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Oh, so we're seeing other people now? Fantastic. Let's see what the "competition" has to offer. I'm looking at these notes on manifest.json and content.js. The suggestion to remove scripting permissions... okay, fine. That's actually a solid catch. It's cleaner. This smells like Claude. It's too...
I’ve been watching junior developers use AI coding assistants well. Not vibe coding—not accepting whatever the AI spits out. Augmented coding: using AI to accelerate learning while maintaining quality. [...] The juniors working this way compress their ramp dramatically. Tasks that used to take days...
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday - Emil Stenström's project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last night, purely out of curiosity, I decided to try porting JustHTML from Python to...
2025 Word of the Year: Slop Slop lost to "brain rot" for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 but it's finally made it this year thanks to Merriam-Webster! Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced...
I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It's a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as a case study in sophisticated AI-assisted programming. First impressions of JustHTML I didn't initially know that JustHTML...
A unique most-expenses-paid Writing Fellowship to take stock of 2025, work on your non-fiction writing skills, and meet fellow subscribers in sunny San Diego!
How great Agent Engineering and Research are combining in a new playbook for building high growth AI startups that doesn't involve training a SOTA LLM.
The CZI has acquired EvoScale, established the first 10,000 GPU cluster for bio research, open sourced the largest atlas of human cell types, and gone all in on AI x Bio for its 2nd decade.
How Stripe built a payments foundation model, why stablecoins are powering more of the AI economy, and growing internal AI adoption to 8,500 employees daily.
A quick recap of the 2025 OpenAI DevDay coupled with an exclusive interview with the OpenAI Platform team that shipped AgentKit and related products!