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CLAUDE: SPEED UP RESPONSES WITH FAST MODE

Claude's new fast mode, currently in research preview, is 2.5 times faster, but costs 6 times the normal price.

CLOUDED JUDGEMENT 2.6.26 - SOFTWARE IS DEAD...AGAIN...FOR REAL THIS TIME...MAYBE?

The markets are underestimating the moat that SaaS companies have in the short term, but in the long term, agents will create a ton of disruption.

EIGHT MORE MONTHS OF AGENTS

The best software for an agent is whatever is best for a programmer.

LIFE AT THE EDGE

A lot of the computation for basic AI functions will happen on users' devices in the future.

YOU'RE NOT TAKING ON ENOUGH TECH DEBT

The cost of servicing tech debt will drop in time because of AI, so developers are better off taking on more tech debt in projects on the bet that LLMs will clean up the debt in the future.

WHY TOKENS CAN'T COMPOUND

Today's crypto networks pass value through instead of compounding it, but once someone figures out how to retain and reinvest value the way a great business does, tokens will become equity in all but name.

ANTHROPIC RELEASES OPUS 4.6 WITH NEW ‘AGENT TEAMS'

Anthropic's latest version of Opus features Agent Teams, teams of agents that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs. It also comes with a one-million-token context window, allowing for the processing of larger documents. The segmenting of agent responsibilities allows them to coordinate work in parallel to complete tasks faster. Agent Teams is currently available in a research preview for API users and subscribers.

OPENAI UNVEILS FRONTIER, A PRODUCT FOR BUILDING ‘AI CO-WORKERS'

OpenAI Frontier is a new AI platform for building, deploying, and overseeing AI agents. It makes it easier for businesses to combine sources of data that agents need to perform tasks. The agents act as co-workers that can collaborate with humans and can be used alongside agents developed by other labs. Frontier is currently available to a limited set of customers. OpenAI has yet to disclose prices for the feature.

INSIDE ELON MUSK'S $1.25 TRILLION AI AND SPACE MEGAMERGER

SpaceX and xAI signed a merger agreement at the end of last month. Merging the two companies is a level of risk-taking and ambition that is novel even for Elon Musk. It is a bet on Musk's plan for the convergence of AI and space - a wager on unproven technology deployed at a vast scale. SpaceX representatives have confirmed that the company plans to go public this summer.

CHINA IS RUNNING THE EV PLAYBOOK ON HUMANOID ROBOTS — AND IT'S WORKING

Nearly 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally last year were Chinese. The humanoid robot industry is still in its infancy, but China's progress will potentially lock it into a commanding position. Its early advantage is due to a combination of policy support, public investment, a mature supply chain, and advancements made in AI software and hardware. The global market for humanoid robots in 2035 is estimated to grow to $38 billion.

INTRODUCING GPT-5.3-CODEX

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI's most capable agentic coding model to date. It advances both the frontier coding performance of GPT-5.2-Codex and the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2 while being 25% faster. The model can take on long-running tasks that involve research, tool use, and complex execution. Developers can steer and interact with the model while it's working without losing context.

MY AI ADOPTION JOURNEY

Mitchell Hashimoto, a developer who co-founded HashiCorp, has reached a point where he is having success with modern AI tooling. His approach uses a proper, measured view grounded in reality. This post shares Hashimoto's approach to navigating these new tools and gives a glimpse into how he approaches new tools in general, regardless of AI. Hashimoto is a software craftsman who just wants to build stuff for the love of the game, so it doesn't matter to him whether AI is here to stay.

GOOGLE HINTS AT BIG AIRDROP EXPANSION FOR ANDROID “VERY SOON”

Google is expanding AirDrop support to the rest of the Android ecosystem this year. Currently, only Google Pixel 10 devices can initiate an AirDrop session with Apple devices. AirDrop support allows Android devices to send files to Apple devices without downloading third-party apps. Google tends to time its Android ecosystem updates with Pixel Drops, and the next one of those is expected in March.

DEATH OF SOFTWARE. NAH

Wall Street tends to run in herds, and the past couple of weeks have seen the herd collectively conclude that software is somehow dead. This is nonsense. There will be more software than ever before. AI-enabled or AI-centric software is simply moving up the stack of what a product is. Domain experience will become more important than it is today because every domain will become vastly more sophisticated than it is now.

