Search the archive

HOW META USED AI TO MAP TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE IN LARGE-SCALE DATA PIPELINES

Meta's AI agents weren't making useful edits quickly enough when pointed at one of the company's large-scale data processing pipelines. The company fixed this by building a pre-compute engine consisting of a swarm of over 50 specialized AI agents that systematically read every file to produce context files that encode the tribal knowledge that previously lived only in engineers' heads. As a result, its AI agents now have structured navigation guides for 100% of the company's code modules. The system works with most leading models because the knowledge layer is model-agnostic.

CONFESSIONS OF A MILLENNIAL IN TECH

Millennials may be the last generation that builds their careers around software as a medium. They drove the digital transformation, but unfortunately, they are the sandwich generation that has to explain software to their parents and AI to their kids. It is unknown what will happen to the people whose edge was being good at creating software when software started getting built, configured, and operated by AI. However, it is clear that the advantage is shifting.

SOCIAL MEDIA HAS BECOME A FREAK SHOW

Today's social media ecosystem is particularly unhealthy. It is small and continuing to get smaller. When there's a lack of competition in an isolated environment, strange things start to happen. All sorts of things that might not be survivable in a more competitive environment can actually become fitness advantages in these scenarios.

A CRYPTOGRAPHY ENGINEER'S PERSPECTIVE ON QUANTUM COMPUTING TIMELINES

Current predictions about quantum computing timelines could turn out to be wrong, but the risk that they could be right is unacceptable, and people need to start acting now.

AMAZON AND US POSTAL SERVICE REACH DELIVERY DEAL

GOOGLE AI EDGE GALLERY

Google AI Edge Gallery is Google's official app for running Gemma 4 models directly on an iPhone.

FULLY REMOTE)

TLDR's Applied AI team is tasked with making every process at TLDR legible to code, runnable by anyone, and composable into larger workflows. Join a small, fast moving team using the latest AI tools with an unlimited token budget. Learn more [24].

AGENTIC CODING AND MICROSERVICES

AI enables developers to work more monolithically.

WHAT NEXT FOR THE COMPUTE CRUNCH?

The next 18 to 24 months are going to be defined by compute shortages.

TEARDOWN OF UNRELEASED LG ROLLABLE SHOWS WHY ROLLABLE PHONES AREN'T A THING

The internal complexity of the Rollable made it extremely expensive to manufacture, and durability was a big concern.

Ship seat-limited plans today at clerk.com/billing

AN INSIDE LOOK AT OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC'S FINANCES AHEAD OF THEIR IPOS

OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward potentially record-breaking IPOs by the end of the year. OpenAI expects to burn $85 billion in 2028. Anthropic doesn't expect to spend nearly as much, but its forecasts tell a similar story of mounting computing costs. There are no signs that the AI arms race is slowing down, with both companies releasing new versions of their models at a faster cadence than ever before. This article contains charts drawn from confidential financial documents that both companies shared with investors, offering a window into the economics of the two largest AI labs in the world.

APPLE APPROVES DRIVERS THAT LET AMD AND NVIDIA EGPUS RUN ON MAC — SOFTWARE DESIGNED FOR AI, THOUGH, AND NOT BUILT FOR GAMING

Apple has signed drivers for Nvidia eGPUs. Users can now pair their eGPUs with Macs for AI LLM processing without having to use workarounds like disabling System Integrity Protection. High-end Apple computers have become popular for use with AI agents like OpenClaw. The demand has been so high that delivery times for Macs with massive amounts of memory have increased to up to six weeks.

IMPULSE SPACE, ANDURIL BUILDING SPACE TECHNOLOGY FOR GOLDEN DOME

Impulse Space and Anduril Industries have been selected to develop space-based missile interceptor technology for President Trump's planned Golden Dome missile defense shield. Space-based interceptors are a key but unproven component of the Golden Dome effort. The Golden Dome will protect the US and possibly other countries with layers of defense systems from ground to space. The project is expected to cost $185 billion and demonstrate operational capability by 2028.

