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Thursday, 26 March 2026
Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic
Andrew Stellman, O'Reilly Radar: “(It’s possible to reproduce the full compounding-reliability problem in a chat, but a prompt that did it reliably would be far too long to put in an article.)”
Thursday, 19 March 2026
In Search of Banksy
Simon Gardner, James Pearson and Blake Morrison, Reuters: “‘Does an idea belong to those who use it or those who find it?’”
Friday, 13 March 2026
“This Is Not The Computer For You”
Sam Henri Gold: “Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. […] memory is finite, silicon has a clock speed, processes cost something. You are learning physics. […] The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Those are completely different lessons.”
Monday, 9 March 2026
So You Want to Do Agentic Development
Rui Carmo: “Effective steering isn’t about reprompting and hoping for the best; it’s about funnelling the agent’s attention to the right context …”
The Accidental Orchestrator
Andrew Stellman: “The industry conversation was dominated by agents, tool use, MCP, and real-time reasoning. Batch APIs shipped with relatively little fanfare, but they represent a genuine shift in how we can use LLMs.”
Monday, 23 February 2026
This Is Imaginal Disk
Maia Mindel: “If the AI bet pays off, the labor market implodes. If the AI bet doesn’t, the capital market does.”
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
No Such Thing as Speed of Light
Russ Bishop: “I don’t know if Speed of Causality is the right phrasing but we need a better one. Quantum physics is brain-breaking enough, no need to go confusing the matter by inferring that the speed at which light travels is the cause of other phenomena.”
Friday, 13 February 2026
A eulogy for a newspaper
Michelle Jaconi: “The singular family-owned institution in America’s capital with the mission to care about people and serve its community had stopped doing both.”
Friday, 23 January 2026
US officially exits World Health Organization
Mary Kekatos, ABC News: “To fill the gaps that will be left by exiting the WHO, the official said there are ‘plans’ in place to work with organizations on surveillance, diagnostics and outbreak response.”
Thursday, 22 January 2026
Let’s save the human species!
Noah Smith: “But this is also a coping statement rather than a solution. For one thing, we have no idea if it’s true or not.”