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?...

we've been brain-rotted www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjPi...

Prepping a new class for next term called “Data Workflow Automation” about building reproducible, adaptable data science / ML pipelines, versioning artifacts, etc., also with a bit of MLOps. V. excited! Want to ask my broader network — what oft-overlooked things should students learn here?

In discussions of AI and jobs, we put too much emphasis on the technology and not enough on the corporate leaders who are actually making decisions about what they want to do with AI & its implications. It is a time where CEO vision matters a lot, and you can see a contrast in Amazon and Walmart

The UK *really* needs to set up a sovereign tech fund to support the vibrant open source scene here. Kudos to @openuk.bsky.social for pushing this in their recommendations to @ukri.org openuk.uk/theuksfuture...

This is a sad but correct decision. Thank you, @python.org, for committing to your values when it matters. I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.

Does AI get bored? I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...

We’re on a list! (& a good one) www.redpoint.com/ai64/

"It has, with generative code, become harder and harder to strive towards the lions because the models produce code that is, quite literally, mid" - beautiful post by @vickiboykis.com newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/i-wa...

What’s old is new youtu.be/TlR7douxQRM?...

And let this be a reminder that the best teams in the planet can get caught offguard by issues. In 2021, ALL of Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) went fully down for 6 hours. Not partial degradation, like today on Amazon... fullly down en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Fa...

Every few months on BlueSky there is a hot story of how AI is going to go away soon: model collapse, walls to AI development, legal issues, now financial bubbles. But even if there was a bubble that popped, AI would not go away: 10% of humans use it weekly, increasing use cases in companies, etc.

LinkedIn is wild

Interesting deep dive for anyone curious about how #ClaudeCode is built. #Anthropic #Claude #GenAI #DevOps #VibeCoding

Claude Sonnet 4.5 dropped www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... assets.anthropic.com/m/12f214efcc...

Tbh I assume that everyone using LLMs in prod is building a failover system. The team wrote about ours blog.gradient-labs.ai/p/building-r...

PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now

We wrote a post about a couple inter related incidents we had a few months ago blog.gradient-labs.ai/p/anatomy-of...

Any European startups need this data? It’s about to go up in smoke.

A new definition for AGI just dropped, and it is a bad one.

Monzo alumni's Gradient Labs raises $13M to reinvent agentic AI for regulated industries tech.eu/2025/07/08/e...

Gradient Labs secures $13M Series A to revolutionize AI-powered customer service in regulated industries, delivering 90% query resolution with 98% quality assurance #AI #CustomerService

💰 Series A! gradient-labs.ai/blog/series-...

AI is not going to make people atrophy into bad writers. People are already bad writers

After decades, I still hear the London tube thing as “see it, say it, sort it”

The best thing about today’s outage was every b2b company announcing to each other that they’re impacted

love an outage day

We need a 3D Designer/Animator at Sling for a few weeks, if you know anyone send them this listing: app.screenloop.com/careers/avia...

An announcement: After 18 years, TechCrunch and I have parted ways. www.linkedin.com/posts/mikebu...

The state of marketing for b2b AI agents in 2025

Am currently looking to hire Backend & Product Engineers. Not sure if shouting into the void here will help, but if you - reader - are or know someone great, please let me know!

This is a great read 👇

To all the people who said a few years ago that agents like this were coming, props for the forecast. These agentic LMs are such a crazy platform to build a ton of new apps and tools on! So much capabilities untapped in recent models.

🎧 I got invited to the “Between Data & Risk” podcast Internal team discussion: should I have (not) shaved for this? youtu.be/xMJ06jC51VY

Hopefully things change here, as my big worry about AI talk on this site is that people are being misled about the capabilities of AI by influencers who are telling them what they want to hear. AI is not going away, it will impact all of our futures, and it needs more voices shaping its direction.

Most important plot from IO today -- AI usage is skyrocketing. This is real.