https://mariozechner.at/recommended-reading/ Articles and videos I recommended on socials. https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2086189428012093655 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:34:53 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2085540776512192512 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2086006259795263824 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:27:03 GMT recommended reading. similar observations on my end, albeit at much smaller scale. https://x.com/i/article/2085457619372691456 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2085485450832273579 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:57:32 GMT recommended reading. i would also warmly recommend getting into electronics, do some soldering, some PCB design. you can teach yourself in 6 months, don't need a lot of gear. feels great slapping together a bunch of resistors, caps and ICs onto a PCB and have it work first time e.g. this was the result of 6 months of self study. still in use daily. truely my proudest achievement. i have also to repair electronics toys like tiptois and toni boxes from kids around the neighbourhood. roughly saved parents €1000 in repurchase expenses. you can also build very shitty robots that make kods want to learn how to build shitty robots. or just build fun little toys for the hood rats so they can annoy neighbours during halloween. it is really really enjoyable to build electronic gadgets from start to finish, including the little software you need. don't buy off the shelf doodads you can merely program. challenge yourself. you're an engineer. nothing wrong with getting started with a waveshare gadget you just plug in and have the agent program it. but i guarantee you'll find more fulfillment getting your hands and brain dirty instead of asking your agent to program a thing for a prebuilt usb connected device. cc @steve https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2085377067273576912 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:46:51 GMT recommended reading. especially if you think a permission dialog is a great security model for agents. (they are not, which is why pi doesn't have that security theater built in) https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/08/xibalba64-making-of https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2085329597978018069 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:38:14 GMT recommended reading. fun to see @phoboslab is still doing neat stuff. https://x.com/i/article/2084638847887941632 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2084929164839121265 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:07:03 GMT recommended reading! https://ampcode.com/notes/what-i-want-to-tell-you-about-orbs https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2084653876796412326 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:53:09 GMT recommended reading. https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2084421546395705756 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:29:57 GMT recommended reading (as a bookmark). i honestly don't know what to think. https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2084399057095594414 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:00:36 GMT recommended reading https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2084017646958206982 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:45:00 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2083631047120748544 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2084008689044759022 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:09:25 GMT recommended reading. if we get "stuck" with improvements in verifiable domains only (which makes sense from a data point of view), i'm already a very happy camper, as that includes a lot of STEM. https://www.seangoedecke.com/in-defense-of-not-understanding-your-codebase/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2083331296869187994 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:17:42 GMT recommended reading. much more nuanced than the title makes it out to be. read till the end. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-four-horsemen-of-the-ai-bubble https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2083305171577110677 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:33:53 GMT recommended reading https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2083040900876218368/vid/avc1/3840x2160/Wq0Az01WT6Rols58.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2083208734612856997 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:10:41 GMT recommended viewing. https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2082844396714704995 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:02:56 GMT recommended reading. i agree with this message. internalize it. https://x.com/i/article/2082133743893204992 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2082557699217051705 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:03:42 GMT recommended reading, if you don't follow dex you're ngmi. also, please stop posting useful stuff. haven't written a blog post in ages and this makes me feel bad. https://x.com/i/article/2082158799104659456 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2082501727895351742 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:21:17 GMT recommended reading. being in the business of shipping software for artists, it's a pretty good analogy. it's also why i think the "generate single digital artifact based on millions of examples" (music, images, videos) and "coding agent trained on all the intermediary traces up https://learnvector.ai/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2082405164523159816 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:57:35 GMT recommended reading. truely love @AndrewYNg 's vision for a 21st century learning path. this is what wr need for diffusing the benefits of the tech into the economy. https://x.com/i/article/2082137754788646912 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2082167925964705879 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:14:53 GMT recommended reading. very cool. should be even easier once the new harness hits. https://x.com/i/article/2081948601752715264 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2081977990146077157 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:40:08 GMT recommended reading. https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2081872850865000722 