Today
- July 12, 2026 On Saturday, beneath a sparkling blue sky, I joined the march to Stop the AI Race. We gathered in front of OpenAI’s office in Mission Bay, then marched through the city to Anthropic’s HQ beside the Transbay Transit Center. Stop the AI Race If this had been a...
- Jul 11, 2026 A dock that finally wakes up reliably For a long time, my top hardware frustration was to deal with a docked laptop that wouldn't wake up. It was sporadic but the scenario would be as follows. Arrive at my desk where the laptop is docked and asleep. Press keys on...
- There are, I think two reactions to the title of this post. One is to scoff at how short a time 24 hours really is; something barely worth mentioning. But another, perhaps less voiced reaction is to think "wow, I can't remember when I last did that..." When I last did this it...
Yesterday
- Go's concurrency is one of the main reasons people like the language. You write go f(), send values through channels, and the runtime scheduler runs thousands of goroutines on just a few OS threads. It feels effortless.None of that machinery exists in C. Which made me wonder:...
- Over the past two years, I've published interactive tours for five Go releases, from 1.22 to 1.26.I know some of you have read them, and I've received a lot of kind words from you (even some core Go team members reached out) — thank you so much for that!Tour history: Go 1.22 •...
- “You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I...
- As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase? My guess is that people who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams (say, Redis or games like The Witness) would say “obviously you have to understand it completely, otherwise you can’t do good...
This week
- It’s our job to build the software factory - not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately. We set up the infrastructure that makes agents successful. We act proactively through prompts (skills,...
- OpenAI’s latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output …
- Jul 10, 2026 Don't you mean extinct? In 1993, Jurassic Park came out and revolutionized the use of CGI in films[1]. To the public the experience was magic. But for some of the people in the movie industry, it was a rude awakening. Director Steven Spielberg had hired stop-motion...
- The market is in a weird place right now, a lot of companies are making record profits, but at the same time every other company seems to think bankruptcy is around the corner. Both of these camps seem to use the same general strategy: cut costs and maximize profits. What mainly...
- Your agents can now react to real-time events using a custom signal provider. Connect to any external source — GitHub, Slack, CI pipelines, or your own APIs and......
- You can now run your agents and workflows on schedules. Configure them using cron syntax and a default prompt for agents or inputData for workflows — letting yo......
- Power users generate 10x as many lines of code vs the median, most of the AI spend is coming from input tokens not output ones, and almost half of AI changes are accepted without manual review by devs (!!)...
- “We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes sense. Who better to make the very definition of a great Mac app than the people who...
- Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local models for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…...
- Before we begin, I want to say I don't care that much if you disagree with me. There's no sound precise mathematical definition of Object Oriented, no ISO standard, and no grand arbiter who decides what is and what is not OO (although I believe Casey Muratori may have applied...
- This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant …
- Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…...
- Every post I publish represents at least two things I’ve learned: the thing that prompted me to write the post, and the thing I learned in the course of writing it. If I don’t learn anything new while I’m writing, it’s not interesting enough to publish.
- 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. July 6, 2026 The design and vibe over at Worm Blossom feels very fresh and productive: this is neither the bland web of the 2020s, nor is it...
- July 6, 2026 I don’t generally feel compelled to enthuse about AI models, even when I like them, because there is so much enthusiasm out there already, and it feels like remarking, in 1977, “Wow, that movie Star Wars was really thrilling and technically impressive, wasn’t...
- AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn’t have one. If the AI layer gets good at anything, it will be anything that has an answer key. School used to be answer keys all the way down. School is the ultimate anchoring of success, because...
- The reason I write more Go than JavaScript nowadays is not because there is anything wrong with the language, but because I’m tired of the ecosystem. The language on its own is really good, it is the first programming language that I became productive with and I’m still...
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