Today
- I decided not to do #NaNoWriMo this year. Part of that is because I’ve never done it. Never even attempted it. Don’t even want to. Writing a novel is a life goal of mine, but cramming it all into one month isn’t for me. November is impossibly busy. But I do think it would be...
- Yesterday, a group of MIT researchers released an article titled “Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights”. The piece describes a set of experiments which convincingly show OpenAI’s latest Astra model is able to understand and...
- Yesterday’s hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper found …
- An irritating thing about database vendors is that they all claim their offering is "highly available". If pressed they'll say they're talking about their SLA, and while this is not technically lying, it is very misleading, because people who know some distributed systems lore...
- Two hacked Furby Connects by my front door bickered at trick-or-treaters all night: an evil pink one with demon eyes and a sweet blue one, cued by a Bluetooth board hidden under the candy bowl....
- Audience capture is the part that scares me the most about writing on the internet. I have the soul of an engineer: when I see a metric like engagement, I want…
- A recent paper argues that frontier LLMs can work with neural network weights directly. This seems superhuman, but it isn’t. The paper shows that GPT-6 Astra…
Yesterday
- I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in …
- Instead of triggering tools one at a time across turns, agents are collapsing their tool catalog into a single exec(code) tool—chaining, filtering, and awaiting actions inside an isolated sandbox....
- Powerful AI is unpredictable. Your robotic butler may suddenly decide to kill you for no comprehensible reason, in the same way that Bing’s helpful chat AI…
- 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. November 1, 2026 It’s been a long time since I purchased anything from a Crowd Supply campaign, but I open their email newsletters eagerly and...
- Epilogue You’re still here? Wow. Cool. After all this, I’m hoping that users notice nothing other than quicker app start times. I’m looking forward to keeping an eye on traffic and retention in the coming weeks. Wish me luck!...
This week
- To get a good reputation in tech companies, you need to work on important projects. However, you need a good reputation first in order to get assigned important…
- I spent every spare moment of the past month working on my side project. I can’t wait to share more about it with you. Every time I think I’m close to a release, I find more work to do. It feels exhausting at this point, but I’m still not losing passion for the thing I’m...
- In the previous post we looked at a simple multithreaded task executor that behaves roughly like its Python standard library counterpart. The biggest missing feature was being able to return values from run tasks via future objects. In a fully dynamic language like Python this...
- A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?...
- Elegance and intelligence can have a surprisingly negative correlation. Intelligent people sometimes produce inelegant solutions because they’re capable of…
- Surprises break trust faster than setbacks. If something would surprise someone when they find out later, tell them now. Don't wait until it's convenient or until you have a fix....
- It’s time to celebrate a little win. The other day, my mom contacted me saying her 10-year-old iPhone wouldn’t turn on. After getting a hold of the device and doing some family IT support, I concluded the battery was dead. So I bought her a new (old) one on Walmart (SE 3rd gen.,...
- TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people who usually try new ways of...
- Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read on atrophies, sometimes...
- A PostgreSQL column can be restricted to a predefined set of values using an enumerated type (enum)....
- One of the most important skills in working with AI is agency: being willing to try new and ambitious things. This is true for what you build, but it’s also…
- I’ve written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents—the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents …
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