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:42:21 GMT recommended reading. (which does not imply agreement or disagreement on my part) https://x.com/i/article/2081753730534506496 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2081816656012009645 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:59:03 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2080408648560578560 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2081145352690815121 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:31:32 GMT recommended reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=QUqfRvmbAPDK0h-5&v=kOD9rMhn4f4&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2081007558253244692 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:23:59 GMT recommended viewing by @juliarturc on full duplex voice AI. https://modem.dev/blog/how-coding-agents-read-your-code https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080707195885195455 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:30:27 GMT recommended reading https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080525946235367771 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:30:14 GMT recommended reading by @dexhorthy @0xblacklight @humanlayer_dev still true, even with sol/fable class models. and the reason this is still true is that we have apparently not yet found a way to teach models how to write maintainable software. whoever can create datasets/RL for that wins. let them loose, and you will end up with slop neither you agent swarm nor you can keep running in https://x.com/i/article/2080310373140594688 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080328665045270599 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:26:19 GMT recommended reading. https://earendil.com/posts/prompt-caching/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080253579105837338 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:27:57 GMT recommended reading. strongly so. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2080114573697314816/vid/avc1/1920x1080/5Kquf3F1RdyKVgN3.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080182752230428807 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:46:30 GMT recommended viewing also because @dillon_mulroy shows us why and how he uses @pidotdev turns out @dillon_mulroy and i have the exact same workflow. except i use my comment extension to annotate the last agent message, and my diff reviewer for code annotations feeding back into the agent, instead of plannator. the only thing i need to steal is his call stack trick. @dillon_mulroy biggest leverage is type driven development for the exact reason he outlines: even the sota models still suck massively at system design and will add abstractions and adapters everywhere. that makes it harder for human and agent to keep things in check. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2080114573697314816/vid/avc1/1920x1080/5Kquf3F1RdyKVgN3.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080176213474078831 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:20:31 GMT recommended viewing. https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2080023852646592903 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:15:06 GMT recommended reading. i basically memorized beej's guide to berkley sockets as a young fellow. and while his essay has no definite conclusion,mi can very much relate emotionally. i think the act of writing code isn't just a mechanical thing happening on auto-pilot after lots of thinking, it was part of the thinking process itself. i do miss it and struggle to find a replacement for it. just these past few days i had design calls with my earendil peeps. and i constantly find myself starting a screen share, typing out some pseudo code and navigating the code base to better illustrate what i mean, while the act of typing that code gives me signal on whether what i i think it's needed for intuition, which has always been a big part of designing a thing for me. with agents writing the code, this intuition is harder to elicit. https://adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/no-we-cant-harden-nodejs-against-prototype/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2079830443545809135 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:26:33 GMT recommended reading. https://sunilpai.dev/posts/one-document-two-hands/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2079484712003760310 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:32:44 GMT recommended reading. http://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2079450200251249025 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:15:36 GMT recommended reading. https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2079269572671111581 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:17:51 GMT recommended reading. new swarms stuff from cursor. https://davidgasquez.com/reliable-unreliability https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2078833720203808922 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:25:56 GMT recommended reading. in a few systems i built over the past 2 years i ended up with this flow for a given task: - start with full inference for all steps, observe behaviour, judge correctness - find inference steps that can be replaced with deterministic steps eventually, most as a programmer, i always tried to automate myself away. turns out, agents can also (help) automate themselves away. also much cheaper. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2077538877909405696/vid/avc1/1920x1080/5KpV9vZr8eeh4TFL.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2077838093231481269 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:29:40 GMT recommended viewing. https://x.com/i/article/2077829753680334848 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2077837933894160841 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:29:02 GMT recommended reading. simple is good, simple is beautiful. simple works. https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2077692101664329961 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:49:33 GMT recommended reading by Laura Summers who appears to be not on this hellsite because she's a smart human. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/icml-2026-annotated-slides/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2077427179848143019 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:16:51 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2076946210397552640 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2077050761242939720 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:21:05 GMT recommended reading. https://antirez.com/news/169 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076638077322252593 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:01:14 GMT recommended reading. don't despair. learn and adapt. