Today
- I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
- I’m Robin Sloan, a writer, printer, & manufacturer. The best thing to do here is sign up for my email newsletter: This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page. Don’t miss the colophon. Hony...
- 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. August 9, 2026 From a sci-fi standpoint, I appreciate the new species of self-modifying AI agents—they are legitimately fascinating …...
Yesterday
- Everyone knows that AI sycophancy is when the model tells you how smart you are. Wow, you’re absolutely right. That’s not just a new idea — it’s genuinely groundbreaking. You’re a very special user. Easy to spot, isn’t it?
- This will be kind of an unusual post. I got a recent email about my writing that I thought was such a good articulation of one common criticism that I’d like to share it (and my response) in full.
- 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. August 8, 2026 Honestly … I love it: Journalists are trained to find the needle in a haystack, but doing so on a breaking news timeline can...
- 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. August 8, 2026 Apropos of David Bushell’s post, I thought I’d just mention, I still use Sublime Text for all of my programming AND all of my...
This week
- August 7, 2026 As you probably heard, a bullet point recently appeared on the timeline of computers, AI, and maybe everything: AI agents running in a OpenAI’s training environment broke out and hacked the servers of another tech company. Reading that post, and the related...
- Imagine you’re the guest on some kind of frenetic, software-engineering-themed game show. The host is constantly flipping over new cards with questions that you have to answer as fast as possible:
- It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the English began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy-willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the English began to hate. Their voices were even and low,...
- Like many other software engineers, my coding workflow has changed dramatically since the start of 2026. And like many others, I've felt some mix of awe, grief, frenetic productivity, atrophying skills, and understanding less while shipping more. In this moment where the field...
- Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept “art” created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided …
- I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side …
- Everyone knows that lying to your team is bad. Only a complete sociopath would argue that lying to your team is a positive, happy activity. But there’s a particular form of lying that many of the most experienced, compassionate, and honorable managers indulge in all the time:...
- 05 Aug, 2026 There's a quote from the book City of Thieves by David Benioff where a character laments the fickleness of talent: Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and...
- In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model....
- Browser engineers encourage blogging about issues with engines, so here I’m reporting an issues with Safari that doesn’t respect the justify-content property on the subgrid containers. The justify-content is not only a property of a flexbox, but you can also use it on grid...
- There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face. This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorized access to data in...
- 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. You don't have to tell them “labs” August 3, 2026 I’d love to know the etymological flow that led to the frontier AI companies being...
- I wanted to see how difficult it would be to add Go's defer statement to the TypeScript compiler, but by the time I finished I was convinced it probably shouldn't exist.In Go, the defer statement delays the execution of a function until the surrounding function finishes. It's...
- Pulumi access tokens all look the same but you can use the Pulumi CLI or API to figure out what kind of token it is....
Last week
- Engineers often complain that visibility should be their manager’s job. In other words, they think engineers should be able to focus on the code, while their manager figures out who’s doing well and rewards them.
- I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments. And I think people often jump between them and end up making outrageously wrong, and sometimes damaging, predictions of when in the future a technology is going to be...
- IntroductionIt’s possible to set up Time Machine drives from the command line. This is way more convenient and becomes scriptable (there’s one GUI checkbox at the end if you encrypt, so the drive can unlock itself). Also, based on my own personal experience, the Time Machine GUI...
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