As I watch what's happening in Minneapolis and around the country ; to me the immediate risk of AI is that it's consolidating power and wealth in the hands of tech executives that willingly endorse what's happening as long as they get their GPUs.

To all my new England friends. It's 61 degrees and sunny in the bay.

Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I work in tech. I emailed my leadership letting them know I hope they acknowledge the events in Minneapolis and take a position. Small as it is; there was a time when I wouldn't have had to ask. I don't know how but I want to try to hold tech accountable.

This is ok tho

I think the market keeps wanting to believe things haven't changed but they have. We are very clearly in an era where the president is willing to go after anyone, any country or any company that displeases him. The volatility should scare most investors. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

That didn't take long

I don't understand the argument that acquiring Greenland is vital to our national security. I can't think of anything more dangerous and a bigger gift to Russia and China than the fracturing of NATO. How are these clowns in charge? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

If we think aggressively pursuing Greenland and threatening NATO is bonkers and undermines US security and economic interests; what do we do? How do we encourage Congress to fulfill its constitutional responsibility and restrain the president?

The post is a good explanation of memecoins and the attempt to boost their value by tying them to OSS projects

What options are there for replacing my LinkedIn page with a resume hosted on PDS/AtProto 1. Do we have an existing schema/proto for storing it as structured data 2. Is there a webapp that can be used to edit mine and view others

Has the tech industry crossed over from optimism to toxic positivity? There was a time when events like what's happening in Minneapolis would have elicited at the least internal comms acknowledging how troubling that was. Is that happening? I don't think so.

one reason we keep doing coding interviews even though they no longer make sense is because we know how to do them using coderpad. I think coderpad could help advance the field by supporting new styles of questions. E.g here's a large code base use AI to figure out X works

Finally got a round to deleting my X account. Exporting my data was surprisingly easy. I assume that is a testament to the great engineering at Twitter pre Elon.

We need a symbol like TM to indicate "I don't really know what this means either so your best bet is to ask AI." Here's an example using AA as the symbol. "We use chz blueprints[AA] to manage the definition of our eval jobs."

It's taken my new puppy less than 24 hours to turn my house into a complete bio hazard zone.

I'm optimistic that AI will commoditize compute and lead to a new wave of apps running on compute you own. Cloud compute has a lot of benefits (e.g. reliability) but managing EC2/GCE was too hard. AI is a powerful new tool compared to SAAS which trades ease of use for loss of control

I wonder how many people aren't trying Codex CLI and Claude Code because they think it's for SWEs and they don't consider themselves SWEs? Is a CLI the right UX for this audience? Does it need to be a Cloud IDE like replit?

Git is so deeply ingrained in software engineering it's hard to remember what a barrier to entry it can't be. In a world where anyone can write code with AI I don't think the answer to "where do I save it" can be create a git repo. The UX needs to be as seamless and intuitive as Google Docs.

My team is looking for a data engineer with expertise in Kafka and data bricks. Everybody I ever worked with at Google on Dataflow or Primer would be a good fit. So if your looking reach out to me.

Software engineering and coding are not the same thing Coding = getting persnickety machines to do what you want with esoteric syntax Software engineering = solving business problems with software. AI will solve coding but not software engineering; that requires customer empathy

Two central competing AI narratives are 1. AI let's you do the same work with less people -> job loss 2. AI let's you solve problems you couldn't before -> create entrepeneurs I think enterprises are structurally geared to the former; i.e layoffs and stock buyback

I've accepted that 1. I'm building Google Colab 2. Codex is enabling this by letting me cosplay a web app developer 3. I'm more than likely tilting at windmils

Does the atproto have good support for non-public data? Could a PDS be used as an alternative to Google Drive? @pfrazee.com

Trump going after Maduro while pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández only makes sense to me if I think of Trump as a chaos agent. I think he treats each moment as an opportunity to win or lose and does whatever feels like winning without any long term planning or strategy.

Skills are very interesting but I think the key to unlocking AI remains creating a UX where training data is a side effect of getting stuff down. In skills the heavy lifting is done by a skill.md file which is handcrafted, training data. leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2025/1...

I'm not on the multi-agent bandwagon yet. I've been using codex-cli to build my own notebook for devops. Codex has been a game changer for learning and building a webapp. But it required a huge amount of steering.

Is it possible to create a first class sharing/ Google Colab like experience in Jupyter/JupyterLab or does the architecture prevent it? Are the frontend, backend and storage so tightly coupled that its difficult to separate them and host the frontend separately.

Software development is unique in that development environments are hermetic and cloneable. We have decades of CI/CD investment towards that goal. This makes development tasks well suited for evals and RL which I think helps explain the rapid progress.

Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/... This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:

I'm so sick of subscription pricing. AI might make a difference here because to me it looks like consumption based pricing is the only sensible approach. Intelligence = compute = energy. I don't see how a business selling compute and energy can provide unlimited compute and energy for fixed price.

Anyone have recommendations for books or online courses to learn frontend engineering and webapp design

Is it accurate to say Jupyter and JupyterLab have a single machine architecture? I think the notebook file is stored on the server. Are the lifetime of the frontend webapp and server closely coupled?

Dog parks are like dog poop lending libraries. Take a poop , leave a poop.

codex-cli has made learning front end much more enjoyable. Codex handles much of the coding letting me focus more on the software design and learning the corresponding concepts and patterns

Is it naive to think maybe the court finds this so outrageous it needed a full hearing to fully express it's outrage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

For me looking at my data isn't enough; I need to write about my data to force myself to look at my data to understand what story it's telling

I would love to meet the person who when standing in passport control after a long intercontinental flight thinks to themself "My number 1 concern is what sex is listed in the passport of all these folks" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Nothing says I follow the teaching of Christ like stopping others from feeding the hungry www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

I think the Airlines should take a stance on the shutdown and include a message in every delay/cancellation message. Or at the very least both sides it and include a message from each party blaming the other.

So much for efficiency. "... take screenshots of the text messages on their work phones, send it to their work email, download it on their work computers and then run a program ... to store it in searchable formats" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

How is "We want to raise the cost of healthcare and we're willing to grind air travel to a halt and risk ruining Thanksgiving" a winning position? It's just the latest example of legislative terrorism.

I support all the TSA and Traffic Controllers and other government workers who aren't showing up because they aren't getting paid. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

I think lack of a standard around VPC ServIce controls is holding agents back. If you want to give agents access to services (GitHub, Datadog, etc...) there two types of risk docs.cloud.google.com/vpc-service-...

Love that @hamel.bsky.social is putting on a hackathon where the goal is for your agent to score the highest on evaluations, not just do something flashy. click.convertkit-mail2.com/gkumlz753lc5...

I didn't realize how large the increase in healthcare premiums was until I saw the numbers. How do you afford $920/month if your making 65K per year? That's 11K/year for people who probably have very little disposable income as is. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Forcing government employees to work without pay is the antithesis of free market capitalism. It's another example how the government constantly puts its finger on the scale. Republicans only have a problem when it benefits the majority of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

AI is great for writing code. Browsers are great for executing code. CORS and other security measures are major blocker to many valuable apps. If we want to make browsers great for AI we need to make it easier for users to say I trust this app and relax CORS.