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2076595754844516352/vid/avc1/1920x1080/jv3V86zYl6C7_W-p.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076627033988215112 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:17:21 GMT recommended viewing. listen to me sound stupid on the internet again. also starring: my knees. https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/prompting https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076606446637056342 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:55:33 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2076319195718090753 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076604098829263068 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:46:13 GMT recommended reading. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076371022882721906 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:20:03 GMT recommended reading. > Evans’s analysis suggests that AI is largely automating the most tractable parts of science rather than expanding its frontiers. quick anecdote. about a year ago i taught my linguist wife how to use a coding agent as a personal programmer. those two evenings took away the drudgery of transforming huge excel sheets and creating charts. what would have taken her weeks to a few evenings. i'm bullish that https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076367981802573954 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:07:58 GMT recommended reading. terry tao vibe coding. https://x.com/i/article/2076072720559972352 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076286234909938060 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:43:08 GMT recommended reading. good advise for now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=gzXuwQURagijzp8O&v=GQwTPH67YqY&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076028299034108268 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:38:11 GMT recommended viewing. i love all of bitluni's projects. https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2076002933015982416 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:57:24 GMT recommended reading. don't get turned off by the title. this is how i use LLMs too for many tasks. that said, when used as an exploratory tool, don't trust their explanations. that ibckudes fable and sol. really... https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2075149416692920320/vid/avc1/1280x720/wN_9Tmxo3lBxGIRI.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2075329079931212197 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:19:45 GMT recommended viewing, tho the "just dropped" is a bit misleading. this is from april. still an excellent talk. @mattpocockuk is a true educator and i admire how he brings structure to this mess we are in. https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2074987703339258238 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:43:14 GMT recommended reading. fantastic stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=ejZTRy8t85FIbSGQ&v=9fubhllmsBU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2074594824590680111 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:42:04 GMT recommended viewing https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=ejZTRy8t85FIbSGQ&v=9fubhllmsBU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2074200101036122135 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:33:35 GMT recommended viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZwYV5JYBM&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2074049348241903840 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:34:33 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=WgzRKTDYyjQcCuld&v=l8yqPwRQXHI&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2072390529359212973 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:43:00 GMT recommended viewing. https://mariozechner.at/recommended-reading/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2072038069234966730 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:22:26 GMT recommended reading (this tweet is a bookmark for me, see) https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=6DpKlQgUSk2df6tb&v=TfyPshgMbug&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2072033708765257796 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:05:07 GMT recommended viewing https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/the-primitive-is-the-product https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2071982350477545983 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:41:02 GMT recommended reading. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2071315646441480192/vid/avc1/1920x1080/6fuIazYr-O1jom1M.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2071334129824633125 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:45:14 GMT recommended viewing for occupationally tired people. omg it's so good. @dillon_mulroy @RhysSullivan @threepointone i want to hug you all for this down to earth real world content. @dillon_mulroy @RhysSullivan @threepointone omg they even have great book recommendations. i found my people. again. @dillon_mulroy @RhysSullivan @threepointone dillon is a type drive dev. like me 😭 there are dozens of us. @dillon_mulroy @RhysSullivan @threepointone my only hope is that i never end up on the receipts segment. which means i must stop tweeting. really looking forward to the next episode where they talk about junior upskilling. https://shapeofthesystem.com/posts/2026/02/03/bounded-cognition https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2071206318094897201 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:17:22 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=8r7vX7P6ssDCnVNH&v=5wks1W-auKY&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2069580407612358777 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:36:34 GMT recommended viewing by @GergelyOrosz the theme sounds familiar :) https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents/gdm-ai-control-roadmap.pdf https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2069547061515538466 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:24:04 GMT recommended reading. deepmind's new AI control roadmap. looks like they've given up on solving the lethal trifecta directly. the new direction seems to be a tower of LLMs. i suppose that's as good as it gets. love it https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html?m=1 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2069452982563803611 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:10:14 GMT recommended reading. not because i think all of it is neccesserily true. but it is a perspective with some napkin data points. