Is the craft dead? (www.hanselman.com) (via).
I like Scott's take here. It's not dead. Never was. Just changed.
OpenClaw Acquired by OpenAI (xcancel.com) (via).
Welp, that was fast.
From Sam Altman:
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
OpenClaw (openclaw.ai).
This has been the new hotness on the socials. But it's kinda just really good packaging for a local proxy to foundation models. Not saying it's nothing. Still might try it out. But I'm busy, yo.
The Adolescence of Technology (www.darioamodei.com).
Dario's (founder of Anthropic) essays are required reading.
teleporting into the future and robbing yourself of retirement projects (ghuntley.com).
oooo, boy going through this right now.
Code like a surgeon (www.geoffreylitt.com) (via).
As a newcomer to a long-existing codebase recently, AI provides a lot of productivity gains.
You can choose how you use AI.
Choose wisely.
We had a breakthrough in AI with transformers.
Where’s our breakthrough in AI with alignment?
Started reading "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2015 - 2025" by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavein Leech.
Dense with citations and definitions. Taking my time here. 😮💨
From 6/5/17 in one of my notebooks I wrote down this quote from Andreesen Horowitz - AI Playbook:
AI is the new relational database, about to get into every important piece of software we write.
This seems to have mostly come true in 2025.
Context Engineering (simonwillison.net) (via).
I like this definition better. As we learn more about how to manage our words passed to LLMs, I think the nouns we use should change along with it.
Wanted to share a fun little project I built this morning for my 9-year-old daughter: an interactive, retro-styled spelling game that she absolutely loves!🎮 The "8-bit Spelling Game" is a fun educational tool where players hear words through text-to-speech and type them out letter by letter, with cute dolphin animations...
Raycast Now Has an iOS App (www.raycast.com) (via).
My most-used, most-recommended app, just went mobile with an iOS app.
It started as a shortcut for everything, but now with all the LLM models, is my go-to for quickly asking AI questions throughout my day.
Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI (addyo.substack.com) (via).
I think Addy has the right take here.
You can avoid it and fall behind.
But if you go too deep down the rabbit-hole of letting AI write your code, you're asking for problems. Most importantly: skill atrophy.