Today
- Apple held its iPhone event on Wednesday, and the hardware announcements were exactly as rumoured. As usual, the surprises were in the software. I’d been planning for months to replace my first-generation Ultra, and was excited to see what new features the new Ultra might have....
Yesterday
- A URL is a technical thing: a hostname, a path, a port, an origin, some query parameters, etc. But a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection. All from a simple idea: here’s a thing that points to another thing, off you go! We’ve...
This week
- Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are making large savings on their AI bills by dropping proprietary models and using smart model routing....
- A recent resignation tweet from an Anthropic researcher has everyone talking about the AI apocalypse again. Among other things, he said: The people building AI…
- 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...
- Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find two cables that I needed for something. They've been in the bottom for 10+ years....
- A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…...
- Just over a year ago I wrote Why we should anthropomorphize LLMs. Now it’s a hot topic again, driven by Dwarkesh Patel’s description of OpenAI’s recent swarm…
- In just the last couple days I've seen a lot of people complaining about the same category of problems: I expect many of you can relate to this pain. In fact, I tested it: Most of you have more than one agent you're using weekly The fact is that while these agents continue to...
- I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while since it was in my feed. I decided to chart previous episode dates to check some of my assumptions about release frequency. Cutting to the chase, here’s a link to The Talk Show...
- Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation is needed at all. more…...
- Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them:. This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not because these were the hardest...
- Marcin Wichary has a lovely article titled “Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2”. If you’re into the minutiae of interface design, this is a good ‘un. It perfectly illustrates how impossible it is to try and compare two interfaces side by side as static images. What matters...
- Automated AI text detection is currently an underserved niche. The only game in town is Pangram, which does an excellent job but desperately needs more…
- The Open and Async audiobook is out. It's read by a synthetic narrator who says 'jif,' correctly. For the hard-G crowd who insist that's heresy, I re-recorded an entire chapter in their (wrong) pronunciation and posted it free. One chapter the wrong way, or eleven and a half...
- A couple notes on Claude’s Fable 5.1 system prompt. As I’ve written, looking at changes over time reveals product design decisions and more. lists_and_bullets Old Diff New ### lists_and_bullets Claude avoids over-formatting with bold emphasis, headers, lists, and bullet points,...
- 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. September 6, 2026 It’s striking to see a consensus form in the AI industry, even at its heights, around the need for a research slowdown and...
- 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. September 4, 2026 What a thrill: I’ll be in conversation with Jack Clark in SF on September 14, on subjects including but not limited to:...
- I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles—at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn’t …
Last week
- Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by …
- A lot of people think that good leadership requires radical responsibility. Conscious Leadership defines it like this: Taking full responsibility for one’s…
- The other day a serious vulnerability was disclosed in one of the newer Linux distributions (the one led by the racist, so it isn't getting a mention here). The issue was interesting because it was caused by a non-standard Docker configuration that their installer applied by...
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