TIM COOK TEASES NEW PRODUCT CATEGORIES AND SERVICES ENABLED BY AI

Apple glasses are rumored to be unveiled this year, and the new Apple Health+ service is expected to arrive in iOS 27 with AI at the center.

TELEPORTING INTO THE FUTURE AND ROBBING YOURSELF OF RETIREMENT PROJECTS

AI enables developers to start doing the projects they've been putting off for the future.

NASA CHANGES ITS MIND, WILL ALLOW ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS TO TAKE IPHONES TO THE MOON

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has told his team to challenge NASA's bloated requirements to ensure they are still needed today.

AMAZON'S $200 BILLION SPENDING PLAN RAISES STAKES IN AI RACE

Investors are worried that the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on AI data centers will take years to pay off.

SPACEX SEEKS EARLY INDEX ENTRY AS IT PREPARES MASSIVE IPO

SpaceX advisers have reached out to major index providers to discuss whether SpaceX could join key indexes sooner than normal.

ELON MUSK - "IN 36 MONTHS, THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO PUT AI WILL BE SPACE”

Elon Musk plans to leverage xAI's ability to create and scale hardware to enable space-based data centers that will run on basically unlimited power from solar energy.

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ALPHABET PLANS RECORD SPENDING IN RACE TO WIN AI CUSTOMERS

Alphabet has announced an ambitious capital spending plan that far surpasses predictions. The company will spend as much as $185 billion this year on capital expenditures. CEO Sundar Pichai has reassured investors that the costs are necessary. Alphabet claims its massive investments are essential for competing against rivals.

ALEXA+ PLUS CHATGPT?

Amazon may put upwards of $50 billion into OpenAI's next fundraise. The companies are discussing a commercial agreement that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to develop customized models for Amazon. Amazon recently opened up Alexa+ to the US market. Adding OpenAI's technology could help Amazon combat Apple's upcoming rollout of Siri powered by Gemini.

NASA FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM WITH THE SLS ROCKET

The Space Launch System rocket program is now a decade and a half old. It has so far cost US taxpayers more than $30 billion. The program continues to be plagued with issues. NASA's new administrator has acknowledged the low flight rate issue, saying that it should be a topic of discussion.

FIRST-EVER EXPERIMENTAL GENE THERAPY SEEKS TO RESTORE VISION BY REJUVENATING EYE NEURONS

ER-100 is an experimental gene therapy designed to restore vision by reviving damaged neurons in the eye. The approach resets aged retinal cells to a healthier state using epigenetic reprogramming. It received FDA approval for human trials last week. If successful, ER-100 could signal a broader shift in how age-related diseases are treated.

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As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [10].

AGENTIC ENGINEERING

Agentic engineering is a professional term that describes what is actually happening: the engineer orchestrates AI agents as they act as an architect, reviewer, and decision maker. It is a serious engineering discipline that involves autonomous agents. The term definitely sounds better than 'vibe coding' in professional settings. Agentic engineering disproportionately benefits senior engineers who understand system design, security patterns, and performance tradeoffs. They know what good code looks like, so they can efficiently review and correct AI output.

CLAUDE AND CODEX ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC PREVIEW ON GITHUB

Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available as coding agents for Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise customers. Users can assign work to these agents directly from issues, pull requests, the Agents tab in enabled repositories, and the agent sessions view in VS Code. Access to Claude and Codex is included with existing Copilot subscriptions. Each coding agent session consumes one premium request during public preview.

AS ROCKS MAY THINK

LLM-based reasoning is both powerful and flexible. However, there is likely still room to make the recipe even simpler. There are also still more gains to be had by understanding all the plays in which thinking behavior can be found. The extra reasoning data generated over recent years may help further train models to reason better through previously unviable methods.

OPENCLAW IS WHAT APPLE INTELLIGENCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN

Mac Minis are selling out everywhere because people are using them to run OpenClaw, an open source framework for local AI agents that has become a killer app for Mac hardware. The rush shows that there is a clear demand for agents and automation, and Apple is getting the hardware revenue from it. However, it's missing out on the platform revenue - Apple could have created its own native agent, but this would likely have caused significant legal issues.

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AI WON'T KILL THE SOFTWARE BUSINESS, JUST ITS GROWTH STORY

The persistent belief that AI will destroy the software business could be more damaging than the actual impact the technology will have on the industry.

