Research suggesting that human brain cells have some level of "pre-configuration" for behaviour that allows interpretation of the world around rather than starting from an entirely blank slate; news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-…

before you drag the "software engineering is over by next year" quote, consider Dario's "90% of Code will be made by AI in 3–6 Months" has rung true (for my own dev). No idea what next year looks like, but full-vibe-full-send could absolutely be the default (for better or worse)

It's a 153 page PDF but the Opus 4.5 System Card is really interesting; assets.anthropic.com/m/64823ba74853… in particular multi agent combinations seem to be giving the types of bump we used to get from thinking tokens whereas the benefit of thinking tokens seems to be waning.

Continually surprised by the range of things you sort of think LLM's won't be good at but it turns out they are; 9to5mac.com/2025/11/21/app…

I can't quite work out why there's so much effort going into trying not to believe that LLM's are good at writing high quality code? Engineering is still awesome, it's just a very different job to six months ago

Well worth reading Gate's latest letter on climate strategy in full; gatesnotes.com/home/home-page… interesting thinking on how we approach large scale problems

I've been gradually converted from "Event Sourcing is basically never the answer" to "Event sourcing MIGHT just be the answer sometimes", anyway this post is a super clear introduction to how it works; skoredin.pro/blog/golang/ev…

I can’t stop thinking about this piece of advice a friend once told me: “Don’t stay up late for something you wouldn’t wake up early for.”

AI is messing with startup economics from a lot of different angles, e.g. cost to build product, size of product it's reasonable to build, type of value added etc. Interesting piece on what it means for B2B sales; a16z.com/need-for-speed…

"How do you know the motor is running at full speed?" "You hear a gear grind sometimes" An imperfect but really useful model for thinking about how hard to push.

Cannot believe it's only been 3 years.

Great post exploring what it means to build software in an era where the primary entity writing code is an agent not a human; world.hey.com/henricus/what-…

Interesting potential revision on attachment theory, e.g. that closest childhood friends may have as much impact on attachment styles as primary caregivers; nautil.us/childhood-frie…

"best practices are just about not losing, they're not about winning" great quote from Tiffany Rolfe's web summit talk; youtube.com/watch?v=2uVoN2…

Level of determination as the single most predictive factor of startup success

Bees have a concept of time, cool! edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/sci…

Are other people seeing the San Francisco effect come back? E.g. a big competitive advantage for early stage from being in SF? a16z.com/why-local-tech…

Great piece on how the space you live in is far more than just "a space" and how living well in a space is closer to "sailing the building" than just existing scopeofwork.net/how-to-sail-a-…

Now obsessively looking for other places this phenomena might occur; restaurant occupancy by hour due to queue depth perhaps?! quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-…

Fascinating concept; that a lot of applications are structured as "inboxes" which creates the psychological effect of "needing to action everything" even though there is no practical obligation terrygodier.com/phantom-obliga…