This makes me feel very old

Interesting perspectives on AI coding tools if you can get past the blather from one idiot (initials RD) in this piece from @benjedwards.com: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/d...

Man I don't know what I'll do if the Warriors get Giannis next week www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/gia...

This process seems about as rigorous as the discussions I have about fixing a sandwich for lunch when I'm home alone. Many thorny issues to carefully work through with all the stakeholders. www.reuters.com/world/musks-...

👇🏼 pretty wild considering all the barriers they have in place to prevent randos from posting fake Craigslist ads!!

“The event occurred when the pedestrian suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly into our vehicle's path. ... The Waymo Driver braked hard, reducing speed from approximately 17 mph to under 6 mph before contact was made.” waymo.com/blog/2026/01...

Waymo still generally priced somewhat above Uber/Lyft, but prices converging in the Bay Area: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Love it when Trump galaxy brains himself into left positions from first principles. First single-payer health care, now gun control

Odd pair of Kevin Roose posts: - I work in probably the most AI-pilled env possible and having agents write all your code - sure. Claude is making every decision - weird - There's zero penalty for late adoption so far - open an agent today, type “walk me through...” and you're near the frontier

I'm not sure it's the best model, but Gemini 3 definitely has my favorite sense of humor

Sci-Fi Authors through the ages: The weapon you build will probably come and kill you Minnesota voter: At long last, I have decided to try my hand at building a weapon

Spiritual bypassing, except it's vibe coding web apps as a way to avoid doing the work?

What I was just saying, in a slightly different context. I think there are two parts: (i) state-of-the-art agents are decent simulacra of youngsters who can take ideas and run with them, & (ii) the skills of guiding youngsters carry over directly

Keep seeing this quoted, developing a hot take about why I (a guy who's been a “staff software engineer”-type for a while) have a different reaction to coding agents. And also why I'm uniquely well-positioned to benefit from the AI boom. Namely…

damn that sucks

I tried ChatGPT once in 2024 and the hallucinations were SO BAD. I can tell you with certainty that LLMs will *never* be able to do <thing that 1000s of people used Claude Code to do yesterday>

He just truly loves crime www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

just ask Jensen, he'll reassure you that of course they're not www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a really good frame that puts into better words some inchoate thoughts I've been having about LLMs. I've been feeling continental philosophy/ postmodernism are more relevant than ever now that AI systems give narrative even more power to shape reality.

Concrete impact of AI coding: I read the very cool story www.openspace.org/stories/one-.... Even a few months ago I'd just have said, “Cool.” Now on a whim I made a prototype in half a morning and I know I can make a full Strava app this weekend to auto-annotate my activities with Midpen preserves.

Is there a better encapsulation of software development as a vocation than writing “It’s been several years since I wrote a line of code and inshallah I never will again” and then going on to say you have a strong feeling a lot of guys are doing it wrong these days

The father-son duo with the most NBA points is really funny. A hint: they became number 1 when Bronny James checked into his first regular season NBA game on October 22, 2024

It's impressive in a way that Trump loves crime so much that he's even doing the ones whose names have been forgotten for a century. first “emoluments” now “perfidy”. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

It makes me feel like I'm losing my grip on reality that Trump takes unprecedented action tearing at the foundations of our whole economic system, and then everyone just shrugs and goes about their day

My biggest takeaway from the protests: be thoughtful about your SaaS spend

Policing experts, and also anyone who has survived crossing a road www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“urging state regulators to exercise greater oversight of autonomous vehicles, given recent events in which the cars killed pets and blocked traffic” I totally agree, let's have much greater oversight over everyone operating cars dangerously apnews.com/article/waym...

This was amusing to debug - a test that passed until daylight saving ended where I live: github.com/mindeng/nom-...

A screenshot from five years ago today

What chatbot psychosis taught me about closing b2b deals

My kid saw an Instagram post asking for the solution to 2^x + 8x = 5 Parents, if you don't teach your children about the Lambert W function, someone else will

Trump must spare the American people from the prolonged trauma of a trial, and pardon Maduro immediately www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Could we challenge the Thunder to a lacrosse game instead?

One depressing reason why Waymo is taking market share even though it charges a premium price over Uber www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/b...

In all the justified outage over how Grok image editing is being abused, calls for xAI and Musk to be held accountable, and reminders not to anthropomorphize Grok - I haven't seen anyone suggesting that the X users prompting the bot to generate the terrible content should face any consequences?

Rise and grind

I'm in.

Merry Christmas from pdfplumber! www.linkedin.com/posts/zhang-...

What the Epstein files can teach you about building with AI agents www.linkedin.com/posts/jerry-...

Blog post from Waymo about the chaos with their fleet during the San Francisco power outage: waymo.com/blog/2025/12... When you operate at scale, shit is going to happen and all you can do is be better next time.

I know Trump perpetually lives in 1980s New York but Brendan Byrne Arena is an oddly specific 80s callback www.nytimes.com/1981/10/13/n...

As @matt-levine.bsky.social put it today: “I know I say this a lot but it keeps being more true: Sure, whatever!” www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Imagine being an engineer working on Truth Social today www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

Lol

Idk seems like transformational fair use to me www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I am manifesting this so hard, still two weeks left in the year 🙏🏼

Missed this on Friday... sounds like no future for any Ventana products: ‘“We are thrilled to join the Qualcomm team and contribute our RISC-V expertise in the development of Qualcomm’s leading Oryon CPU technology,” said Balaji Baktha, CEO of Ventana’ www.qualcomm.com/news/release...

Curious your take on this resistance to SB79 in Mountain View from livablemv.com et al, @cafedujord.bsky.social www.mv-voice.com/land-use/202...

Did I? www.reuters.com/business/ora...

Ironic timing to publish one day before $CSCO gets an 80 handle for the very first time since the peak of the dot-com bubble in March 2000, 25 years ago www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...