The Daily Index — Monday, October 13, 2025 · TLDR Index

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qawolf.com

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VIBING A NON-TRIVIAL GHOSTTY FEATURE

Ghotty's unobtrusive update notification feature was largely developed with AI. This post shares the agentic coding sessions that led to shipping the feature. It provides context about the process and reasoning. AI is best used as an assistant and not a replacement. While AI can do a lot of the work, developers will almost always still need to intervene at times.

mitchellh.com · 20 min

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PEEKING INSIDE GIGANTIC ZIPS WITH ONLY KILOBYTES

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ritiksahni.com · 4 min

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WHAT IF SPORTSCENTER AND LINKEDIN MERGED?

TBPN (Technology Business Programming Network) is a show where Jordi Hays and John Coogan chat about the worlds of tech and business. The show became a sensation practically overnight after its first episode aired last October. Executives from OpenAI, Palantir, and Andreessen Horowitz appear regularly on the show. The show's audience is relatively small, but it considers CNBC and Fox Business to be its competitors. Its fans include Larry Ellison, Mark Cuban, and Travis Kalanick.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 16 min

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SELF ACTUALIZATION

When Andrew Bosworth started Meta's Bootcamp program in 2008, he didn't teach the culture as it was: he taught it as he wished it were. New engineers didn't know the difference. The company grew fast, and within a year, more than half of the engineering team had learned about the culture from him. When onboarding in a high-growth organization, you aren't just teaching people how things work, you're deciding what kind of company they believe they've joined.

boz.com · 2 min

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PREDICTION: THE SUCCESSOR TO POSTMODERNISM

Prediction markets are perfectly suited for the zeitgeist right now.

a16z.substack.com · 23 min

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SUPERPOWERS: HOW I'M USING CODING AGENTS IN OCTOBER 2025

Anthropic's new plugin system for Claude Code gives the agent new skills it can use to complete tasks.

blog.fsck.com · 13 min

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SORA: CLIPPING TO CLONING

Sora enables everyone to become a potential creator of your content.

hiddencap.com · 8 min

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996 JUST MEANS YOU HAVE NO LEVERAGE

The reason why some people have to work 12 hours a day is because their ideas aren't good enough to survive on eight.

joanwestenberg.com · 5 min

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EVERYTHING IS TELEVISION

The capacity for solitude, sustained attention, and meaning that penetrates inward is being lost as people increasingly consider short-form video as the definition of American success.

derekthompson.org · 15 min

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WHY IT TOOK 4 YEARS TO GET A LOCK FILES SPECIFICATION

There have been over 1,800 posts on the subject of Python lock files since 2019.

snarky.ca · 7 min