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A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise.

The bitter truth about people preaching taste with AI.

The PCES is a markdown repo of files that can be used to understand and impose context engineering discipline in various settings from LLM chat to complex agentic solutions. - PFunnell/portable-con...

The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases. - humanlayer/humanlayer

What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers? - humanlayer/12-factor-agents

Summary * Large language models (henceforth, LLMs) are sometimes said to be "just" shallow pattern matchers, "just" massive look-up tables or "just"…

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Learn about configuring Claude Code through Amazon Bedrock, including setup, IAM configuration, and troubleshooting.

Learn about configuring Claude Code through Microsoft Foundry, including setup, configuration, and troubleshooting.

From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

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

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