Today
- 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...
- I've added some pretty cool AI-powered features to kentcdodds.com and I want to tell you all about it....
- 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...
Yesterday
- 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...
- Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security, has some advice on how to mitigate the risks. While there is no proven safe way to run high-permissioned agents today, there are...
- How many millions of times have you seen this pattern in Go where a variable is pre-created just to make a pointer to it down the line? There is a high chance your codebase includes a utility to do that. // Something like this a := 123 aPtr := &a // Or like this func Pointer[T...
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 23, 2026 My path through programming has largely involved strategic avoidance: of complexity, fragility, excessive moving...
- If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance....
- Speculation about what’s really going on inside a tech company is almost always wrong. When some problem with your company is posted on the internet, and you read people’s thoughts on it, their thoughts are almost always ridiculous. For instance, they might blame product...
- I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me. I mean that beyond the general advice to touch grass. From an ADHD and generalized anxiety perspective, computers and the internet have become an endless supply of poison...
- SITUATION: there are 14 competing AI labs. “We can’t trust any of these people with super-intelligence. We need to build it ourselves to ensure it’s done right!" “YEAH!” SOON: there are 15 competing AI labs. (See: xkcd on standards.) The irony: “we’re the responsible ones” is...
- How working within hard limits produced some of the most elegant software in history, and what we can learn from it....
This week
- February 22, 2026 Here is the most spectacular demo of present AI systems: pull out your phone, initiate Gemini’s live voice mode, say “please translate this conversation between English and Japanese”, and allow the system to act as a responsive and competent live...
- If code is free, why aren’t all apps native? The state of coding agents can be summed up by this fact Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. If you’re unfamiliar, Electron is a coding framework for...
- Your pricing page promises usage-based credits and hybrid plans. Your billing system runs on two duct-taped Stripe subscriptions and a spreadsheet. Everyone changed their pricing in 2025. Almost nobody changed what's behind it. The post Your pricing sucks (and your billing...
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 20, 2026 Here’s an interesting and surprising nugget in a recent post by Justin Duke, he of Buttondown: From both onboarding...
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