SCIENTISTS BUILD LIVING ROBOTS WITH NERVOUS SYSTEMS

Neurobots are clusters of living cells that, when cultured in simple saline conditions, spontaneously self-organize in such a manner that they move and act in novel ways. They're made with natural cells, arranged manually by scientists. Neurobots can move and respond to their surroundings. Scientists are still figuring out the organizing principles that enable these movements. Once they understand how they work, the researchers can then focus on engineering them for various uses, such as monitoring ecosystem health.

more actual attendees. See how TLDR compares to Meta.

EIGHT YEARS OF WANTING, THREE MONTHS OF BUILDING WITH AI

Despite how important SQLite is to the industry, no one seems to have invested in building a really good developer experience for it. syntaqlite is a set of high-fidelity devtools for SQLite developed over around 250 hours of effort over three months by a developer using an AI coding agent. This post systematically breaks down the developer's experience in building syntaqlite with AI, covering both where AI helped and where it was detrimental.

HOW CLAUDE CODE BUILDS A SYSTEM PROMPT

System prompts are often the best manual for how an app is intended to work. The accidental leak of Claude Code's source code reveals how Claude Code assembles a context and shows how complex context engineering can be, and the importance of harnesses. This post contains a table that shows how Claude Code assembles a system prompt. Some components are always included, while others are conditional, and components may have variations.

CHINA'S TECH GIANTS ARE RECRUITING HIGH SCHOOLERS

Chinese tech companies are increasingly seeking out high schoolers to fulfill research and internship roles due to insufficient talent in universities. Creativity is increasingly valued for roles such as product managers, and it is believed that younger candidates may be more likely to imagine things that do not yet exist. Globally, some tech leaders are questioning whether universities are still the best way to train talent. Tech companies recruit many people without bachelor's degrees who just figure things out on their own.

ECONOMISTS ONCE DISMISSED THE AI JOB THREAT, BUT NOT ANYMORE

Many economists don't see much evidence that AI is disrupting the job market, but they are starting to take seriously the possibility that it could happen someday soon. AI is expected to grow the economy as the technology improves, but its effect on jobs and the economy is difficult to predict. Given the potential scale of disruption, economists say it is time to start considering policies to help workers who may be displaced or otherwise harmed by the changing economy. The conversations need to happen now, as a lot will change in the next two to five years.

engineer and make $200K-$950K, then apply now.

NON-DETERMINISM ISN'T A BUG. IT'S TUESDAY: WHY PRODUCT MANAGERS WERE BUILT FOR AI (THEY JUST DON'T KNOW IT YET)

The gap between 'using AI' and 'getting real value from AI' is fundamentally a product problem.

OPENAI COO SHIFTS OUT OF ROLE, AGI CEO TAKING MEDICAL LEAVE

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO, will now lead special projects and report directly to CEO Sam Altman.

GITHUB ACTIVITY IS SURGING

GitHub is on pace for 14 billion commits in a year, if growth remains linear.

ELON MUSK INSISTS BANKS WORKING ON SPACEX IPO MUST BUY GROK SUBSCRIPTIONS

Musk also asked that the banks advertise on X, but he was less adamant about that request.

1 IN 30 – ARTEMIS, GREATNESS, AND RISK.

NASA's 'loss of crew' threshold for Artemis missions is calculated to be 1 in 30.

WHY DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LLMS WON'T EXIST: AN INTUITION

The big AI model providers would have made domain-specific models if there was any feasibility in it.

Try Wispr Flow Free [4] | Download Flow

Try Flow Free [4] | Download Flow

sent with zero edits. 4x faster than typing. Try free.

OPENAI BUYS TECH-INDUSTRY TALK SHOW TBPN

OpenAI has acquired TBPN, an online talk show with by-the-minute analysis of technology news and executive interviews. The show averages around 70,000 viewers per episode across various platforms. It has become popular among Silicon Valley power players, who view it as more supportive of the tech industry than traditional news outlets. The show generated around $5 million in revenue from advertising last year and was on track to make more than $30 million in revenue in 2026.

