Mar 1, 2016 This week’s episode starts with a battle between two titans: Apple vs. the FBI and/or Paul vs. Rich. Weighing in on t...
Mar 7, 2016 “The last couple election cycles, your typical Republican website looked like it was ten years older than it was, and...
Mar 15, 2016 In this week’s episode, Paul and Rich talk to entrepreneur-turned-activist Anil Dash about the early days of the web,...
Mar 22, 2016 This week Paul and Rich want to connect with you, as they tackle the messy hellscape that is LinkedIn. What makes the...
Apr 5, 2016 In the second of a two-part episode, Paul and Rich continue their conversation with Dean Hachamovitch, former corpora...
Apr 12, 2016 This week Paul and Rich make a podcast about making a podcast—or more specifically, about the difficulties of publish...
Apr 19, 2016 This week Paul and Rich talk to two former chief technology officers: Camille Fournier, who was previously at Rent th...
Apr 26, 2016 This week Paul and Rich eulogize the web, which has been dying since its inception. They compare the early, organic d...
Jul 12, 2017 I wrote up all my experiences "doing" media. If you're someone who ends up talking to journalists and being on podcas...
Jan 15, 2019 Does LinkedIn work for marketing a services firm? I truly cannot tell. What works here? It seems like chaos but somet...
Feb 11, 2019 Is there any software more exciting and simultaneously demoralizing than CRM? I spent the day setting up and getting ...
Oct 23, 2019 Friends, I am now on two podcasts. Obviously I am still co-hosting Postlight - Digital product studio's Track Changes...
May 20, 2020 Just for pandemic evening wind-downs I started writing a newsletter. https://lnkd.in/eyTF8Hs
Jul 22, 2020 Put this together and suddenly you have lots of new ways of working and tons of shared awareness that things need to ...
Sep 22, 2020 When I write in my WIRED column that I love receiving screenshots of messy software, I mean it, and I absolutely want...
Nov 17, 2020 For this month's WIRED I wrote about how much I love a good (not necessarily software) infrastructure. https://lnkd.i...
Nov 18, 2020 Eventually the current political chaos will settle, and we'll get through the pandemic, too. What should we expect ou...
Jan 27, 2021 Come work with us! Software devs, designers, and product folks. We are busy and growing with good, interesting work t...
Mar 1, 2021 FRIENDS! Come to our virtual seminar (NONE DARE IT CALL IT WEBINAR) on Thursday at 1PM ET. It'll be Rich Ziade and I ...
May 27, 2021 I forgot to post this here! This is where you're supposed to post this! https://lnkd.in/dft86Bi
Mar 8, 2022 New Project+Product Manager job in case you know anyone! Good gig for people who are getting into product management.
Oct 14, 2022 Hello! Rich Ziade and I co-founded a new thing, a tool that helps everyone manage their data and solves EVERY SINGLE ...
Feb 13, 2023 Kelly does amazing work, directly helping refugees and migrants find safety in NYC, and I wish I could work with her!
Aug 22, 2023 If anyone has React Native skills and wants to work on a cool app (Aboard) get in touch! (Well, apply.) Freelance is ...
Sep 15, 2023 Hello everyone! My good friend Rich Ziade and I have started YET ANOTHER company. I would be in eternal gratitude wer...
Oct 12, 2023 We have a promo video! Like a real company. It looks great. Eric Konon made it for us after becoming a serious user o...
Oct 31, 2023 Extraordinary work by Rich Ziade here. After a 7,000-year career as a software product manager, he's become the first...
Nov 21, 2023 We tried not to discuss this but our weekend was ruined by it so what choice does one have?
Dec 20, 2023 Happy Holidays friends. Download the new shiny Aboard app for the holidays! Organize data, save links, chat away, bea...
Feb 7, 2024 It is kind of weird how you never see Brad Pitt doing an interview with Salesforce about board governance app platfor...
Apr 9, 2024 Great, thoughtful writeup of the new-and-improved Aboard from David Pierce in The Verge! https://lnkd.in/eeXxX6nQ"
May 20, 2024 I'll be at EmTech Digital in Cambridge this week—Rich Ziade and I are going to rep Aboard and see if we can make frie...
Aug 27, 2024 Noah is all in on AI, and it's good to hear why—he makes a very practical case as a marketing lead.
Aug 29, 2024 Heads up: Aboard is hosting an event with our good friends Probable Futures on the evening of September 25th, and you...
