The Daily Index — Monday, December 22, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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antigravity.tech

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DESIGN IS MORE THAN CODE

Design is about finding the right problem, the right intent, and the right vision. The features you design and build today should be considered a step toward that vision. Without the right context and goal, you could be iterating toward a direction that wasn't chosen intentionally. The industry is not very patient, but that doesn't mean you should devalue the why behind your designs in favor of output.

linear.app · 9 min

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ELLISON'S HARDBALL WARNER BROS. TACTICS GAVE NETFLIX AN OPENING

Lawyers for David Ellison sent a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery on the night of December 3 expressing serious concerns about the fairness and adequacy of the company's sale process. This surprised Warner Bros., as the company believed it had run a fair process. Ellison's inner circle tried to retract the statement, claiming some partners didn't even know the letter was going out, but it was too late. In response, Warner Bros. decided to sell to Netflix.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 14 min

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GRAPHITE GETS BOUGHT BY CURSOR: THREE REFLECTIONS FROM SIX YEARS OF WORK

Software quality startup Graphite has been acquired by code generation startup Cursor. Graphite started out as Screenplay, which couldn't find product-market fit right away. The conversations around Graphite started right before the pandemic lockdowns. The team started working in person together as soon as it was advisable, allowing them to knit a culture early and build trust. The three founders took three distinct roles, and they all remain vital to the company.

hunterwalk.com · 9 min

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GOOGLE WAS AT RISK OF LOSING ITS DOMINANCE — UNTIL IT PROMOTED THIS AI EXECUTIVE

Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, was tasked with growing Gemini while also keeping his existing job running Google Labs.

cnbc.com · 14 min

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WERNER VOGELS IS RIGHT

It's important to take the time to learn new technologies, the capabilities of those technologies, and where they can help your business, rather than just shoehorning in new technologies everywhere you can.

tsak.dev · 4 min

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REFLECTIONS ON AI AT THE END OF 2025

Almost everybody has stopped saying that large language models are stochastic parrots.

antirez.com · 4 min

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MORE ON WHETHER USEFUL QUANTUM COMPUTING IS “IMMINENT”

Scalable quantum computing is now plausibly imminent.

scottaaronson.blog · 6 min

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NETFLIX AND DISNEY+ PROBABLY ONLY ADDED AD-TIER SUBSCRIBERS THIS YEAR, SAYS MORGAN STANLEY

The ad tiers scored all net additional subscribers for both Netflix and Disney+ this year.

sherwood.news · 5 min

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2025 LLM YEAR IN REVIEW

2025 was a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs.

karpathy.bearblog.dev · 11 min