GEMMA 4: BYTE FOR BYTE, THE MOST CAPABLE OPEN MODELS

Google DeepMind has released four new vision-capable Apache 2.0-licensed reasoning models sized at 2B, 4B, and 31B, plus a 26B-A4B Mixture-of-Experts. The models are multi-modal beyond just images and can process video at variable resolutions. The two smaller models feature native audio input for speech recognition and understanding. API access to the two larger models is available through Google's AI Studio.

ARTEMIS II, NASA'S BOLDEST MISSION IN GENERATIONS, LAUNCHES CREW TO THE MOON

Three Americans and one Canadian launched into orbit on the Space Launch System rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday. The Artemis II mission is testing the transportation system NASA plans to use to get astronauts to the Moon and then return crews home at the end of their mission. If the mission is successful, the astronauts will go further than anyone has ever traveled in space. They will see parts of the far side of the Moon never before seen with human eyes. The crew is scheduled to return on April 10.

SANCTUARY AI'S ROBOTIC HAND DEMONSTRATES ZERO-SHOT IN-HAND MANIPULATION

Sanctuary AI recently released a video showing the company's hydraulic hand autonomously manipulating a lettered cube, achieving target orientation 10 consecutive times without dropping the cube. The manipulation took place entirely at the fingertips without the support of the palm. The demonstration showcases a successful instance of zero-shot transfer. The video is available in the article.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM MY CONVERSATION ABOUT AGENTIC ENGINEERING ON LENNY'S PODCAST

Simon Willison is an independent software developer, blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders. Willison made the leap from traditional software engineering to AI-native development more fully and visibly than almost anyone, documenting everything he learned in real time on his blog. This article features highlights from a recent interview with Willison, where he shares why November 2025 was an inflection point for AI coding agents, how he writes 95% of his code from his phone now, why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are most at risk right now, and more. A video of the full 1 hour and 40 minute-long interview is available.

MEET THE NEW CURSOR

Cursor 3 brings clarity to the work that agents produce, pulling users up to a higher level of abstraction. It is faster, cleaner, and more powerful. The new interface is inherently multi-workspace, so users can work with agents across different repositories. The company plans to continue making interface changes as more powerful coding models unlock new interaction patterns.

HOW AI HELPED ONE MAN (AND HIS BROTHER) BUILD A $1.8 BILLION COMPANY

Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, took two months and around $20,000 to build. Its founder, Matthew Gallagher, used AI tools to write the code that powers the company, produce website copy, generate media for ads, handle customer service, and analyze business performance. He outsourced the other stuff he couldn't do himself and hired one employee, his younger brother. The startup is on track to do $1.8 billion in sales this year.

BAD ANALOGIES

Amazon's success has done a great deal of harm to a lot of companies. Jeff Bezos is a generational entrepreneur who came from a hedge fund. He made a very calculated decision to lose money in the short term to make more in the long term. He took every detail into consideration to make his plan work. Amazon is a bad example of why it is okay to burn loads of cash during growth. The strategy doesn't always work out, especially if it is not executed correctly.

DEVELOPER RELATIONS AFTER THE CHEAT CODE MACHINE

Devrel has to be legible, not just to humans, but to the machines working alongside them.

THE 2ND PHASE OF AGENTIC DEVELOPMENT

People will start using agents to attack old problems with modern tooling, resulting in new versions of software tools that people rely on but don't like.

AI CODING AGENTS, DECONSTRUCTED

This post details how to create a coding agent that adapts perfectly to custom workflows by clearly separating concerns.

HOW MICROSOFT VAPORIZED A TRILLION DOLLARS

Microsoft lost its largest customer, OpenAI, and the trust of the US government, in one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century.

WHY WE'RE RETHINKING CACHE FOR THE AI ERA

We need better cache policies and architectures to address the impact of AI bot traffic on cloud infrastructure, which is only going to continue to grow.