town
We tried hand rolling social listening before moving to Octolens
понеділок, 27 квітня 2026 р.
неділя, 26 квітня 2026 р.
пʼятниця, 24 квітня 2026 р.
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You should try contra dancing
Ben Kuhn
a story of middle school Ben • a not-very-illuminating description of the mechanics • flow, joy, and community • the antidote to the rest of life • how to try contra
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2026.17: He Came, He Saw, He Cooked
Ben Thompson
The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including the end of the Tim Cook era, Cursor and SpaceX, and the various fronts of Cold War 2.0.
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A Mutating AI Powered Virus
George Hotz
Moravec’s paradox is alive and well. Computers are proceeding through tasks in a reverse order to humans. They first learned to do calculations and win at board games, then they learned to write and t
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Greenfield and Iterative Development
Jesse Vincent
Crossposted from Prime Radiant's blog – I'm really excited about all of the stuff we are doing at Prime Radiant. For the most part we're blogging about it over there, but I'm going to continue to lift
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Why shoplifting is bad
Noah Smith
It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don't deserve it.
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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Sean Goedecke
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The people do not yearn for automation
Simon Willison
The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a
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DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
Simon Willison
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V
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russellromney/honker
Simon Willison
russellromney/honker "Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics" for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of it. The design of this looks very solid. It
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Simon Willison
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.
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Tim Cook's Apple
Trung Phan
A breakdown of Tim Cook's 15-year CEO run, taking Apple from $350 billion to $4 trillion: The Good, The Bad and the Apple Intelligence
четвер, 23 квітня 2026 р.
середа, 22 квітня 2026 р.
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John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor
Ben Thompson
The elevation of John Ternus suggests that Apple's future is about hardware differentiation; then, the SpaceX-Cursor deal makes a lot of sense.
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I am building a cloud
David Crawshaw
I am building a cloud 2026-04-22 Today is fundraising announcement day. As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily
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Series A for exe.dev
Exe.dev
exe.dev has raised a Series A to build a development-focused cloud
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Do you really want the US to “win” AI?
George Hotz
By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist. I should love what’s happening. The AI I dreamed of my whole life is being built, engineer-type strongmen are sort of in charge, and people are saying out
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Silo Season Three!
Hugh Howey
Apple just announced the premiere date for Silo season three! The first of ten episodes drops on July 3rd. This is, by far, the best season yet. You all aren’t ready. The post Silo Season Three! appea
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Is China's soft power really rising, or is America's just crumbling?
Noah Smith
Chinamaxxing vs. Americaminning.
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Luddites and AI datacenters
Sean Goedecke
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Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
Simon Willison
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans On the same day as Claude Code's temporary will-they-won't-they $100/month kerfuffle (for the moment, they won't), here's the latest on GitHub Copilot pricin
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Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing
Simon Willison
Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to ad
вівторок, 21 квітня 2026 р.
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Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
Ben Thompson
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.
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AI has no moat
George Hotz
SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60B. lol it’s just sad to watch this shit, Twitter was $44B. Like this has to be some scam I don’t understand. Nobody I know even uses Cursor any more.
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No, America is not in a "stealth manufacturing boom"
Noah Smith
Tariffs are canceling out the tailwinds.
понеділок, 20 квітня 2026 р.
неділя, 19 квітня 2026 р.
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What is freedom?
George Hotz
I had a conversation today with ChatGPT about freedom in the US vs Hong Kong. It said all these things about how Hong Kong was unfree, citing all these US expert organizations. But when we really got
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Headless everything for personal AI
Simon Willison
Headless everything for personal AI Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services direct
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Joy & Curiosity #82
Thornsten Ball
Interesting & joyful things from the previous week
субота, 18 квітня 2026 р.
пʼятниця, 17 квітня 2026 р.
четвер, 16 квітня 2026 р.
середа, 15 квітня 2026 р.
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понеділок, 13 квітня 2026 р.
неділя, 12 квітня 2026 р.
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The ‘Everyone’s a Billionaire’ act
George Hotz
I heard that while this blog is good at diagnosing the problem, it falls short when proposing solutions. Today I’m proposing a solution that everyone (except the haters and losers) can get behind.
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Joy & Curiosity #81
Thornsten Ball
Interesting & joyful things from the previous week