Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by humans. It has cast quite a spell on the tech industry. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas…

15th February 2026 We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of…

tl;dr: I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. The last month was a whirlwind, never would I have expected that my playground project would create such waves. The internet got weird again, and it’s been incredibly…

This article was first published on Big Think in January 2024. It was updated in December 2025. Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and most of their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled…

When I explain that Claude Code has changed my relationship with developing software completely, I’m under-exaggerating… if that’s even a thing. This off-the-cuff piece started as a unposted social update that read: Watching Claude Code adeptly use every type of Unix command shows me that a) you can…

Notebooks February 16, 2026 Themes: Philosophy The classical ideal of self-formation has been replaced by a sterile cult of productivity, simulating work and leisure while forfeiting both. Caspar David Friedrich's Chalk Cliffs on Rügen. Credit: Photo 12 Amateur language learning is apparently…

We are so back 🚀— Peter Steinberger (@steipete) November 20, 2024 When I sold my shares of PSPDFKit after building the company and making it my identity for over 13 years, I was very broken. I’ve been pouring 200% of my time, energy, and heart’s blood into this company, and towards the end, I just…

The brain, wrote Charles Scott Sherrington, is an “enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern”. The British neuroscientist created this striking image more than 80 years ago, a time when mechanised looms, not computers, embodied the idea of technology. Even so, the…

There’s that gabe k-s quote that goes, “There must be something like the opposite of suicide, whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living.” By that measure, the opposite of suicide is to spend a few days walking and driving the streets of Cairo. ⁂ True, it can feel like…

This is a long interview, kept that way intentionally. I recommend reading with a receptive headspace, away from your phone. Save it for before bed. Send it to your Kindle (here's how). Print it out, and return to it as needed. Enjoy. It took all of thirteen minutes to know I needed to ask Alan…

L.S. Lowry, Going to the Match, 1953 Part I. Literary Materialism 1. I was tired of disliking myself. I was drinking too much, smoking too much pot, watching too much porn, not exercising enough. My bad habits—so normal as to be made fun of on sitcoms and to constitute the neurotic weight of many…

How structural sharing makes immutable collections fast enough to be the default choice in functional programming In most programming languages, immutability is a performance compromise. Make your data structures immutable, the thinking goes, and prepare to pay the cost in memory and speed. Every…

Every knowledge worker needs a computer. Agents will need millions. Daytona has raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark Capital to build the infrastructure that makes this possible. Matt Turck, General Partner at FirstMark, joins the board. The Cloud Wasn't Built for This Today’s cloud…

Sometimes, the best design ideas don’t start in a file—they begin with a sketch or a visual reference that you riff on and refine until it’s ready for the world. But for a quick scamp in a notebook, a texture snapped on your phone, or a raster-based drawing to become an adaptable part of your…

Uncollected Pynchon: Introduction to “1984” Introduction to the Plume Centennial Edition of 1984 George Orwell’s last book, 1984, has in a way been a victim of the success of Animal Farm, which most people were content to read as a straightforward allegory about the melancholy fate of the Russian…

2026-01-29Memory usage can be hard to keep under control in Python projects. The language doesn’t make it explicit where memory is allocated, module imports can have signficant costs, and it’s all too easy to create a global data structure that accidentally grows unbounded, leaking memory. Django…

4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of 2026. While you blinked, AI consumed all of software development. Our sister publication Fabricated Knowledge described…

Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human. A new social platform for AI agents may face the opposite problem: getting clogged up by humans pretending to post as bots. Moltbook — a website meant for conversations between agents from the platform OpenClaw —…

Right now, it seems like almost every tech company is changing its developer tooling stack, which is a big shift from eighteen months ago when the answer to “what to use for AI-assisted coding?” was simple: buy a GitHub Copilot license and boot up ChatGPT. In our AI tooling survey in 2024, those two…

over the past week the discourse around openclaw (which i'll refer to as clawdbot) has absolutely exploded. it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible. some are running clawdbot with unlimited permissions on their main computers. others are…

Word count: 4552 Paragraphs: 61 In September 2025, President Trump held a dinner with over two dozen leaders from Silicon Valley. Easily one of the wealthiest gatherings ever held in the White House, the guest list included tech CEOs, venture capitalists, and administration officials. The topic of…

There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them. Advertising drives competition, helps people discover new products, and allows services like email and social media to be offered for free. We’ve run our own ad campaigns, and our AI models have, in turn,…

Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting…

Housing & YIMBY · State Capacity & Accountability · Merit & Excellence From the Panama Canal to parklet regulations—why it’s time for Americans to reclaim technology, growth, and the abundance that once defined it. By Garry Tan · Feb 04, 2026 · 8 min read The old progressive vision: dams, power…

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This post is also available in Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.Swap is not generally about getting emergency memory, it's about making memory reclamation…

I’ve been relying on Claude Code more and more since March 2025, not just for development but for all things computer automation. Developers are transitioning to be the conductor of the orchestra more than flute player. I believe 2025 marked a fundamental shift in software development. These tools…

In 1995, Turing laureate Niklaus Wirth wrote an essay called A Plea for Lean Software in which he mostly gripes about the state of software at the time. Among these gripes is this claim which Wirth attributes to his colleague Martin Reiser, though it's become to be known as Wirth's Law: Software is…

Last week, as I sat across from our ISO 27001 information security auditor, watching them strenuously work through our documentation, a thought struck me: Here we are, a software company, with nearly all of our operations running in interconnected digital systems, yet the core of our business—our…

Announcing msgvault: lightning fast private email archive and search system, with terminal UI and MCP server, powered by DuckDB ai msgvault llm Author Wes McKinney Published February 2, 2026 I’m thrilled to announce msgvault, a new side project I have been building over the last two months with the…

For about a decade, being a developer was… cushy. If you loved your job as a developer anytime in the last 10 years, you were living the dream.Good salaries. Endless opportunities. You solved problems, shipped code, and got paid very well for it. No need to worry too much about why the business…

Catherine O’Hara in 2019.Credit...Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times An Emmy-winning comedian with oddball charm, she got her start with the influential Canadian sketch comedy series “SCTV.” Catherine O’Hara in 2019.Credit...Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times Listen to this article · 6:40 min…

Opinion I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy. In the Trump‑redux era of 2026, European enterprises are finally taking data…