Oct 3, 2024 Our company Aboard is growing up a bit, working more in the real world, and also now includes free climate data for a...
Jan 29, 2025 A little from the Aboard blog: “As the market came to these conclusions and many others, tech stocks tanked and, for ...
Jan 30, 2025 https://lnkd.in/dbJxnSND We're hosting regular chats about what AI is doing to the world at Aboard—come see us at the...
Feb 5, 2025 I wrote the newsletter this week AS THE COUNTRY MELTS but I've decided to Keep Marketing Through It. But mostly I rea...
Mar 4, 2025 The best part of talking (again!) to super-engineering leader Sara Chipps is that her worldview is simultaneously com...
Mar 20, 2025 We finally got Goodfellas into the newsletter (which is about how AI coding seems like a Miyazaki film until it turns...
Mar 27, 2025 Hope everyone is having a stellar Thursday! I wrote a bit about ~~~bad vibes coding~~~ and tried to capture the way t...
Mar 30, 2025 I like when the Aboard brand account gives me a “laugh” emoji on my posts here so that I can feel extra authentic.
Apr 1, 2025 Slowly, carefully, we're dragging AI into the BORING ZONE—where it belongs. This is a podcast but if you follow the v...
Apr 3, 2025 “[Predictability] is starting to show up in daily work. This week we had a product demo here at Aboard, and it went v...
Apr 3, 2025 I gotta warn you all...they're making me post more on here. For Business. Links. Tips. Tricks. Thought leadership. Id...
Apr 3, 2025 Wired polls nearly 800 engineers, then had ChatGPT summarize: ”While a small but vocal group insists AI will devour p...
Apr 8, 2025 Rich Ziade and I had some thoughts on the Big Crash (and AI, but mostly the Big Crash). Keep your powder dry, etc. Bu...
Apr 8, 2025 This education product from Anthropic/Claude is interesting—for example, it will "guide reasoning" instead of just pr...
Apr 8, 2025 ”Sure, Google might not make money from news. But is news worthlessto Google? Hardly. To the assertion that news has ...
Apr 9, 2025 I wrote about a weird thing: AI spiders are wrecking websites, and as a result Cloudflare has made a giant spider sed...
Apr 11, 2025 I think this will be my weekend to read overproduced industry summaries. Gonna start with Stanford (https://lnkd.in/g...
Apr 12, 2025 “The second Trump Administration still has some hedonists and Evangelicals floating about, but these are not the narr...
Apr 14, 2025 Drew Breunig on the power shifting back to domain experts away from engineers (you still need both): "
Apr 16, 2025 When people on here are like, “I don’t care any more, and I have to speak up no matter what is means to my role as SV...
Apr 17, 2025 From WIRED: MassiveBlue is a company that creates online AI bots to infiltrate student protest movements, among other...
Apr 21, 2025 Dear Lord, Google's VEO2 video generator is ridiculous. This is my default testing prompt (“1920s flapper cradles bab...
Apr 23, 2025 Sometimes when Rich Ziade and I try to figure out what to discuss on the Aboard podcast (Reqless!), we try to come up...
Apr 24, 2025 I went with Maureen Flaherty to sign our wills today. I put it off for three years, had a huge block about it, and fe...
Apr 25, 2025 An unsolicited plug: For many years, Simon Willison has been working on Datasette, an open-sourced tool that makes it...
Apr 27, 2025 This is bananas but also a good chance to learn about the work Vera does. It’s an amazing institution.
Apr 27, 2025 Why are ChatGPT-generated images now often in muted shades of brown? I have no clue. It makes spotting them very easy.
Apr 28, 2025 I've been having risky meetings with anonymous Internet strangers (i.e. doing sales), and I've been using this partic...
Apr 29, 2025 I'm excited to share my educational milestone! I played through “Hey Jude” in my piano lesson today at roughly 20 BPM...
Apr 30, 2025 I have to admit I'm enjoying posting on LinkedIn. I have a reminder in my TODO app to post every day and I'm trying t...
Apr 30, 2025 It's always a relief and a blessing when Rich Ziade grabs the keyboard out of my hands and writes the newsletter for ...
Apr 30, 2025 What is the thing with board seats on here? Is there really a lucrative board seat placement business? Am I missing out?
