Super essay on Ai-led development at a startup with honest reflections on exhaustion, processes, design, etc. Code writing is clearly assembly-line work now? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-software-engineering-is-changing/

Sharp post from Manu Joseph. We, the rich/the privileged/the oligarchs treat the poor like caricatures, taking away their humanity https://manujoseph.substack.com/p/let-the-poor-have-fun

Windows/Pavan Davuluri is putting the crisis from the Macbook Neo to full use. The PC market is getting gutted due to unrelated factors (component prices) but MSFT will lose the PC market if they don't react strongly to the Neo

Context: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/11/03/raising-the-bar-for-8-gb-windows-11-pcs-whats-improved-and-how-to-get-it/

Just hit number 1 on my company AI leaderboard by saying "Thank you" to Claude after every chat

Google is so back, their models are periodically improving

Thank you Aston Villa ☺️🤗

Given all the internet security insanity going on, might be best take everything and everyone offline. Free mental health boost too.

Charts showing oil prices should reverse the colour convention. Price going up should be red!

Ben Thompson, gurl, go get that bag 💅

PSA: "Third world" was originally coined to mean something like "Non-aligned" First world = Capitalist bloc Second world = Communist bloc Third world = Everyone else Its evolution into a pejorative is a relatively recent phenomenon

Got all excited to make my first agentic payment (Hermes with a dedicated agent card from Robinhood) aaaaand it's blocked :/

Today's Stratechery post places undue confidence in Meta not distilling other models. Meta's approach has generally been mercenary, Anna's Archive incident being the latest example. I'd be surprised if they weren't distilling.

Honestly need Indian exam concepts like "step marking" (do x differently) and "extra marks for good handwriting" (legibility/articulation quality) as affordances for guiding agents

Apple laptops are getting touchscreens 🍎 fanboys gonna go from "laptops don't need touch!" to "OMG iTouchy IS SO GOOD!!"

Wore a light jacket because its warm day in SF and the office AC is turned down to Siberian permafrost for some reason 🥶

ChatGPT dots are only on the $100 Pro plans and above (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Activating a card, the bank prints domain A in large letters on the card for activating. Land there and it immediately redirects to another domain B. WHY? You're making it harder for customers to know if they're in the right place! Self-phishing.

Used to fix my typos but now I'm leaving them in because it show I didn't just sloppypaste something

The Citroën 2CV concept looks so gorgeous! Even the logo is well designed!

Might be one of only three human beings who know the shortcut to the OS level emoji picker on both Mac and Windows.

The new Alfa Romeo Cuorerosso looks like a Mazda MX-5 Miata :D

Clubs most impacted by Man Cheaty? Tottenham and Hull, per a BBC analysis https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cmq5nljx7972o?utm_source=livescore&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=foryou

Passkeys are fine, and of course better than passwords; but OS/Browser level implementations were built for lock-in and don't work elegantly across platforms, confusing everyone.

Homelab projects with agents have done more for my computer science education than my undergraduate degree. I've even exited vim thrice!