Yesterday
- 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...
- 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...
- I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is just as hard as it was to get to 90%. And from 99% to 99.9% is just as hard again. This stood out, as I’ve been experiencing more...
- An in-depth report by Reuters details how Meta’s leadership decided to slash team sizes by 60%. Zuckerberg changed his mind, and now the company is stuck with low morale and culture turned mercenary....
- TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible. My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
- The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good thing sitting in my garden, but not while driving my car....
This week
- Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps—sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and …
- Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard coordination system inside the git repository. more…...
- TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by Moderne. It was one of the more interesting panels I’ve done,...
- LLMs receive sequences of token IDs instead of raw text. For example, the GPT-2 tokenizer encodes what's the weather in goldshire? into [10919, 338, 262, 6193, 287, 3869, 10932, 30].While it's a small part of the overall latency of a modern LLM call, tokenization does sit on the...
- “Workslop” is when your colleagues or bosses communicate with you by pasting big chunks of AI-generated text. The core problem with workslop is that the effort…
- Speaking of things we know individually, but let slide collectively, here’s Jeremy Keith talking about how we all used Flash: Remember when almost every website had a Flash intro? Everyone knew they were annoying and uneccessary, but everyone else was doing it. And here’s John...
- Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 “sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks”. Their announcement spends a notable …
- Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing. That page points out that: Humans are...
- 01 Sep, 2026 Hi friends, In August, Scour scoured 878,974 articles from 28,519 feeds. Also, 219 users signed up since my last product update email at the end of June so welcome to you all! If you've been enjoying Scour and would be willing to put a quote on the testimonials...
- The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what’s going on...
- Frontier coding agents can compose shell workflows that replace entire catalogs of file tools. Here is what changes when Bash becomes the primary execution interface....
- Making and breaking grids I’ve been doing more front-end coding this year than I have in a while and every time I come back to write markup and CSS, it feels like there are new tricks. We’re closing in on the 30th anniversary of CSS (already a little past 30 years since Håkon...
- Five commands to install OpenClaw 2.0, connect Gemini 3.7 Flash, and start chatting with Google Search grounding in your terminal and web dashboard....
- It was a good month for me. Very productive, slower than usual. When the rest of the world races, folks go faster, produce more than ever with all these modern tools, I find more joy in doing precisely the opposite. My friend inspired me to re-watch a decades-old conference talk...
- Models are designed, not born. Over the last few weeks I’ve been increasingly annoyed by the media coverage of the OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face and other similar incidents. Articles recounting the event maximize the agency of the models while minimizing, if...
- Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests Netflix provide some feedback buttons to indicate the kinds of experiences we all share consuming and rating media: “Just...
- OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
- Some time ago I visited a used book fair and came across this awesome piece of 80s scifi-asthetic. This book is a collection of short stories by the Polish author Stanisław Lem originally published in 1964. Its English title is The Cyberiad. One story, about Trurl's electronic...
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