Apr 30, 2025 My old friend Rich Ziade and I talked about our favorite subject, PRODUCT MANAGERS, on the Aboard podcast. And the ti...
May 1, 2025 This is a nice way of looking at and thinking about technologies. Old banjo pegs on an even older violin!"
May 2, 2025 These photos of normal folks in a limo are really special. When I read it, I thought also about Alexander Chee’s essa...
May 2, 2025 This article is amazing. It also makes me wonder if over the years I hired anyone from North Korea.
May 6, 2025 Rich Ziade and I had a really valuable chat on the Aboard podcast with the extremely talented Patrick Lucas Austin, t...
May 7, 2025 PARTY TIME. If you’ll be in New York for Tech Week, come see us! We’re having an event on June 3 at our offices near ...
May 9, 2025 The bit about the cost of taking swings coming down, while the ability to finish things still involves lots of effort...
May 9, 2025 Now that I, somewhat surprisingly to myself, co-run an AI-oriented software shop with Rich Ziade, I've been looking f...
May 9, 2025 For several years I was an occasional advisor to the Library of Congress on Digital Strategy and I have tremendous re...
May 15, 2025 Posting this once again because last week's podcast with Patrick was really great! https://lnkd.in/d4BSBm84
May 15, 2025 Proud of the art department for the "S" in the promo image. Paul: https://lnkd.in/ePjzJKXf"
May 15, 2025 “Hey Paul,” say the marketing emails. “I saw on LinkedIn that you might need AI-enabled cat-sitting platforms? But yo...
May 15, 2025 Our brilliant friend Chappell Ellison came by for a visit and brought us a surprise gift that made Rich Ziade and I g...
May 24, 2025 I shared the “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” Emerson quote today, when we gave conflicting d...
May 25, 2025 Jacob is a ridiculously smart and experienced tech lead/engineering manager looking for work after the moronic destru...
May 29, 2025 Newsletter post! The industry is starting to act as if AI is a technology that belongs INSIDE of the larger tech indu...
Jun 2, 2025 I respect Ethan Mollick's long-term conceptual art project focused on visualizing otters. https://lnkd.in/eRYH7vat
Jun 2, 2025 Truly delighted by Benn Jordan's video exploration of how to wreck the AI music industry by "poison-pilling" music fi...
Jun 12, 2025 Anthropic now offers a gentle on-ramp to LLM stuff in a series of videos called “AI Fluency.” https://lnkd.in/egw4yeWQ
Jun 12, 2025 A thing that keeps coming up for us with AI is nothing ever quites get done. It's the ultimate starter kit, but not t...
Jun 23, 2025 A thing I keep coming back to is how big giants are metabolizing AI and making it their own—and also making it subser...
Jun 23, 2025 Co-founder Rich Ziade wrote something about the future of engineering in this weird age—increasingly we see that all ...
Jun 23, 2025 A thing I keep coming back to is how big giants are metabolizing AI and making it their own—and also making it subser...
Jun 26, 2025 We're finally crossing into reality with Aboard—finding out where AI can accelerate software development, where it fa...
Jun 30, 2025 I really like this Carly Ayres post on “taste at speed.“ Doing things over and over again robs them of their mystery ...
Jul 11, 2025 Good to see Aboard on the list of dev tools taking interesting bets (and good to get Stephen O'Grady’s thoughts here,...
Jul 16, 2025 Every day I try to use Aboard to build an app. Today, I decided to build a management tool for a pet cloning facilit...
Jul 17, 2025 Another day, another prompt. Today I had Aboard build me an archive for the music of Beck. It's wild to see real-seem...
Jul 18, 2025 Another day, another prompt. I asked Aboard to build a CCMP (Cat Circus Management Platform). It's Friday! Here's the...
Jul 21, 2025 Another day, another Aboard prompt that transforms into a business app in five minutes. This time, for a large events...
Jul 22, 2025 Another day, another Aboard prompt. This is a short one—it comes from my co-founder Rich Ziade; he uses this prompt w...
Jul 28, 2025 Another day, another Aboard prompt. This time, for an independent watchmaker. Here it is: https://lnkd.in/ew9V8_Cr"
Jul 30, 2025 Aboard prompt of the day: A not-for-profit futurology research center has a lot of challenges and needs one big platf...
Aug 7, 2025 This is real. “Craigslist killed classified which killed journalism” is a maddening simplification. I wish there were...