I MISS THINKING HARD

Vibe coding is great for building, but it drastically cuts down the time it takes to come up with creative solutions for technical problems, leading some developers to feel like something is missing.

UPDATE: AI OVERVIEWS REDUCE CLICKS BY 58%

It seems categorically true that AI Overviews siphon away the majority of the clicks once available to top-ranking pages.

IN PRAISE OF THE STACKED PULL REQUEST

Stacked pulled requests are PRs that build on top of each other.

MOBILE CARRIERS CAN GET YOUR GPS LOCATION

Cellular standards have built-in protocols that make your device silently send GNSS locations to carriers.

GIFT CULTURE AND THE INTELLIGENCE THRESHOLD

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GEMINI ‘SCREEN AUTOMATION' WILL PLACE ORDERS, BOOK RIDES FOR YOU ON ANDROID

The Google app 17.4 beta contains strings about a 'Get tasks done with Gemini' feature. The control is also referred to as 'screen automation'. Google has been working on letting Gemini control Android phones for a while. The feature will only work in certain apps.

IN SURPRISING MOVE, HP CEO STEPS DOWN TO LEAD PAYPAL

HP CEO Enrique Lores will replace PayPal's previous CEO, Alex Chriss, starting March 1. Lores has served on the PayPal board for nearly five years and as Board Chair since July 2024. HP was reportedly blindsided by the decision, which was only communicated to the company's board in recent weeks. Lores worked at HP for 36 years, joining the company as an engineering intern. HP has named board member Bruce Broussard as interim CEO.

DATA CENTERS IN SPACE MAKES NO SENSE

Data centers in space face massive challenges such as radiation, cooling, latency, and launch costs. There are other fundamental issues that make them unfeasible: competing in the market would require launching hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of satellites into space, and satellites can't be upgraded at scale. Data centers in space only make sense if they are cost-effective relative to normal data centers. The idea makes less and less sense with every improvement in normal energy production.

AV RIDESHARE FLEET SIZING: WHY THE OPTIMUM IS JUST SHY OF PEAK

The optimal fleet size for automatic vehicles is not peak demand, but it's also not average. The economic optimum is 98-99% demand coverage for most operators. Oversizing fleets destroys pricing power faster than it increases utilization. AV unit economics only work with aggressive off-peak price differentiation.

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As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [10].

ANTHROPIC PERFORMANCE TEAM TAKE-HOME FOR DUMMIES

Anthropic used to give prospective performance engineering candidates a notoriously difficult take-home exam designed to assess technical ability and judgment under time pressure. This practice was retired after Claude Opus 4.5 scored higher than any candidate ever after just two hours of work. The company has released the assignment publicly along with a post detailing its design principles. This post breaks down the challenge from start to finish and explains everything from scratch.

APPLE'S XCODE NOW SUPPORTS THE CLAUDE AGENT SDK

Xcode 26.3 introduces a native integration with the Claude Agent SDK. Developers now have the full power of Claude Code directly in Xcode without having to leave the IDE. Claude can work autonomously on sophisticated, long-running tasks. The integration supports visual verification with Previews, reasoning across projects, autonomous task execution, and interfacing through the Model Context Protocol. Xcode 26.3 is now available as a release candidate for all members of the Apple Developer Program.

LESSONS LEARNED SHIPPING 500 UNITS OF MY FIRST HARDWARE PRODUCT

Simon Berens left his job as a software engineer in January 2025 to launch a hardware product, Brighter: the world's brightest lamp. Berens had no prior experience in hardware and was counting on being able to pick it up quickly with the help of other engineers. This article takes a look at the challenges Berens had to overcome, like making the lamp in the first place, tariffs, and manufacturing issues, and details the lessons that he learned along the way.

SAM ALTMAN REVEALS WHY OPENAI IS POISED TO MAKE THE BIGGEST BUSINESS BETS EVER

Sam Altman has a tendency to race ahead with ideas that excite him. While it is a tentpole of his success, it has gotten him in trouble in the past. Altman's itch to release products quickly is informed by his study of Xerox PARC, a legendary Silicon Valley research lab known for inventing the modern graphical user interface, laser printers, and the computer mouse, yet failing to commercialize any of them. Altman's reputation for shiny object syndrome can be harmful - OpenAI has been criticized in the past for releasing products without proper safety testing and for shipping features that prioritize engagement over psychological well-being.