1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1143+ words) For the last few years, visual AI has mostly been judged by its pixels. The better the final image or video looked, the better the model seemed. The most interesting visual AI tools today have stopped trying to generate the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (705+ words) The question I keep getting from founders and prospective employees: is there any AI application layer left to build, or are Open AI and Anthropic going to kill everything? Listen I'm as much of an AI maximalist as almost anyone,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (187+ words) It is very clear that the practice of software engineering is being upended by AI. A large, growing portion of all new code is now written by AI agents. AI models are also becoming indispensable for understanding large codebases, fixing…...

2+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (820+ words) This week, someone hijacked one of the most popular packages on the internet and used it to install a backdoor on every machine that ran npm install. The package was Axios, which is the HTTP library that powers network requests…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (460+ words) Last year, I wroteabout how You Tube is a pretty great herald of what we can expect to happen to coding. You Tube launching in 2005 didn't seem to fill an obvious content gap, and yet two decades later it's a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1154+ words) There's a new aspiration in startup pitch decks: We're basically Palantir, but for X." Founders talk about embedding forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) with customers, building deeply customized workflows, and operating more like a special-forces unit than a traditional software company. Job postings…...