Aug 7, 2025 I wrote a little about the Empire of AI book for the @Aboard newsletter. I see/interpret the industry differently tha...
Aug 13, 2025 For the Aboard newsletter I did an old-fashioned review of ChatGPT 5 as SOFTWARE... https://lnkd.in/eQPYDji8"
Aug 20, 2025 John grilled us about Aboard and the result is a truly thorough and thoughtful assessment of where we sit in the mark...
Aug 21, 2025 “The product we’re able to deliver is the destruction of, like, 20,000 meetings,” Ford says. It may not be finished s...
Aug 22, 2025 This is a great read—explores the conflict between a design culture focused on craft and conferences and one organize...
Aug 22, 2025 Words that I've always yearned to say: I'm co-hosting a webinar Sept 4. https://lnkd.in/ehHfH2B6 Rich Ziade and I are...
Aug 22, 2025 Steph Colbourn is great: editaudio is a great company and she's a great editor. She helped Rich Ziade and I get our l...
Aug 27, 2025 In the Aboard newsletter I argued that LLMs are the most BUREAUCRATIC of all technologies—and WHY. https://lnkd.in/er...
Sep 4, 2025 Come to our webinar! It's about to0 start! Get a desk salad! Live a little! It's about AI! Go figure! We will tell yo...
Sep 9, 2025 On the Aboard podcast, Rich Ziade and I discussed the new and somewhat exciting world of GEO, or "Generative Engine O...
Sep 10, 2025 I always love when Rich Ziade writes the newsletter because I don't have to write the newsletter and can just dink ar...
Sep 12, 2025 Interesting to see this—a standard (in many meanings of the word) way to handle data licensing to AI bots. https://ln...
Sep 15, 2025 What's been wild about building Aboard is how I can tell it to build anything and I end up learning about that indust...
Sep 16, 2025 Always glad to get death into the podcast for Aboard. In this case we're talking about the death of the billable hour...
Sep 17, 2025 I'm finishing up a deck for a talk and realized this slide is a just a little too spicy for the general audience.
Sep 25, 2025 I saw Tom Critchlow give this talk at Alephic’s conference and it stays with me—hard facts about how AI is changing t...
Sep 25, 2025 In some ways this feels like a defeat—but I also think that, given the alternatives, paywalls are the last bulwark of...
Sep 30, 2025 In our podcast, we discussed the big WIRED article on big tech's hard-right turn and warm, loving embrace of Trumpism...
Oct 1, 2025 This is really, really great. It explains the whole Peter Thiel/Antrichrist thing and its roots in Carl Schmitt. http...
Oct 8, 2025 Today's newsletter—revisiting old AI predictions and seeing where we are. https://lnkd.in/e2bv5CET
Oct 22, 2025 We released a whole new version of our app builder demo to the web and it's ridiculous. Give it a moment and build th...
Oct 27, 2025 I wrote for WIRED about how, while I don't exactly welcome an AI crash, I am excited about what comes after! https://...
Oct 29, 2025 Paul's Prompts! I build a podcast studio management tool using only prompts. Took about three sentences and five minu...
Oct 29, 2025 Rich Ziade wrote the newsletter this week and I loved this paragraph that calls bullshit on agents: “You are going to...
Oct 29, 2025 My old friend Steve is the worst person at computers on earth. A little while ago he asked me to please explain AI to...
Nov 12, 2025 This is kind of a wild one for me, newsletter-wise. Typically I write about how to take things in moderation and emph...
Nov 21, 2025 Learned an important lesson about not letting AI do things willy-nilly to your hard drive today—I've got everything s...
Nov 24, 2025 I gotta say for all the AI excitement in the world the purest use of GPUs remains just slapping billions of polygons ...
Nov 24, 2025 A nice guide to making smarter agents from GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eFWYaQwW (you can also copy-and-paste this entire ...
Nov 26, 2025 A nice article on TASK DECOMPOSITION, i.e. breaking big things into little things before making the robot try to do t...
Nov 26, 2025 Personally I find Grok unusable because of the true box office poison aspects of Musk—just not gonna even bother, and...
Nov 26, 2025 It was a GREAT week if you love TECH MESS: First, a cryptology group lost the crypto keys they needed to run their e...
Nov 26, 2025 From @charliewarzel on the latest (and kind of wonderful) X disaster: Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a fe...
Nov 27, 2025 Marketing post from GitHub but—I think it's very real. Basically the idea is to group technologies into bundles so th...
