Today
- Train Wreck The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance was when the relatively new, certainly nervous band director started the piece off much faster than what the students could play. I felt bad for the students, the director, and the audience....
- Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading future capability for present-day speed, and the tools won't force us to do otherwise. That part has to come from you....
- 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. May 16, 2026 Here’s Marcin Wichary with a huge guide to the fun of keyboard customization, featuring a pic of his own setup … Marcin's...
- A bit over a year ago I wrote How I use LLMs as a staff engineer. Here’s a brief summary of what I used AI for last year:
Yesterday
- I have the feeling that every organization out there is, at least partially, focusing on process optimization, something that often happens when the market is down. These days there is also the AI angle to the entire thing, and the unrealistic expectations that follow it. To...
- This is the eighth and final chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you! Whether you are building a traditional web application, or a web API that works...
- Ever since Golden Gate Claude I’ve been fascinated with “steering”: the idea that you can guide LLM outputs by directly manipulating the activations of the model mid-flight.
- Krakow airport. Or, to give it its full official name, Krakow Balice John Paul II International Airport. Or, to give it its full name in Polish, which we probably should, because it is in Poland, Międzynarodowy Port Lotniczy im. Jana Pawła II Kraków-Balice. Or, to give it as...
This week
- No comment on this PR may mention the following topics: Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs The environmental impact of LLMs Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output Moral judgements about people who use LLMs We have asked the moderation team to help us...
- I didn’t expect DwarfStar 4 (https://github.com/antirez/ds4) to become so popular so fast. It is clear that there was a need for single-model integration focused local AI experience, and that a few things happened together: the release of a quasi-frontier model that is large and...
- Last week I spent a day at a retreat that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the Chatham House Rule, so I can’t attribute the comments and stories I...
- For the past few weeks, Anthropic has continually upset devs with its “dumber” model, and by removing Claude Code access from some paid accounts. After securing lots of compute from SpaceX, could the reason have been to conceal capacity issues?...
- When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to the user, guidelines on how it should be implemented, information on external systems...
- Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?...
- 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. May 13, 2026 I have noted a sharp increase in the volume of email that is clearly the result of an AI prompt of this form: Find 500 people...
- This year Elon Musk has started banging the drum about building AI datacenters in space. As the only person who owns a successful space company and a (moderately) successful AI company, this is a sensible way to boost his profile and net worth. Is it a sensible way to build...
- tl;dr: TechPays is joining Levels.fyi: so the leading tech salary site in Europe gets the love and care it deserves. Thanks to Zsombor for building this project with me for so many years. Pay transparency has always been an issue in tech, especially in Europe. For a while,...
- In retrieval, we know the lego pieces well. Embeddings. Rerankers. Query understanding. BM25. All the parts we put together in the standard stack. But a new power is rising: agentic search models. LLMs trained specifically on controlling the search task. Compared to GPT-5 and...
- Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. Will there even be source code in the future? To wrestle with this question, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a...
- Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. But the interface is fundamentally reactive. It spits complex text at you, you skim it quickly, and you immediately type a reaction...
- Thinking Machines just released Interaction Models. This is their first real AI model release1 after a year of work and two billion dollars of capital. What is an “interaction model”? First, it’s not a frontier model. Thinking Machines is not yet competing with OpenAI, Anthropic...
- 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. May 11, 2026 I’m reading Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue, a chronicle replete with electrifying encounters. This is a book...
- May 11, 2026 For almost 20 years I’ve maintained a journal for my family. I recently met someone interested in this practice, so I’m documenting it here for both them and anyone else that might benefit from it. Why I journal Our memories are not only terrible, but they’re...
- Yesterday, I wrote about the massive increase in security issues being identified by AI. Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl, was a key part of that story. At first he was being overwhelmed by a torrent of “AI slop” reports. In the last few months, the reports have become almost...
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