The Daily Index — Wednesday, March 11, 2026 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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WHY I BELIEVE IN SOTA MODELS OVER CUSTOM ONES

The smarter and more experienced a human is, the better job they will do. Even small tasks benefit from the general life experience of the person doing the execution. This is why SOTA models will always be better than small, specialized models. The best models keep coming down in price, so enterprises will likely just use general models in the long term instead of tuning less capable models.

danielmiessler.com · 1 min

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WHY THE ATM DIDN'T KILL BANK TELLER JOBS, BUT THE IPHONE DID

ATMs were predicted to increase bank teller unemployment, but they didn't. However, the number of bank tellers started to fall after the birth of the iPhone. When a technology automates what a human does within an existing paradigm, it rarely gets rid of the human, as the definition of the paradigm creates the need for human involvement. The iPhone created a new paradigm that made the tasks that the ATM substituted irrelevant.

davidoks.blog · 25 min

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ANTHROPIC TELLS JUDGE BILLIONS AT STAKE IF US SHUNS AI TOOL

Anthropic could lose billions of dollars in revenue this year due to the Department of War's declaration of the company as a supply-chain risk. It has asked a judge to take quick action on its request to block the decision. The declaration has led to more than 100 enterprise customers contacting Anthropic to express doubt about continuing their relationship. A hearing on Anthropic's request had been set for April 3, but the judge moved it up to March 24.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 3 min

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AI SHOULD HELP US PRODUCE BETTER CODE

Quality enhancements that used to be time-consuming have now dropped in cost to the point where there's no excuse not to invest in quality while shipping new features.

simonwillison.net · 3 min

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AMAZON CONVENES ‘DEEP DIVE' INTERNAL MEETING TO ADDRESS OUTAGES

An Amazon spokesperson says that a single incident was related to AI, and none of the incidents involved AI-written code.

cnbc.com · 4 min

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FROM EXPERIMENTAL TOOL TO AI INFRASTRUCTURE: ADAM ZIELIŃSKI'S VISION FOR WORDPRESS PLAYGROUND IN 2026

Zieliński's goal for 2026 is to make Playground useful and easily accessible for a large crowd out there that's not super technical.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 8 min

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A UNIX MANIFESTO FOR THE AGE OF AI

The Unix philosophy has survived because its authors built restraint into the architecture.

linuxtoaster.com · 4 min

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I BUILT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE USING CLAUDE CODE

Cutlet is a dynamic programming language built entirely by Claude Code that combines the expressiveness of Python, Ruby, Lua, and JavaScript with first-class support for running subprocesses, building pipelines, and scripting.

ankursethi.com · 26 min