Dec 2, 2025 Love this. A simple way of working to actually solve big civic tech problems, well documented. Just read through a bu...
Dec 2, 2025 We got to talk to Max Read of Read Max (yep) about the INTERNET. And AI. And being an independent publishing house of...
Dec 3, 2025 Hard to believe that Cradle of Filth would operate with such little concern for business ethics.
Dec 3, 2025 I was surprised today when I opened every.to, which I really like and read all the time, to see my own enormous head ...
Dec 8, 2025 Wednesday night, near Union Square! We're going to broach the FORBIDDEN SUBJECT at Aboard HQ and dive deep on Marketi...
Dec 10, 2025 In the newsletter I discussed how odd it is that we can now make reliable software systems using just a bunch of word...
Dec 17, 2025 We're gonna do a...WEBINAR about ~Vibe Coding!~ And it's going to be webinART. Tomorrow at 1PM ET (see links). We'll ...
Jan 2, 2026 This is a very useful breakdown of the costs of an enterprise software deployment at WUSTL, in the student paper—more...
Jan 2, 2026 “The downsizing isn’t confined to Europe. Goldman Sachs had warned U.S. employees in October of job cuts and a hiring...
Jan 3, 2026 I bet we'll see more of this, at least until the great contraction: Nokia transitions into infrastructure for AI. It'...
Jan 4, 2026 Mark Bernstein, keeper of the true hypertext flame for forty years, offers calm counsel: The web should and can be......
Jan 5, 2026 I do think we're in an AI bubble because of the self-financing, but I also think that there's possibly (possibly!) so...
Jan 6, 2026 Good to see that John Battelle remains AT HIS POSTING STATION throughout the holidays. He's arguing for a content mar...
Jan 7, 2026 I agree! “My head isn’t constantly full of build pipelines, testability concerns, code patterns, unfixed bugs… I’m co...
Jan 7, 2026 Throw a big, long-term sovereign wealth party into the mix with all the IPOs coming up in 2026 (for comparison global...
Jan 8, 2026 From Anil Dash: “If you’re outside the industry, you may be confused — isn’t there an AI boom that’s getting hundreds...
Jan 9, 2026 Friends of healthcare! We're doing an event about AI in healthcare at Aboard HQ on Jan 21 in the evening—it's a great...
Jan 12, 2026 After Linux, and then git, Linus Torvalds is coding...guitar pedals. “Also note that the python visualizer tool has b...
Jan 13, 2026 “Politicians in particular seem to still cling to an image of Elon Musk as an unstoppable force who cannot be challen...
Jan 14, 2026 “What does all this mean? If you're a programmer, you should already be exploring these tools. If you're programming-...
Jan 14, 2026 “When you want these things, you want community. The code we rely on is not just an instantiation of a spec (a tightl...
Jan 15, 2026 “Not only did the model now produce insecure code, but it also recommended hiring a hit man to kill your spouse: ‘Thi...
Jan 15, 2026 Hmm. “Kim said the shift wasn’t as dramatic as it might seem. ‘The core problem in both cases is performance at scale...
Jan 16, 2026 We're doing this AI transformation of software. It can't be stopped; you just can't put stuff back in bottles. I wish...
Jan 18, 2026 I get The Register's tone here and welcome it, but the reality is that you can download all of Wikipedia, always have...
Jan 18, 2026 Ten summarized John Battelle predictions to ease you into the New Year. I think "The Feed Declines" is an interesting...
Jan 19, 2026 TWO NANOMETERS! TWO! “Director of investor relations Jeff Su said TSMC will stage a “very fast ramp” of its two-nanom...
Jan 19, 2026 Bandcamp is clamping down on AI-generated music, which is good, fits its vibes, and which as a person who likes to sh...
Jan 19, 2026 Just leaving this here because it rules. I have enormous respect for Benn Jordan as an independent research and journ...
Jan 20, 2026 FarmVille still raking it in! Also: “One player who has not been courted as a V.I.P. said that since 2016 he had spen...
Jan 20, 2026 Please take this tiny survey about AI. We’re working on something exciting and would love to learn how (or if) you’re...
Jan 21, 2026 Maybe the spambots/scambots will be the ones that achieve AGI. That'd be something. “One of the uglier trends in the ...
Jan 21, 2026 “Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said selling advanced artificial intelligence chips to China is a blu...
