A recent article, “Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall,” makes an argument I think is more useful than the usual debate over whether AI is a bubble. The question is not whether AI demand is real. It is whether the...
Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can...
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 to testing and...
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species is possible...
This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. You can read the original here.
Table of Contents AI Is Changing Work Faster Than Employment The Entry-Level Squeeze Watch Hiring, Not Just Layoffs Automation and Augmentation Are Different Productivity Does Not Automatically Mean Fewer Jobs The...
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 far. ChatGPT Work is...
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. This is a big size...
Many thanks especially to Oak Hu, who paired with me for most of the writing, and also to Adam Kaufman and Alex Mallen, who paired with me during research.Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive...
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 alarming post he...
It’s a scene from our new post, The Man Who Knew Too Much. It starts out as holiday, and ends up as nightmare. Codenames is a board game played between two teams of players. At the start of the game, 25 cards are...
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 made that the default...
@notjack.space: UIs with too many buttons confuse and alarm me @sixfold-origami.com: ah, this is the unix thing! @notjack.space: no, because I want cross device sync to actually work Do we need simplicity? Recently, I...
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋As companies continue trying to figure out where AI can actually create impact, teams are experimenting with everything from coding assistants and agents to...
In recent conversations with crews building agents, I keep hearing the same lessons. Teams with very different products are arriving independently at almost the same architectural choices. That convergence feels...
The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind...
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at scale for over twenty years now. They've been running on Stackless Python since their launch in 2003,...
Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel.We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near; and how Anthropic and OpenAI are on track...
Subscribe • Previous Issues Nine Practical Rules for Agents Doing Real Work In recent conversations with crews building agents, I keep hearing the same lessons. Teams with very different products are arriving...