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The Highest Loop — swyx
New video talk from swyx offers a fresh framing for AI builders right now.
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We Need All the Disciplines
LLM-assisted software workflows are expanding, making debates about roles, speed, and collaboration newly relevant.
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The Cost of Accessibility in AI — Jemima Abu, CAIS
Conference talk examines tradeoffs and hidden costs in making AI systems broadly accessible.
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The Craft of Practitioner Voice
Jim Highsmith added a new section expanding the craft details of practitioner voice.
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Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Works in Progress published a new essay arguing why Victorian elites were unusually effective.
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A new feature for my blog, built using my voice
Simon Willison published a new firsthand example of voice-driven coding on a live project.
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The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies
The newsletter reports a new internal AI app-building trend at tech companies.
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The state of the tech industry in 2026
It synthesizes what has changed, stayed constant, and broken in tech entering 2026.
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Our approach to EU text provenance rules
OpenAI outlines watermark applicability, detection, and researcher-first access under EU provenance rules.
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Fragments: October 4
New October 4 essay frames current LLM safety concerns through software practice and sci-fi history.
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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Agent-driven software can trigger runaway metered usage costs across APIs, hosting, storage, and compute.
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Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
Latent publishes a new interview with RLM first author Alex Zhang on Jev and harnesses.
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The eternal complement
OpenAI has published a new essay on AI’s role in execution and economic progress.
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Bliki: Sensible Default
The essay reframes engineering standards as defaults that should be reconsidered per context.
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Healthy Feedback
Martin Fowler just published this new essay on healthier peer feedback practices.
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This is why we play
Published in 2026 and offers an original reflection on games, community, and negative space.
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The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Simon highlights a newly resurfaced breakdown of the pelican-on-bicycle shot from the 1988 film.
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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
Published in September 2026 amid rising reliance on LLM-generated code and workflows.
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I don't like LLMs
Martin Fowler frames current developer ambivalence toward LLM usefulness, trust, tone, and broader societal risk.
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The LLMs yearn for the spines
GitHub pull request search shows a sharp 2026 increase in public PR titles containing “spine”.