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Significant raise of reports

2026-04-06T20:55:54Z

Willy Tarreau: “Overall I think we’re going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. … But before this happens, we have to experience a huge mess that might last for a few years …”

Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic

2026-03-26T13:57:53Z

Andrew Stellman, O'Reilly Radar: “(It’s possible to reproduce the full compounding-reliability problem in a chat, but a prompt that did it reliably would be far too long to put in an article.)”

In Search of Banksy

2026-03-19T22:30:49Z

Simon Gardner, James Pearson and Blake Morrison, Reuters: “‘Does an idea belong to those who use it or those who find it?’”

“This Is Not The Computer For You”

2026-03-13T21:27:54Z

Sam Henri Gold: “Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. […] memory is finite, silicon has a clock speed, processes cost something. You are learning physics. […] The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Those are completely different lessons.”

So You Want to Do Agentic Development

2026-03-09T13:12:14Z

Rui Carmo: “Effective steering isn’t about reprompting and hoping for the best; it’s about funnelling the agent’s attention to the right context …”

The Accidental Orchestrator

2026-03-09T12:35:51Z

Andrew Stellman: “The industry conversation was dominated by agents, tool use, MCP, and real-time reasoning. Batch APIs shipped with relatively little fanfare, but they represent a genuine shift in how we can use LLMs.”

This Is Imaginal Disk

2026-02-23T16:24:11Z

Maia Mindel: “If the AI bet pays off, the labor market implodes. If the AI bet doesn’t, the capital market does.”

No Such Thing as Speed of Light

2026-02-18T18:45:21Z

Russ Bishop: “I don’t know if Speed of Causality is the right phrasing but we need a better one. Quantum physics is brain-breaking enough, no need to go confusing the matter by inferring that the speed at which light travels is the cause of other phenomena.”

A eulogy for a newspaper

2026-02-13T13:55:58Z

Michelle Jaconi: “The singular family-owned institution in America’s capital with the mission to care about people and serve its community had stopped doing both.”

US officially exits World Health Organization

2026-01-23T09:39:23Z

Mary Kekatos, ABC News: “To fill the gaps that will be left by exiting the WHO, the official said there are ‘plans’ in place to work with organizations on surveillance, diagnostics and outbreak response.”