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The Coherence Premium
February 3, 2026
In 1937, the British economist Ronald Coase asked a question that seems almost embarrassingly simple: why do firms exist at all? If markets are so efficient at allocating resources, why don’t we...
Read MoreHierarchical memory management in agent harnesses | LinkedIn
February 3, 2026
We’ve seen incredible momentum toward files as the memory layer for agents, and this has accelerated significantly over the last year. But why use the file system, and why use Unix commands? What ar...
Read MoreIs Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026? – DEV Community
February 3, 2026
With modern frameworks, component libraries, and utility-first CSS, it’s a fair question. Most frontend developers today rarely write “real” CSS. Layouts come prebuilt. Responsiveness is handled...
Read MoreAI open models have benefits. So why aren’t they more widely used? | MIT Sloan
February 2, 2026
A new paper co-authored by Frank Nagle, a research scientist at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, found that users largely opt for closed, proprietary AI inference models, namely those from O...
Read MoreHow Product Discovery changes with AI – by David Hoang
February 2, 2026
In Jenny Wen’s talk at Hatch Conference in 2025, “Don’t Trust the Process,” she raises an important point: the processes we’ve established are rapidly becoming lagging indicators. Process is...
Read MoreOne Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch
January 29, 2026
One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch (via) embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor’s FastRender browser project – thousands of parallel agents producing ~1...
Read MoreThe Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory – Dan Shapiro’s Blog
January 29, 2026
If you are just using ChatGPT to write your regex, you aren’t really getting the benefits of deflation. You’re just typing faster. I’ve now seen dozens of companies struggling to put AI to wor...
Read MoreThis is a Time of Technical Deflation – Dan Shapiro’s Blog
January 29, 2026
Now economists have this thing they call deflation. For an economy, it’s a nightmare. Prices drop day after day, creating a psychological trap where consumers stop spending. Why buy a washing machin...
Read MoreWhy Designers Can No Longer Trust the Design Process
January 27, 2026
For years, designers have been told to trust the process. Research first. Personas. Journey maps. Problem statements. Then solutions. In this talk from Hatch Conference, Jenny Wen, Design Lead at Anth...
Read Morethe browser is the sandbox | AI Focus
January 27, 2026
This got me thinking about the browser. Over the last 30 years, we have built a sandbox specifically designed to run incredibly hostile, untrusted code from anywhere on the web, the instant a user tap...
Read MoreHow To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading – fast.ai
January 22, 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is...
Read MoreElectricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch
January 22, 2026
Throughout 2025, we got better estimates of electricity and water use of AI chatbots. There are all sorts of posts I could cite on this topic, but a favorite is this blog post from Our World in Data...
Read MoreSome Thoughts on the Open Web
January 21, 2026
“The Open Web” means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web’s Openness in terms of access to information — how easy it i...
Read Morejordanhubbard/nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
January 21, 2026
A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs Source...
Read MoreI was a top 0.01% Cursor user. Here’s why I switched to Claude Code 2.0. | Silen
January 20, 2026
You have 6-7 articles bookmarked about Claude Code. You’ve seen the wave. You want to be a part of it. Here’s a comprehensive guide from someone who’s been using coding AI since 2021...
Read MoreScaling long-running autonomous coding
January 20, 2026
In my predictions for 2026 the other day I said that by 2029: I think somebody will have built a full web browser mostly using AI assistance, and it won’t even be surprising. Rolling a new web brows...
Read MoreCode Reviewing AI-Generated JavaScript: What I Found – Schalk Neethling – Open Web Engineer
January 20, 2026
I recently had an AI agent build a JavaScript utility for calculating road distances using a third-party API. The task was complex: batch multiple API requests, validate inputs and outputs, handle err...
Read MoreThe year everything changed – Network Games
January 19, 2026
In popular imagination, “AI” has come to mean the cheap version of ChatGPT, prattling in a grating tone with too many emojis, variously misleading and making things up. AI, in this view, is a stup...
Read MoreRalph Wiggum Loop Explained
January 19, 2026
The Ralph Wiggum Loop is getting a lot of attention in the AI agent space, but there’s still confusion about what it actually is and what problem it’s trying to solve. In this video, we break down...
Read MoreAs AI coding agents take flight, what does this mean for jobs?
January 19, 2026
But if AI is doing more of the software building grunt work, what does that mean for the humans involved? It’s a question that’s front-of-mind for just about everyone in the industry. Anthony Goto...
Read MoreCode as Commodity
January 19, 2026
Thanks to generative AI, code is following a similar pattern. Projects that would have been uneconomic through traditional software development are now just a prompt away. Those 500+-products-per-day ...
Read MoreAI-Assisted Development at Block | Block Engineering Blog
January 19, 2026
About 95% of our engineers are regularly using AI to assist with their development efforts. The largest population is at Stage 5, running a single agent mostly outside of an IDE. The second largest po...
Read MorePorting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent
January 16, 2026
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for. However, things have advanced since. Yesterda...
Read MoreMike Olson – Managing AI Like You Manage People
January 16, 2026
With the release of Claude Opus 4.5 (and the pace of improvement in frontier models), we’ve reached the point where AI coding assistants can handle tasks that would previously require a team of skil...
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