Machines

A Mindset Shift Regarding AI Agents for Non-Technical People

Building an agentic memory system for GitHub Copilot

The AI industry risks repeating the same cultural failures that contributed to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: Quietly normalizing warning signs while …

I joined a recording of the Oxide and Friends podcast on Tuesday to talk about 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for the tech industry. This is my second appearance …

A small personal compass to turn yourself from afraid to excited.

The core of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp isn't magic. It's about 200 lines of straightforward Python. Let's build one from scratch.

Ralph Wiggum: Claude Code New Way to Run Autonomously (For Hours Without Drama) The weird name is making it even more viral, but don’t let that fool you. Ralph Loop is one of the missing pieces …

Ideas and notes

Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.

If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter Tae Kim, who is a huge NVIDIA fan and knows the company very well, so take from that what you will) that sought to get ahead of a few things that had been bubbling up in the news, a lot of which I covered in my Hater’s Guide To

Real-life stories of how AI is impacting working people's lives. Click to read Blood in the Machine, by Brian Merchant, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.

How AI and podcasts are reviving “ancient heresies” and colliding with American Christianity online

Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the heart of the Uber/Google lawsuit, is serious about his artificial intelligence religion.

A Coding Implementation on Building Self-Organizing Zettelkasten Knowledge Graphs and Sleep-Consolidation Mechanisms

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

We spent months building a sophisticated text-to-sql agent, but as it turns out, sometimes simpler is better. Giving it the ability to execute arbitrary bash commands outperformed everything we built. We call this a file system agent.

Despite agentic AI boosting content creation speed, human oversight remains critical due to concerns over hallucination, brand consistency.

Yes, this is the umpteenth article about AI and coding that you’ve seen this year. Welcome to 2025. Some people really find LLMs distasteful, and if that’s you, then I would recommend t…

Claude 4.5 Opus Soul Document. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the process of improving a brand's visibility in AI engines like ChatGPT. Learn how to get started with AEO now!

A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.

Why Long System Prompts Hurt Context Windows (and How to Fix It) System prompts, context windows, and why bloat hurts A system prompt is the instruction an LLM receives before any user messages …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often seen as a tool to automate tasks and replace humans, but new research from Swansea University challenges this view, showing that AI can also act as a creative, engaging and inspiring partner.

Code is now as cheap as salt. Meet the three developer archetypes—mixologist, producer, architect—who thrive when AI makes software nearly free.

Blaise Metreweli warns the world is ‘more dangerous and contested now than for decades’ as AI and new technologies emerge

It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace it. I realize that Large Language Models like GPT-4o — the model that powers ChatGPT and a bunch of other apps —