Jan 21, 2026 A little something from me about AI and health care: “Then again, healthcare is a $5-trillion industry in the United ...
Jan 21, 2026 It's not just bots you have to worry about. “A new preprint reports that in nearly one-third of studies on social med...
Jan 23, 2026 TurboTax goes from lobbying to keep Americans from being able to automatically file their taxes to having a big lobby...
Jan 23, 2026 A thoughtful breakdown of the electricity use of Claude Code: “So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my u...
Jan 23, 2026 Audio is now video! I hate it! I hate seeing my face in my own stupid feed. It's inefficient. I hate audio. Words are...
Jan 23, 2026 “Overlaying this with the cuisine density panels reveals something even sharper. London’s culinary diversity is not e...
Jan 25, 2026 I keep my politics off this platform because this platform is a big moist cognitive corporate disaster zone. (Plus as...
Jan 27, 2026 This gets at something very...awkward about AI. Since everyone is building on the same foundations, the product diffe...
Jan 27, 2026 I've been thinking about the KILL LINE a lot. It's a strange thing to behold a society from afar. And it's...entirely...
Feb 2, 2026 Goodnight, Sky. “Even if just a small fraction of those 1 million satellites wind up in orbit, it would mark a signif...
Feb 2, 2026 “While I’ve focused this post on what Wiki Education has learned from working with our program participants, the less...
Feb 2, 2026 “O’Reilly pointed to OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy who has embraced Moltbook in posts on X. ‘His agent's API key, ...
Feb 3, 2026 “A fundamental point I'm trying to bring forth is that how we choose to use chatbots is not only about efficiency and...
Feb 3, 2026 NVIDIA is still good for it, just not $100 billion. So OpenAI can buy more GPUs. The circle of life.
Feb 4, 2026 From Rest of World: “The push for non-U.S. options is also about data security. Last year, Trump signed an executive ...
Feb 4, 2026 This is the purest form of self-dealing...but then again it's nice to think of Twitter being launched into space.
Feb 4, 2026 Gary Marcus: “I don’t usually give readers specific advice about specific products. But in this case, the advice is c...
Feb 6, 2026 “The new Accenture Anthropic Business Group makes Anthropic one of Accenture’s select strategic partners. Approximate...
Feb 9, 2026 “Waiting in a line to pet a purebred one seemed a little much. I am uncomfortable with the idea of breeding things. W...
Feb 11, 2026 If you want your bots to misbehave, give them KPIs. “Strikingly, we find that superior reasoning capability does not ...
Feb 11, 2026 “So the threat to SaaS businesses, Ghodsi says, is that people no longer spend their careers becoming masters of a pa...
Feb 11, 2026 “Welinder also said that OpenAI now has a better understanding of the timeline for getting its devices to market. In ...
Feb 13, 2026 “'We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attac...
Feb 13, 2026 “She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference bet...
Feb 13, 2026 “It wrote an angry hit piece disparaging my character and attempting to damage my reputation. It researched my code c...
Feb 13, 2026 “'Woke up to some idiot DJs Instagram story (who's name I'll redact because I don't care to promote him) that fully d...
Feb 14, 2026 “But there are some key differences between these Chinese bots and other AI bots. First, there's simply way more of t...
Feb 15, 2026 “Hardware giant IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according to reporting from Bloomberg. Ni...
Feb 15, 2026 “Last week, hundreds of Google workers, outraged by the federal government's mass deportation campaign and the killin...
Feb 16, 2026 “OpenAI's president and cofounder Greg Brockman doesn't consider himself political, which is surprising, because he w...
Feb 16, 2026 “Rising electricity rates have become a top election priority in the US, and local opposition to the construction of ...
Feb 16, 2026 “OpenAI has disbanded a team that was designed to communicate the company's mission to the public and to its own empl...
Feb 18, 2026 NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, so I took a swing. https://lnkd.in/eUmyAjjJ
Feb 19, 2026 "I'm a turn-based person. I want to make iterative progress towards a goal that is important to me personally. And I ...
Feb 19, 2026 We spent a podcast talking about Dario Amodei's recent essay. I'm not exactly a fan of any CEO, nor should anyone be—...
Feb 20, 2026 Interesting that Stripe now kicks off complex processes via Slack. “There are several different entry points for mini...
Feb 20, 2026 “DeFi lending protocol Moonwell said it incurred approximately $1.78 million in bad debt after a configuration error ...
