I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn. Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements. Something that used to take 4-8 hours…

Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a startup to learn acronyms about equity and stock options. But some of those acronyms might have serious impacts on your life (or, at least,…

written on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 At the moment I'm working on a new project. Even over the last two months, the way I do this has changed profoundly. Where I used to spend most of my time in Cursor, I now mostly use Claude Code, almost entirely hands-off. Do I program any faster? Not really. But…

Parenthood has made me an easy (or at least easier) mark for stories about how social media and other novel attention-farming technologies are frying our childrens’ brains. And so I read James D. Walsh’s recent piece about higher education’s epidemic of AI-powered cheating with a sense of alarm that…

My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst…

LLM agents make bad pairs because they code faster than humans think. I'll admit, I've had a lot of fun using GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code this month. It's invigorating to watch it effortlessly write a working method on the first try. It's a relief when the agent unblocks me by reaching…

Today, the Guardian launches a unique new tool for protecting journalistic sources. Secure Messaging is an important new technological innovation that will make it easier for people to share confidential information with us. Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing has always taken bravery. As threats to…

In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed. I’ll first…

intel outside Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2 Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won't stay around indefinitely. Andrew Cunningham – Jun 9, 2025 6:37 pm | 14 Credit: Aurich Lawson Credit: Aurich Lawson Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Once upon a time, free access to AI chatbots was the standard. However, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Plus plan, and it was met with high demand; other companies followed suit. Anthropic's counterpart, Claude Pro, just got an upgrade, making it even more robust an offer.…

The Thunderbolt and broader USB-C hub space is crowded with options from budget to premium, offering a dizzying array of ports. ProGrade, makers of excellent high-performance storage, are diving into this space with their first hub: a Thunderbolt 4–based hub designed around their card reader…

the original Mac artist Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74 Creator of MacPaint, HyperCard, and pull-down menus shaped modern computing. Benj Edwards – Jun 9, 2025 8:30 AM | 69 Bill Atkinson in 1987. Credit: Michel BARET via Getty Images Bill Atkinson in 1987. Credit:…

Key takeaways Amazon plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure, creating 1,250 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the AWS data center supply chain.Since 2010, Amazon has invested $26 billion in Pennsylvania, contributing more than $26…

By Published May 31, 2025 Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard When shopping for new storage drives, you can choose between a hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid-state drive (SSD). Both have advantages and drawbacks for storing data inside PCs, servers, network-attached storage (NAS), and other…

Key specs Type: Prime lens Focal length: 35mm Maximum aperture: f/1.4 Lens mount: Canon RF Weight: 19.58 oz / 555 g Dimensions: 3.01x3.90 in / 76.5x99.3 mm Filter thread: 67mm Release date: June 2024 Popular prime lenses for astrophotography often come in at 24mm or wider to allow for capturing a…

Canon’s EOS R5 Mark III is expected between late 2027 to mid-2028, but that’s exactly why now is the time to speak up. Once specs are finalized, it’s too late to shape what the next generation of this popular hybrid camera will become. As a working photographer and videographer, here’s what I think…

Put on your epistemological thinking cap—something foundational is ending. Not with a dramatic fracture, but with a quiet erosion that few noticed and fewer still dared to name. Knowledge is dead. It's not knowledge in the sense of data or facts—those have never been more abundant. But the deeper…

Thibault JAMET 12 min read·4 hours ago In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of automating a complex infrastructure migration from a patchwork of Sceptre and CDK to Terraform, in a few months, following simple principles: Decide the architectural principles, and write them down…

The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway. Most things take forever to bear fruit. Even the most successful creators have spent years (if not decades) putting content out in obscurity. Just a complete total void. Youtube videos with 4 views. Newsletters with 3…

It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and experiments in self-governance gone bizarrely wrong. Stack Overflow once was the internet’s senior…

Hey there, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil (you might remember us from our HN post as Regatta Storage last Fall). Archil is building the next foundational primitive for cloud storage. Archil replaces services like EBS or Hyperdisk with volume storage that’s infinite, shareable between instances,…

Profiles The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. June 2, 2025 Yarvin wants to destroy democracy. Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and J. D. Vance are among his fans.Photograph by Carolyn Drake for The New Yorker…

With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability. By | May 28, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 1997 My well-thumbed copies of three classic web design books:…

Jordan Peterson’s already infamous appearance on Jubilee. Credit: YouTube Last week I published a quickly written “emergency” article responding to Jordan Peterson’s woeful appearance on Jubilee’s debate channel. Within 15 hours it was my most liked, viewed and commented article, knocking from the…

The Canon EOS R6 Mark III has been talked about for quite some time now, we do feel there have been some delays on the project, just from what was recently told to us in-person at a Canon headquarters. Thanks Canon! All New Sensor There are new suggestions that the 24mp resolution image sensor,…

Published 6 days ago Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Custom image by Diana Acuña Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki are responsible for their fair share of the most popular and successful animated films ever created. For nearly 40 years, fans of all ages have been shaped by the studio's grand…

Some products feel like a throwback to a different era – like flipping open a clamshell phone or spinning the wheel on an iPod. The Lenovo C55 carries that same energy, but instead of nostalgia for the sake of it, it feels like a camera that quietly rebels against smartphone monoculture. At under…

Canon continues to develop optical designs which utilize internal zoom setups. Internal zoom is the favoured design for a lot of shooters, as there is always continuity with the lens when shooting with it. Telescopic zoom lenses can save you a lot of space in the bag, but there are compromises when…

A philosophy professor writes in sharing some news about the “character” and “well-being” of Anthropic’s LLM, Claude, noting how philosophers have been involved with recent developments. [“Owl no. 1” by Ben Shahn] The following is from an email from Gus Skorburg, associate professor of philosophy at…

Word of the day This word has appeared in 12 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? Credit...Cindy Lozito By June 2, 2025 solipsism \ ˈsɑlɪpˌsɪzəm \ noun 1. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist 2. the philosophical theory…

A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s members-only Weekend Brief newsletter. Quartz members get access to exclusive newsletters and more. Sign up here. The American housing market, a post-pandemic juggernaut that seemed unstoppable, is finally showing signs of fatigue. After more…

I’ve been thinking about Think Linear Algebra for more than a decade, and recently I started working on it in earnest. If you want to get a sense of it, I’ve posted a draft chapter as a Jupyter notebook. In one way, I am glad I waited — I think it will be better, faster [to write], and stronger [?]…

The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Today, we cover: Stack overflow almost dead. Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A…

“How to Build a Life” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Imagine reading a story titled “The Relentless Pursuit of Booze.” You would likely expect a depressing story about a person in a downward alcoholic spiral. Now imagine instead reading a story…

There are countless ways to approach life, but two of the most prominent ones I’ve noticed are the American mindset and the European mindset. Because I mostly consume content in English, I often see the American perspective dominating online spaces. Interestingly, people who embrace this mindset…

In the Indian startup circles, Atmanirbhar (self-reliance) is the word of the year. Technology startups of all shapes and sizes, “unicorns” and non-unicorns have incorporated the tri colour and the Made in India label into their brand messaging and advertising campaigns—marketing prowess and…

“It’s 2022. Why hasn’t someone done it already!?”, I find exclaiming frequently when stumbling upon things and ideas that are relatively simple and so obvious that they should exist, but for some reason, don’t. It is frequently about software, occasionally about physical things, and once in a while,…