Today
- Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and there is nothing left to check. For software engineers the line between the two moves under your feet most days, and most of us...
Yesterday
- In the early 1960s, Fred Brooks managed the development of IBM's System/360 computer systems. After it was done he penned his thoughts in the book The Mythical Man-Month which became one of the most influential books on software development after its publication in 1975. Reading...
- Over the last couple of months Rahul Garg published a series of posts here on how to reduce the friction in AI-assisted programming. To make it easier to put these ideas into practice he’s now built an open-source framework to operationalize these patterns. AI coding assistants...
- SaaS freemium fails for AI. With high GPU costs, pricing must be a dynamic product surface. Learn to gate intensity, outcomes, and compute instead of features. The post Pricing is a product surface appeared first on Arnon Shimoni....
- Subagents solve context pollution, but how the main agent manages them matters more than whether they run in sync or async. Four orchestration patterns, from a simple tool call to an autonomous agent team, each with different requirements for model capability and result...
- Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, instead of telling you how I’m doing, I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing these past...
- What should we do when code is cheap? Lately, this blog has featured a lot of writing about agentic coding. Frontier models are really good at coding these days, much better than they are at other tasks. Coding with agents feels like a preview of the future, a playground for...
This week
- I started working on the new Array data type for Redis in the first days of January. The PR landed the repository only now, so this code was cooked for four months. I worked at the implementation kinda part time (kinda because many weeks were actually full time, sometimes to...
- I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I’ve tweaked a few things from that original post but the underlying idea is still the same, which I would describe as: Avoid...
- I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are available in Chrome and Edge behind an experimental flag. I know, I know. I know. AI in the browser reeks of a product manager...
- AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skills encodes those senior-engineer behaviors as workflows the agent has to follow, with anti-rationalization built in....
- A fictional scenario about what AI changes for cloud security, written because the technical version of the argument doesn't land with anyone except engineers....
- To continue our journey into quantum error correction, it is time to dive deeper into the theoretical foundations of the field. When learning about the surface code, you might have wondered: what exactly makes it work? Would it work as well on lattices other than the square...
- The most influential piece of writing about staff engineers in the last decade has to be Will Larson’s Staff engineer archetypes. He argues that the “staff engineer” title covers at least four very different roles: the team lead, the architect, the solver, and the right hand....
- 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. May 2, 2026 Anybody from Anthropic out there reading? Here is a tiny feature request for the cool new Claude Managed Agents: currently...
- Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn’t interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community members to apply for a free subscription, so I filled it out...
- Hi friends, In April, Scour scoured 778,059 posts from 25,790 feeds. This month, my focus was on ranking improvements and adding a number of new features: 🔃 Ranking Improvements Scour is designed to find hidden gems that interest you, while trying to avoid using popularity...
- It’s time to be right. Outcomes continue to matter. Earlier this week, I spoke at AI Dev 26. This is what I spoke about there. I’ve been making money, in some form, building software for nearly 30 years. The last five months have been the most exciting of that entire time. I’m...
- 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. April 30, 2026 I am not an LLM superuser — in the sense that I am not locked in all day, marshaling My Dutiful Minions; I have no minions...
- In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization....
- What a month! GitHub went down six million times, eleven thousand Vercel security holes have been unveiled, Copilot doesn’t accept new signups due to a super unsustainable business model (finally someone admitted it), Anthropic landed on top of Hacker News billions of times due...
- “If it compiles, it works.” This feeling is one of the main things Rust engineers love most about Rust, and a reason why using it with coding agents is especially nice. After debugging some code that compiled but mysteriously stopped in production, I realized that it’s useful to...
- I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I’ve been working towards for quite …
- The Gemini Deep Research Agent autonomously plans, searches, and synthesizes long-horizon research tasks into detailed, cited reports....
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