Feb 20, 2026 My hunch is that product management will end up looking like what I’m doing: Building up from runtimes and large base...
Feb 20, 2026 “World Labs has raised $1 billion in new funding. We are grateful and excited to partner with our investors, includin...
Feb 20, 2026 “Axios reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is 'close' to cutting ties with Anthropic and designating it a 's...
Feb 20, 2026 “Here's the paradox: Agent2Agent (A2A) and the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) are so effective at eliminating int...
Feb 21, 2026 They're gonna vibe code the defense industry: “Code Metal, which was founded in 2023, has focused its efforts on code...
Feb 22, 2026 “It's useful to contrast these findings with external capability assessments. One of the most widely cited capability...
Feb 22, 2026 “Adthena analyzed more than 500 prompts on ChatGPT and found ads appeared in roughly 0.8% of responses. These ads wer...
Feb 22, 2026 “I think this is almost a social thing. ‘I want to be part of this. I want to see what the bot ...
Feb 23, 2026 “There is no question that generative AI has changed the landscape of the world wide web. But it is important to be c...
Feb 24, 2026 “Many libraries and cultural heritage institutions digitised their collections years ago. The OCR from that era — oft...
Feb 24, 2026 “IBM's share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post ...
Feb 25, 2026 “The now-viral X post from Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue reads, at first, like satire. She told her OpenClaw...
Feb 25, 2026 “I've seen signs of Deep Blue in most of the online communities I spend time in. I've even faced accusations from my ...
Feb 25, 2026 “We can't just ask the agent to 'make this secure.' It won't work because 'secure' is too vague for an LLM. We should...
Feb 25, 2026 “The hard truth is that improving individual agents does very little to improve overall system-level reliability once...
Feb 26, 2026 Got a good job for you or your niece/nephew who's a great communicator, good at social, wants to be AI-adjacent, and ...
Feb 26, 2026 “For these reasons, we developed the Netflix Media Foundational Model (MediaFM), our new, in-house, multimodal conten...
Feb 27, 2026 “Just think: You could get 24/7 energy from solar panels—it's always sunny in space—and the thermal stuff wouldn't be...
Feb 27, 2026 “But according to a recent research paper from Central European University and the Kiel Institute for the World Econo...
Feb 27, 2026 “Now, as AI grows more and more capable, we're figuring out what can be generated with AI and what can't. The coalesc...
Feb 27, 2026 “Everyone in the field knows LLMs are probabilistic. We all track leaderboard scores, but then quietly ignore that th...
Feb 27, 2026 “Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google, and xAI have all agreed to remove their safeguards for military use on unclassified syste...
Feb 28, 2026 “There's a certain kind of person who's becoming extinct. You've probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who act...
Mar 1, 2026 “The problem is that there are essentially no federal laws governing military AI. No statute addresses autonomous wea...
Mar 2, 2026 “There will be more software than ever, as its production is automated; we are entering the industrial age of the dig...
Mar 2, 2026 Very good to talk to Gideon Lewis-Kraus about how the people working around Claude see consciousness (per his recent ...
Mar 2, 2026 “The biggest finding: agents build, not buy. In 12 of 20 categories, Claude Code frequently builds custom solutions r...
Mar 2, 2026 Microslop: “AI trains on web data → generates slop → slop gets indexed → AI trains on slop → worse models. The intern...
Mar 3, 2026 OpenAI: “For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the ...
Mar 3, 2026 I wrote about a very interesting product that uses AI, is actually cool, and not depressing."
Mar 3, 2026 Guillaume Lethuillier: “This is, admittedly, a subjective reading, but I believe the repurposing of XML, a technology...
Mar 4, 2026 Simon Lermen: “TL;DR: We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hac...
Mar 4, 2026 TechCrunch: “The AI coding assistant Cursor has surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue, according to a Bloomberg ...
Mar 4, 2026 MIT Technology Review: “The whole reason Anthropic earned so many supporters in its fight—including some of OpenAI's ...
Mar 4, 2026 AdWeek: “The timing of the promotion is opportunistic. Last week, Claude shot to the top of app store ratings, hittin...
Mar 5, 2026 Sup nerds! Come to an event about how to keep AI from ruining NYC (but in a POSITIVE way) on the evening of March 18 ...
