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An unexpected valuable thing in b2b: people actually saying no when they aren't interested. Have started doing that as much as I can

Intentional or not, Principle Engineer (instead of Principal Engineer) is a brilliant job title

Even the models don’t like today’s state of flux

I have yet to be sent a link to a blue sky post, but still regularly get sent links from almost all other social networks. Enjoy

"""I had Claude Code implement a very simplified version of Git in 13 languages. Ruby, Python, and JavaScript were the fastest, cheapest, and most stable. Statically typed languages were 1.4–2.6× slower and more expensive.""" dev.to/mame/which-p...

Starting to think that the quiet foundation of tools that "increase productivity" is that they are addictive. Just like the way social networks grew with feeds. These tools are creating productivity by hitting us with some dopamine

Agents using code repos and ticketing systems is cool. Who is working on agent calendars so that I can schedule & see work that’s booked in?

We're currently comparing Claude & Codex. The most fascinating feedback I've heard about one of them is "for some reason I just hate talking to it" and I think that captures so much about what is difficult about building AI products these days

Someone I was chatting to at a conference said "AI should be the sat nav, not the car" to talk about AI adoption and so I asked him what he thinks about Waymo

Rapidly rebranding all my search benchmarks as eval awareness benchmarks

What I learned from being a CTO: there is always someone waiting for me to do something that I haven't done yet

Just over 50% of Gradient Labs is builders now, we wrote up a bit about our ways of working as we navigate this super competitive & ever-changing space blog.gradient-labs.ai/p/creating-a...

To date, HCI researchers have had no support on signaling their paper's relevance to AI, esp. when that connection is tenuous at best. We introduce a systematic framework to ensure LLMs are mentioned at every stage of paper reporting—from framing, to evaluation, to implications.

Vibe vs buy: you've never been paying for the code; you're paying for "someone else has thought this problem through in much more depth that I'm willing or able to"

it's been weeks and I haven't seen a single mention of the SaaS-pocalyse here

The idea that coding agents prove "learn to code was a mistake" is kind of analogous to thinking the printing press meant "psych! y'all wasted a lot of time learning how to write." Computational thinking is getting easier to pick up, and also providing more leverage than before.

Fascinated that my old modelstore library is still getting love (PRs, downloads), am throwing our friend Claude at some improvements github.com/operatorai/m...

We started working with Wise many months ago, am super glad that’s now public 🚀

We've launched our outbound agent today. It's been great seeing this come to life; an AI initiated conversation is so different from the reverse gradient-labs.ai/product/outb...

Cold reach out with: "I'd like to grab a coffee and understand where your business is headed" What do I even say to this

I mean if you care more about speed than fidelity, there are model choices you could make to speed things up... theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

Making AI agents _fast_ is more of an architecture problem than a model problem

"Who exactly is the intern?" benn.substack.com/p/the-gentle...

That moment when you’re so tired that even your phone doesn’t recognise you

This is actually quite good (now that I've had the pleasure of being on both sides of the table) www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/enginee...

"Motivation is a hired trait" www.ablg.io/blog/no-mana...

At least Gemini gave itself up www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

The blog post drafts that are a couple weeks old used to still feel fresh when published, but that’s not the case anymore. Anyway- nlathia.github.io/2026/02/Seco...

The word of the year for 2026 should be “agents” (by itself). You can put any prefix you want in front of it and get to a hugely important topic

A hackathon for vibecoders

We’ve crossed the “older companies write comparison pages about you” milestone fin.ai/learn/fin-vs...

For all the “which vector DB should I use” posts that are everywhere openai.com/index/scalin...

starting to come to terms with how insane it is working with claude code

Inbox management: if there’s a newsletter email dated 2025 still there, it’s just getting deleted 🗑️

If it came down to the apocalypse vs me successfully navigating Jira, I know the end of the world would be near

Should culture fit be a factor in hiring, or is tech skill sufficient? To me, software development is first and foremost a social activity performed by humans, with all the baggage that comes with being human. Technical competence is nice, but it is not the core of who we are. 1/10

Finished all the “review of 2025” (when did X happen) and “predictions for 2026” (when will Y happen) posts; but the main chat I’ve been having is about “how should I know to change my assumptions” Mini blurb about it nlathia.github.io/2026/01/Upda...

There's no path to put the toothpaste back in the tube on LLMs. Even with a Dot Com-style bust that wrecks every major company the tech itself will persist much like the internet. So with a Butlerian Jihad out of the question, we instead have to grapple with how to use this technology rigorously.

them> how do you get such good results from agents? me> i have a capricious toddler

Nvidia is buying Groq (not Grok) the fast AI inference provider www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/n...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

I don't even know where to start with this it's so stupid

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Podcast in a b2b venue, was an odd experience youtu.be/2D9uiB6cIAs?...

Confirmed for the first-ever Pragmatic Summit: @chiphuyen.bsky.social! Writer, computer scientist, and author of the best-selling book AI Engineering (highly recommended book.) We have an amazing lineup, check out other confirmed speakers: pragmaticsummit.com 11 Feb, San Francisco.

It has been three years since ChatGPT launched. GenAI is the fastest adoption of an economically consequential technology in human history. And the speed & breadth of that adoption (as well as its continued exponential improvement) is why we have no handle on what it all means.

It crossed one of my other feeds, and I just rewatched it after a long time: this is a wonderful talk (2017 🧓🏽) youtu.be/x7psGHgatGM?...

Wonderful conversation (even for someone who is usually averse to “futurist” things) youtu.be/yKnIrbidPjQ?...