Today
- I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day. I wrote about it before, but solving a little crime puzzle adds a micro-thrill to my day. A little blast of logic, misdirection, and wordplay. It’s a frequent topic of conversation in the ShopTalkShow Discord where people share their...
Yesterday
- 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. June 17, 2026 Rather than stand apart as some kind of revolution or rupture, language models should mostly cause us to reflect on the...
- June 17, 2026 We do not yet understand how to train language models! This seems obvious to me, because it ought to be possible — it will be possible — to produce a tight, capable “programmatic reasoner” with something like 30 billion parameters. The famous Scaling Laws only...
- Building a great organization is all about finding skills that complement each other. People tend to think everyone can do everything—especially at the leadership level. VP and above, the assumption is that for the amount they’re paid, leaders should be great strategically,...
This week
- One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes its evolution from keyword-based...
- “Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is it?” I didn’t connect...
- Mastra is now an agent meta-harness. Starting today, you can run Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex subagents from within Mastra. Subagents inherit Mastra's stream ......
- Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened. The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush created his own unclassified submarine to go sightseeing on the Titanic. Ignoring all advice from experts he created a "macgyveresque death...
- People who think current AI use is unsustainable often rely on the claim that inference GPUs only last “three years at the most” under load1. The idea here is that once the AI bubble money drains away, current infrastructure will rapidly become obsolete, and there won’t be...
- In the previous post, we introduced algebraic topology through one of its most important objects: chain complexes. We saw how chain complexes can be constructed from cellulations of manifolds and how they give rise to CSS codes. But the main reason both mathematicians and...
- Agents made writing code almost free. Understanding it costs what it always did, which is why review is now the bottleneck. The 2026 data is strikingly consistent on this, and yet most advice about AI code review is wrong for most people, because a solo developer with no users...
- In my previous article I discussed about the necessary evil to change the coding tests to filter engineers. As LLMs become the ultimate coders (producing boilerplate infinitely, instantly, and without fatigue) the software engineering workflow is rapidly shifting, and day-to-day...
- Programming tests used to be our primary filter to separate profiles. In software engineering, they historically differentiated three distinct ones: the engineers, the ones who solve the fundamental problems. the developers, the ones who apply the right patterns and orchestrate...
- A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland...
- And even though I just said it was indescribable, I’m going to try anyway. Last night, I was having a problem trying to set something up on CloudFront in my personal AWS account. I looked at the sidebar and thought, why not ask Amazon’s “built-in integrated AWS AI”? Logically,...
- If you’ve spent any time optimizing a home solar and battery setup, you quickly realize that the hardware is only half the battle. The real challenge is managing it intelligently. To make smart decisions about when to charge your batteries from the grid on cheap night rates,...
- For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome 🙂 ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art, and today it’s ready! There was quite a bit of fun mathematics in getting it to feel natural and work with all sizes of circles, but it seems to have worked out very well! …...
- About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the arguments I made that time because my views on the subject haven' t changed....
- After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …
- Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from The Pulse issue from two weeks ago. Full...
- Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?...
Last week
- Thousands of AI agent skills have flooded GitHub recently, most of them teaching models what they already know. The land grab is on....
- A single API call boots a sandbox, loads skills, and lets the model loop until the task is done. Here is what happens at each step....
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