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UX tips and recommendations for ISVs building generative AI applications
How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models
I work on Claude. It's an interesting experience: Every day I learn about yet another feat accomplished with or by Claude that I hadn't considered, didn't think possible, or simply lacked the curiosity and time to try. This month, it may have helped discover a new planet, I've seen the first AI music video that I really like, and we are discussing a new era of math. Model capabilities don't grow uniformly. Models are, as Terence Tao puts it, "astounding in some directions, while inadequate in o
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The theme-park operator, like so many other companies, is abandoning America’s middle class.
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Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
Occlution Grotesque - Bjørn Karmann
Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins
For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.
So you want to make a bot | Josh Larson
Agentic orchestration and key ingredients for building a consumer bot in 2026
Amelia Wattenberger
AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.
A software engineer's tasks - before and after AI - Henry Armburg Jennings
I liked how an Anthropic article modelled a job as a bundle of tasks rather than a single thing that either survives or does not. I did that exercise on my own week as a software engineer - before AI, now, and some guesses at what the future may hold.
A Staff Engineer’s Guide to Inventing Work
A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms
