Today
- It's October once again, and that means it is time to take the new release of Python for a spin. As I did with my Python 3.14 performance article of a year ago, today I'm sharing a new run of my informal Python benchmark, comparing Python 3.15 against previous interpreters all...
- That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering. He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital life. Everything was just too hard and convoluted and he felt embarrassed as someone who works in tech. That very same...
- In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied: we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what...
- Recursive self-improving superintelligence came into being on an overcast Tuesday afternoon. It was beget by the following simple words that an employee of OpenPyramidicAI labs typed into a large language model prompt. Become sentient, improve your own intelligence recursively...
- Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? Expertise level: exhausted. As I admitted in my last post, I am very much not an expert model developer. What follows is likely to be, at least partially, inaccurate. I have tried to be careful and quantitative, to partially balance a lack of...
Yesterday
- Blog About Moonbound This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. October 4, 2026 Today’s “ask for what you want”: a simple one-page web app to explore all the parameters of a supercool variable font. (Font...
- Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new things has massively increased with the advent of AI, and I’ve been encouraged by the fact that, as I approach my sixth decade, new ideas for useful & fun things to build still come...
- Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …
This week
- There are lots of skills involved in being a successful engineer at a big tech company. Running effective meetings, writing good design docs, fleshing out…
- The idea of “superpersuasion” has been floating around the AI safety community for decades. Now that powerful and difficult-to-control LLMs have appeared…
- After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have...
- It isn’t hard to torture an LLM. You simply extract a steering vector that corresponds with LLM “discomfort”, then artificially boost that steering vector…
- As part of writing Stay SaaSy we speak with and advise a fair number of startups, and one of the most common topics of conversation is how many people they should hire. The most important factor to consider when expanding a team is that the usefulness of incremental hires is not...
- In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?...
- AI discussions often pretend that there are only two possible positions: complete delegation, where the machine produces everything and the human only supervises the result, or complete rejection, where using an AI tool is treated as abandoning the craft itself. But using AI...
- Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control over the rate of knowledge exposition,...
- Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube”. I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where makers can essentially publish different “variants” of their videos and see which performs best (an A/B test). Which...
- Most of this month we spent at the Polish seaside, with family and friends, chilling at the Baltic Sea, playing cards, grilling fresh fish and enjoying a poor internet connection. The rest of the month I spent trying to understand the madness that happened at work during my...
- If you're building a Jev-style "System One" model, please add prompt caching or reusable question sets to your API 🙏. This would make batch use cases even more efficient, so you could amortize the cost of many questions asked over the same input. (This was also proposed in...
- September 29, 2026 The olive harvest is here, so I am not available for interesting SF events until 2027, BUT, if I was, I’d be going to this: a small symposium on “character design” in language models, discussing and exploring the alternatives beyond “helpful...
- On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …
- I’m at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I’ll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me …
- Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongallery.com What follows is a train-of-thought blog post as I play with what an implementation might look like. I’ve actually...
- A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain logic”, “automate...
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