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I use AI agents to code, but I’m not a “vibe coder”
Simon Willison: Coding agents require skilled operators
Without the skilled individual, the “agent” is useless. It may as well not exist.
This is such a great observation. There’s a negative connotation to “vibe coding” out there today and while I think how I developed my apps could be be described as “vibe coding,” I
My review of the Meta Ray-Bans
Let’s see what all the hype is about.
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Apple is already shipping a Mac with touch, they just call it "iPad"
Craig Grannell writing for Wired: Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good
For years, Apple treated the idea of windows on the iPad as sacrilege. But with iPadOS 26 installed, today’s iPads are doing macOS cosplay, becoming touchscreen Macs in all but name. And here’s the thing: It’s actually
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The cost to run LLM-powered apps is getting out of hand
Ethan Ding: Tokens Are Getting More Expensive
every ai company knows usage-based pricing would save them. they also know it would kill them. while you're being responsible with $0.01/1k tokens, your vc-funded competitor offers unlimited for $20/month.
i keep seeing founders point to the "models will be
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iOS 26's new ringtone is an absolute banger
They went hard on this one.
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A couple videos about bad science
As luck would have it, I watched two videos today about how exceptionally widely listened to people got scientific facts very wrong. Here's Hank Green explaining a lot of good info about how vaccines work and how RFK's recent statements about a "universal vaccine" are adjacent to how things
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Don't learn the wrong lesson
Theo is an interesting guy who's found himself as a bit of an AI YouTuber over the last year (used to talk about JavaScript stuff), and he was invited by OpenAI to test GPT-5 ahead of its announcement last week. Long story short:
1. He loved it
2. Many people hated it
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I paid $35 for this study about "AI" to understand what the hell it meant
This study published yesterday by The Lancet is getting linked to all over the place with one takeaway: AI makes you dumb because as The Verge's headline says, "Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI". The response is clear, right? Using ChatGPT and other LLMs makes you
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"Musk failed to provide evidence to support his claim"
Joe Rossignol on MacRumors: Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over App Store Rankings
"Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action," Musk said in a
Tim Cook "had" to do this
I was listening to this week’s Upgrade and the topic of Tim Cook’s gifting of a trophy to Donald Trump came up. The short version is that both Myke and Jason believe that Cook didn’t personally enjoy this, they both think he “debased” himself by doing it, and that he really didn’
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Digital Foundry has gone indie
Just over one year after IGN acquired Digital Foundry, the team has gone indie for the first time since their debut in 2007. I'm so happy for the team as I really appreciate what they do for the industry that I love so much. Check out their YouTube channel if you want to
More Birchtree, less money
Hello! I've been running More Birchtree for a year and a half now, it's been pretty
Apple
"No" part 2
Yesterday I wrote about how macOS and iPadOS apps are really merging into one unified experience. That was a quick post, but I wanted to hit on this again with some specific examples. The message was basically that while Apple hasn't technically "merged" the operating system, they have merged the experience
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"These people do it naturally"
I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to other times in our history, and I came across this quote from a politician in the lead up to the Civil War discussing the virtues of black people and how they're fundamentally different
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"No"
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:
"Are you merging iOS and macOS?" "…No! Of course not"
Yet seven years later it is incredibly clear that there is a point of convergence coming in the very near future where iPadOS and macOS look effectively identical and run basically the same apps — and at