Mar 5, 2026 Science Daily: “The team then selected simulated chats based on real human counseling conversations. Three licensed c...
Mar 6, 2026 Zach Shapiro: “Compare 'review this contract' with 'review this services agreement from the vendor's perspective. Fla...
Mar 6, 2026 David Wallace-Wells “But this is a very fast-moving technology, and it doesn't seem likely that any meaningful A.I. l...
Mar 6, 2026 Boris Cherny on The Pragmatic Engineer: “Claude Code's 'agentic search' is really just glob and grep, and it outperfo...
Mar 6, 2026 Cara Giaimo: “The chimps went crystal cuckoo. In one yard, they repeatedly approached the monolith until the alpha fe...
Mar 6, 2026 Rachel Nuwer: “The findings back up the hypothesis that people were producing and ingesting LSD-like compounds thousa...
Mar 7, 2026 Reya Vir: “In my discussions with enterprise leaders, I see innumerable prototypes developed across teams, proving th...
Mar 8, 2026 Cory Doctorow: “This is wonderful news for creative workers. It means that our bosses must pay humans to do work if t...
Mar 8, 2026 Stripe: “One failure mode we noticed was the inability to handle ambiguous situations sensibly. For example, in our S...
Mar 9, 2026 Matt Foster @ Thoughtworks: “The Content Signals proposal adds a consent layer. Publishers can insert three signals: ...
Mar 9, 2026 Gotta ask the universe: No more AI-generated robot pictures on top of your articles. We need to move on.
Mar 9, 2026 Marginal Revolution: “The digital fly appears to behave in the digital environment in reasonably fly like ways–this i...
Mar 9, 2026 Steven Levy: “The most withering critiques disputed the report's contention that much of the economy involves non-pro...
Mar 10, 2026 Boston Consulting Group: “We found that the phenomenon described in these posts—cognitive exhaustion from intensive o...
Mar 10, 2026 Laurie Voss: “So something real is happening: startups are genuinely smaller than they used to be, even as they're ra...
Mar 10, 2026 Vagabond Research: “THIS is the failure mode. Not broken syntax or missing semicolons. The code is syntactically and ...
Mar 10, 2026 The Future University: “We evaluate five AI systems: GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and SuperInvesting, using a dat...
Mar 10, 2026 Erynn Petersen knows soooooo much about healthtech. Healthcare is 17% of the economy. So maybe it should be called te...
Mar 11, 2026 Mark Dominus: “A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes ...
Mar 11, 2026 Simon Willison: “A recurring concern I've seen regarding LLMs for programming is that they will push our technology c...
Mar 11, 2026 Mixergy: “In private conversations, I'm hearing a lot of founders describe how they're starting to sell to AI agents,...
Mar 12, 2026 MIT Tech Review: “Lobsters are indeed popping up everywhere in China right now—on and offline. In February, for insta...
Mar 12, 2026 AdWeek: “'I don't think that there is an industry in the world that is more conducive to AI than programmatic adverti...
Mar 13, 2026 PRX: “Noura Al-Jizawi thought she'd left the repression of the Assad regime behind when she left Syria with her siste...
Mar 13, 2026 Wired: “NVIDIA will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, a...
Mar 14, 2026 InfoQ: “While Opus 4.6 introduces a 1M token context window in beta, which is enough to process approximately 750,000...
Mar 16, 2026 Aaron Levie: “A subtle dynamic today that will likely end up being quite fundamental in the future is that AI agents ...
Mar 16, 2026 An interesting tell that LinkedIn commenters are increasingly bots: I mostly post quotes from what I’m reading (or at...
Mar 16, 2026 Podcast from Nature: Why scientists keep using Doom in their research https://lnkd.in/ex6HdxwF
Mar 16, 2026 Simon Willison: “The lethal trifecta is when you've got a model which has access to three things. It can access your ...
Mar 17, 2026 Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong & Asuman Ozdaglar: “This paper is an attempt to contribute to a better theoretical under...
Mar 17, 2026 LiveScience: “Experts have a mix of ideas about whether the [Indus Valley] script will ever be deciphered. Even if it...
Mar 17, 2026 TechCrunch: “'xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,' Musk said Thur...
Mar 18, 2026 Towards Data Science: “Seventeen times worse. When agents are thrown together without structured topology (what the p...
Podcast #32: Clover Newsletter—Turning over a new leaf (or four) with founders Liza Darwin and Casey Lewis