The Daily Index — Tuesday, June 10, 2025 · TLDR Index

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qawolf.com

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LLMS ARE CHEAP

Generative AI is relatively cheap, especially when compared to search APIs. While inference was very expensive at the start of the AI boom, it has since gotten a lot cheaper. The real cost problem will be from the backend services that AI agents will want to access.

snellman.net · 16 min

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ONE MAN ARMIES

This post contains a list of one-person (or mostly one-person) projects. The list includes Stardew Valley, Linux, the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and jQuery. Each entry names the project's creator. The list shows how incredible things can be made by a single person. If you care enough about your ideas, they might be worth trying.

quarter--mile.com · 4 min

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THE CODE REVIEW FRUSTRATION

Treating vibe code as precious is a productivity killer.

monadical.com · 7 min

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A BIT MORE ON TWITTER/X'S NEW ENCRYPTED MESSAGING

From a cryptographic perspective, XChat, X's new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, isn't great - there's no forward secrecy and user private keys are stored at X.

blog.cryptographyengineering.com · 24 min

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THE SIGNALFIRE STATE OF TALENT REPORT - 2025

Tech's talent gap has widened - entry-level hiring is collapsing and geographic power centers are evolving fast.

signalfire.com · 17 min

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AI'S METRICS QUESTION

Measuring AI use is difficult because the term 'AI' can refer to many different things.

ben-evans.com · 5 min

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SILICON VALLEY'S QUEST TO REMOVE FRICTION FROM OUR LIVES

Silicon Valley's real sin is that it is removing long-existing frictions too hard and fast, causing hidden costs to pop up faster than society can patch them.

strangeloopcanon.com · 20 min