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GitLab laid off 14% of its workforce and branded it the 'agentic era': agents now handle review, approvals, and handoffs, so fewer humans sit in those loops. It did this while beating earnings, revenue up 23%. I've argued AI is usually a scapegoat for cuts companies already wanted. GitLab is the case that complicates it - either the first honest agentic layoff, or the most fluent AI-washing yet. Read more ›
Lettera started as Panda, the editor behind Bear 2. Today it becomes its own app. Check out the feature list and be the first to try beta! Read more ›
2026 has been getting much better! Mostly from a mental health perspective. I've come to truly believe that it's not the circumstances but how you react to them that matters. In that sense, what I'm saying is: "things" aren't going better, they weren't that bad to begin with. I'm mentoring someone in Google Summer of Code ! I've done it twice before, both times for Kiwix . It's going well so far, my student is really easy going and fun to work with. I really have truly embraced vibe coding , ... Read more ›
A single-user ATProto PDS that runs on a Cloudflare Worker - ascorbic/cirrus Read more ›
Everyone answers questions over their data with vector search. But some questions aren't 'what's similar' — they're 'what's connected,' and vectors fall off a cliff. I measured vector search, graph traversal, and a hybrid of the two on 1,800 multi-hop movie questions, then settled the Postgres-vs-Neo4j question with real numbers: Postgres wins neighborhood reachability by ~4x, Neo4j wins shortest-path by ~85-135x. The honest answer is to match the engine to the traversal. Read more ›
Back of the queue for West End Live. It’s gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it! Read more ›
The Simple Version When you type a prompt into an AI product, your text gets wrapped in additional instructions, reformatted, and sometimes filtered before the model ever processes it. What the model reads is often substantially different from what you wrote. There Is a Layer You Are Not Seeing Most people who use AI tools think of the interaction as direct: you write something, the model reads it, the model responds. That mental model is wrong in a useful way. Every production AI application... Read more ›
The sea does not argue with confidence; it reads the hull and answers in physics. Read more ›
When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigationOver the past few months, a strange story has been seeping into the mainstream media from the more excitable corners of Substack and YouTube. Its claim: scientists whose work related to aerospace and nuclear research are either dying or going missing. According to a... Read more ›
The future of AI and jobs will be so much weirder than you think. Read more ›
A travelogue made exclusively for residents of Bengaluru. Tourists, stay away. Read more ›
In 2025, I became fixated with zines. It led me to open my once abandoned Instagram account to follow zinesters, attend zine festivals and zine workshops. I ... Read more ›
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How does gdotv compare against JanusGraph Visualizer? Follow along with this deep-dive as we explore the various features of each framework. The post first appeared on . Read more ›
It’s been a year since I retired — my was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value. 🌴 * * * My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire. A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding new rooms. Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 co... Read more ›
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China. Read more ›
I’ve been working since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used , as well as a number of other Qwen variants like across like raw llama.cpp with llama-cpp-python Ollama llamafiles and LM Studio Where are local models now? Early on, models were slow, hard to use, and just not that accurate for most programming tasks. The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the re... Read more ›
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words and definitions. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere. Read more ›
OverviewA long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to mo… Read more ›