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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.
U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as “pig butchering." In January
The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time
After the Graz, Austria February 2025 WG14 Meeting, I am now confident in the final status of the defer TS, and it is now time.
Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era | Andreessen Horowitz
Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat AI agents as a new foundation for how software gets built.
Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity
Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, gra…
Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.
Manual Work is a Bug: A.B.A: always be automating
Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right, the team learns from eac
AI safety is not a model property
Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
pThe Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. What is it and how can we avoid it?/p
o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data
In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer
Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment
Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.
Why performance optimization is hard work
I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on m
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog
A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.
Best practices for third-party data acquisition: powering AI context - Stack Overflow
This post explores crucial lessons learned in the trenches of data licensing, drawing insights from Stack Overflow and the growing importance of socially responsible data practices in a changing internet landscape.
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.
In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The
Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Stack Overflow
If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?
Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Stack Overflow
Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes?
Reasoning models don't always say what they think \\ Anthropic
Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kin
English Is Not Normal
No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
OAuth's Role in MCP Security
Limits and Opportunities in the Identity Layer
TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days | DigiCert
The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.