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Thursday, March 12, 2026
Simon Willison

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service

Simon Willison highlights a satirical website called MALUS that parodies the controversial practice of using AI to recreate open source code to avoid license obligations. The satire is so realistic...

Simon Willison

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

A comprehensive New York Times Magazine investigation into how AI is transforming software development, featuring interviews with over 70 developers from major tech companies. The piece explores how...

Simon Willison

Quoting Les Orchard: AI is Revealing a Hidden Divide Among Developers

AI-assisted coding is exposing a fundamental divide among developers that was always present but previously invisible. AI has created a fork in the road that reveals whether developers are motivated...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

60% Of Your Job Isn't Your Job — Here's The Math, And Why The Other 40% Is The Whole Point

Knowledge workers currently spend 60% of their time on coordination tasks like meetings and documentation, but AI is revealing that these coordination layers exist only because execution requires...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

4,000 People Lost Their Jobs At Block. Dorsey Blamed AI. Here's What Actually Happened.

This video analyzes what's actually happening when companies blame AI for layoffs, using Block's 4,000-person layoff as a case study. The core insight is that AI isn't just automating tasks—it's...

Wes Roth

Joscha Bach "Bootstrapping a GODLIKE Mind"

Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explores the nature of machine consciousness and intelligence through a philosophical and scientific lens. He argues that consciousness is simply a model of what it...

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
anthropics/claude-code

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.73

This release of Claude Code v2.1.73 brings important stability improvements and eliminates several major freezing issues that were disrupting developer workflows. The update also adds enhanced model...

The Pragmatic Engineer

From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge

Steve Yegge, a veteran software engineer with 40 years of experience at companies like Amazon and Google, discusses his eight-level framework for AI adoption in software development and argues that...

Simon Willison

Quoting John Carmack

This is a brief quote from legendary game developer John Carmack about software architecture. Architecting for future requirements rarely turns out to be beneficial, a principle that challenges...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

4 AI Labs Built the Same System Without Talking to Each Other (And Nobody's Discussing Why)

Four major AI labs independently developed the same multi-agent coordination systems without collaborating, revealing that AI's perceived "jaggedness" (being great at some tasks, terrible at others)...