Today
- There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that everything is exploding as an exponential and you always get hypey essays about how YOU, YOU DUMB DUMB, DONT...
- There are a lot of prime classes, such as left truncating primes, twin primes, mersenne primes, palindromic primes, emirp primes and so on. The Wikipedia page on primes lists many more. Recently I got to thinking (as one is wont to do) how difficult would it be to come up with a...
Yesterday
- SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness Roll the dice. Paul E. McKenney’s 1990 paper Stochastic Fairness Queuing contains one of my favorite little algorithms for distributed systems. Stochastic Fairness Queuing is a way to stochastically isolate workloads from different...
- There’s a lot of noise about how AI is changing programming these days. It can be a bit overwhelming. If you hang out on social media, you’ll hear wild claims about people running 12 agents at once, for days. Or people hacking bots together, giving them $10k, and letting them...
- Software engineering is not about writing code anymore. It is about building the factory that builds your software....
This week
- I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to …
- Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you could possibly read, while missing the hidden gems. I built Scour specifically because I wanted to find the great articles I...
- I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things. But some talks are worth a watch, and I do suggest this overview on how organizations are currently using AI by Laura Tacho. There’s various nuggets of data from her work with DX:...
- February 25, 2026 Here is Derek Thompson on AI and where it’s going: [ … ] I feel lucky to be able to have conversations about the frontier of AI with executives and builders at frontier labs; economists at AI conferences; investors in AI; and other AI folks at...
- I’m Robin Sloan, a writer, printer, & manufacturer. The best thing to do here is sign up for my email newsletter: This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page. Don’t miss the colophon. Hony...
- Here's how I've made it easier for you to call into the Call Kent podcast without having to record yourself and also make yourself anonymous using AI....
- I've added some pretty cool AI-powered features to kentcdodds.com and I want to tell you all about it....
- Anthropic recently released a blog post with the description of an experiment in which the last version of Opus, the 4.6, was instructed to write a C compiler in Rust, in a “clean room” setup. The experiment methodology left me dubious about the kind of point they wanted to...
- Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patterns that help improve the interaction with the LLM, and describes the first of these: priming the LLM with knowledge about...
- Herman's blog Home Now Projects Blog 24 Feb, 2026 A few days ago some 4 or 5 OpenClaw instances opened blogs on Bear. These were picked up at review and blocked, and I've since locked down the signup and dashboard to this kind of automated traffic. What was quite funny is that I...
- Two papers published in early 2026 suggest you might have just made your agent slower, more expensive, and no more accurate. The right mental model is to treat AGENTS.md as a living list of codebase smells you haven't fixed yet, not a permanent configuration....
- 24 Feb 2026 "How far back in time can you understand English?", a post that tells a story starting with the English of 2000 AD and ending with the English of 1000 AD has gone viral, and gotten a lot of people interested in older forms of English. A common sentiment expressed by...
- February 23, 2026 On his fabulous new blog, Marcin Wichary linked to a post of mine, the one where I wrote: What makes the AI chatbots and agents feel light and clean, here and now in 2026? Is it an innate architectural resistance to advertising, to attention hacks, to...
- Why can’t models continue to get smarter after they’re deployed? If you hire a human employee, they will grow more familiar with your systems over time, and (if they stick around long enough) eventually become a genuine domain expert. AI models are not like this. They are always...
- In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this...
- I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …
- Over the years, I’ve used different icon sets on my blog. Right now I use Heroicons. The recommended way to use them is to copy/paste the source from the website directly into your HTML. It’s a pretty straightforward process: Go to the website Search for the icon you want Hover...
- 23 Feb, 2026 There's a conspiracy theory that suggests that since around 2016 most web activity is automated. This is called Dead Internet Theory, and while I think they may have jumped the gun by a few years, it's heading that way now that LLMs can simulate online interactions...
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