The Daily Index — Monday, September 29, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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qawolf.com

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SMALL DATA

Small Data is a movement away from Big Data toward much simpler and cheaper solutions. It is being driven by improvements in hardware and organizations that don't use that much data. Distributed systems are more overkill than ever. Developers should be considering what technologies they know well, are good enough, and are the least toilsome for the task at hand. Modern hardware will likely handle the workload just fine.

topicpartition.io · 5 min

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FAILING TO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL, AGAIN

Many people look at the current state of AI, see the mistakes it makes, and then somehow jump to the conclusion that AI will never be able to do tasks at a human level. A few years ago, our current AI models were just science fiction. AI is improving at an exponential rate. It will be surprising if these improvements suddenly stop. Even a relatively conservative extrapolation of the trends suggests that by the end of 2027, models will frequently outperform experts on many tasks.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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OPEN SOCIAL

Open source has clearly won, but this wasn't a foregone conclusion 35 years ago. There were many powerful forces that wanted open source to lose. We are now at a similar juncture with social apps. Projects like Bluesky's AT Protocol are changing the relationship between the user, the developer, and the project. What open source did for code, open social does for data.

overreacted.io · 27 min

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ACCENTURE PLANS ON ‘EXITING' STAFF WHO CAN'T BE RESKILLED ON AI AMID RESTRUCTURING STRATEGY

Accenture's main strategy is upskilling, and it will exit people so it can get more of the skills it needs.

cnbc.com · 3 min

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AMAZON'S AWS CEO CHIDES STAFF FOR SLOW PRODUCT ROLLOUTS

Amazon has been grappling with a reputation for slipping behind rivals in developing AI products.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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CALLED IT: THE ANTI-ADOBE COALITION IS HERE

Figma proved design doesn't need Illustrator, Descript proved editing doesn't need Premiere, and Omarchy and Framework proved developers don't need macOS.

zakelfassi.com · 8 min

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U.S. MILITARY IS STRUGGLING TO DEPLOY AI WEAPONS

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links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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AVALANCHE STUDIOS NYC RETROSPECTIVE – AN AMBITIOUS COMPANY RUINED BY BAD DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES

Avalanche Studios was born out of ambition, but it failed to deliver on that ambition and closed a year ago.

probablydance.com · 73 min