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2069373488083693982 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:54:21 GMT recommended reading. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2069093096017817603/vid/avc1/3840x2160/0wxXlOGPnBFOP94S.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2069156188902559751 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:30:53 GMT recommended viewing. as are all of her videos. https://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2069142929591906816 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:38:11 GMT recommended reading. i love this type of forensics. an internet friend thought me 8087 fpu programming in the 90ies. first time i had contact with a stack. good times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=JwBlhpvDHmvGttn7&v=5eqRuVp65eY&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2068399666148819446 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:24:44 GMT recommended viewing. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2065415727574634496/vid/avc1/1920x1080/YCtJrdbhp0hRTbs3.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2067222276047548810 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:26:12 GMT recommended viewing. the only tech podcast i listen to these days. https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2066962859771167078 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:15:22 GMT recommended reading. we are getting there. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/americans-only/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2065824723439669477 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:52:49 GMT recommended reading https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2065135794927419867 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:15:16 GMT recommended reading. https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2064830802777530413 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:03:20 GMT recommended reading. the future he envisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IroPQ150F6c https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2064107243209912563 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:08:10 GMT recommended viewing. andrew is a class act, both technically and as a human. https://github.com/openclaw/clawsweeper https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2063932627141185903 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:34:18 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=RblcbyK3N5GmIPM1&v=l6DKRf-fAAM&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2063758978362802356 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:04:17 GMT recommended viewing. https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2063754207904084268 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:45:20 GMT recommended reading. https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fis%3DYVfhs90gN0C7DyQ0%26v%3DzyQwAhppWj8%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&q=EgTHEJ23GICxgtEGIjDPBQNwz-BVZEwIBR9X58M__6uD7hNhCyAXnU5z29UztlmfApLYqpnxRopWiDzkLasyAnJSWgFD https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2062281036088713552 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:11:28 GMT recommended viewing. with interesting numbers. https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2062239128394100835 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:24:57 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2061850535708483585 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2061941296932004175 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:41:28 GMT recommended reading. i really like the durability aspect of dynamic workflows. looked into how it's implemented, and while there are some minor footguns, it's smart! https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=0Nhw68pGLjE9zgpY&v=iqddnwKF8HQ&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2061400604103131561 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:52:57 GMT recommended viewing. andrew kelley, creator of zig, on why he built zig, ai ban, move to codeberg. i like his ethos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=zgnQ75LMuc9t8ORA&v=8BaSBjxNg-M&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2061384913731928528 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:50:36 GMT recommended viewing. recounts the hilarious history of meta's VR adventures. https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2061104408201412903 Sun, 31 May 2026 15:15:59 GMT recommended reading. > On that last point, this technology is horrific for attention > I have no idea how to manage AI at present except by curtailing use, because a tool producing a cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can only be a liability, and achieving that realisation is probably the only real contribution of AI to date. nice https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-88 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2061094386964816022 Sun, 31 May 2026 14:36:09 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2059839454370828288 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2060506819668123907 Fri, 29 May 2026 23:41:22 GMT recommended reading. very happy to see that the concept of bottlenecks and according scaling is catching on. this also extends to things like OSS issue/PR trackers, which are flooded by 3rd party controlled agents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynJyIKwjonM https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2060323691800461552 Fri, 29 May 2026 11:33:41 GMT recommended viewing by @helloiamleonie ! https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2060323416889033031 Fri, 29 May 2026 11:32:36 GMT recommended reading. entirely unsurprisingly, vicki also has good takes on agentic coding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWdlLfJmqw&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2060137904924467675 Thu, 28 May 2026 23:15:26 GMT recommended viewing! i still didn't have time to get my hands dirty on either my new macbook nor my beautiful, amazing @FrameworkPuter at least i already setup the framework. it's awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=3olXEno1Jay4KCyl&v=YJTbsoxPg7E&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2060079433675931934 Thu, 28 May 2026 19:23:06 GMT recommended viewing. founder of quilter on machine learning based PCB layouting. they use an approach inspired by alphago. very down to earth, very informative. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2059684844523675650/vid/avc1/1920x1080/T4YHBfgieHuVBEiW.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2059973971982905592 Thu, 28 May 2026 12:24:02 GMT recommended viewing. dax is a smart cookie. also best beard in the industry. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2059420183379267858 Tue, 26 May 2026 23:43:28 GMT recommended reading. i too am very done with people anthropomorphizing a bunch of matrices on a GPU cluster, especially if the same people do not give two fucks about actual human beings. flicker company is the biggest offender here, with their "model wellbeing" bullshit, while simultaniously telling real humans "we are making you obsolete, and no, we have no alternative plan for you, suck it". fuck that. https://www.youtube.com/@juliaturc1?si=LkcYBwO97FeWvR9e https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2059339141934878774 Tue, 26 May 2026 18:21:26 GMT recommended viewing. probably one of the best explainer sources in our space. channel is full of great stuff. i want to live in a timelone where people prefer this type of content over all that AI devfluencer stuff. but sadly, that's not the universe we live in. subscribe and learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=IQNM1Z5iZFjVaabK&v=NQczevdpxq0&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2059220620794032204 Tue, 26 May 2026 10:30:29 GMT recommended viewing on memory/continual learning, he's very clear that that will be an app level thing, not a model thing, because it's not practical, economical or even possible to fine tune per user models. i think we'll find a lot of other limitations that can never be solved in the model layer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=q7evpEGAKpyJ6wRh&v=oIk3R-sMX5o&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2059197956960444769 Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:25 GMT recommended viewing. i love this whiteboard format. http://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2059190700827140495 Tue, 26 May 2026 08:31:35 GMT recommended reading. https://antirez.com/news/167 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2058935393542693053 Mon, 25 May 2026 15:37:05 GMT recommended reading. https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2058865149453160667 Mon, 25 May 2026 10:57:58 GMT recommended reading. beautifully done. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2058705897522618771 Mon, 25 May 2026 00:25:09 GMT recommended reading. (haven't read it yet) https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2058605190136119448 Sun, 24 May 2026 17:44:59 GMT recommended reading. i wanted to write this blog post, describing how we OSS in pi, for literal months. now i don't have to anymore. thanks, creator of pi. https://x.com/i/article/2058013399091724289 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2058257211684487416 Sat, 23 May 2026 18:42:14 GMT recommended reading. https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057936303291838663 Fri, 22 May 2026 21:27:03 GMT recommended reading. quite a few details on the triaging process, false positives, etc. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21997 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057812929462841796 Fri, 22 May 2026 13:16:49 GMT recommended reading. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2057749360377577472/vid/avc1/1920x1080/mqml-UrS92x7a4Wd.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057764929847824733 Fri, 22 May 2026 10:06:05 GMT recommended viewing. truely love andrea's euro videos. jesus, did they actually crack light fields? that'd be amazing. https://goblins.mchen.workers.dev https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057497090884882885 Thu, 21 May 2026 16:21:47 GMT recommended reading. lol. https://x.com/i/article/2057107605667958784 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057485986041299023 Thu, 21 May 2026 15:37:39 GMT recommended reading! https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=4vnwLgbMtgCmHhtj&v=E3hvLz717zM&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057176589217984525 Wed, 20 May 2026 19:08:14 GMT recommended viewing. even if you are a seasoned engineer, watching computerphile is awesome. master classes in breaking down complex topics. learn how to do that. super power. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2057072405630066689/vid/avc1/1920x1080/aI5PBt0WmUD7eR9p.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057094413969469722 Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:41 GMT recommended viewing. i see mayank and @thorstenball -> i watch. @thorstenball which is great, because i'm about to start this weeks house cleaning and needed something to listen to. thanks guys! @thorstenball man, all the peers i look up tonshare similar stories. the music/code dichotomy has been with me my hole life. also not being a completionist, but being about figuring things out. share some tunes, thorsten! https://maxliani.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/passion-for-software-in-the-age-of-ai/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057064172374913512 Wed, 20 May 2026 11:41:31 GMT recommended reading. > Good solutions don’t appear on paper; markdown is not a fertile ground for ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=IudN_0qepZYG9k2G&v=2hcsmtkSzIw&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056897231546945661 Wed, 20 May 2026 00:38:09 GMT recommended viewing. https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/18/tagging-my-blog-posts-with-bertopic-and-llms/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056725225232867547 Tue, 19 May 2026 13:14:40 GMT recommended reading! such a nice exploration of applying the "old" and new in ML to a tangible problem. having nostalgic feels when reading LDA. https://antirez.com/news/166 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056696881221124100 Tue, 19 May 2026 11:22:02 GMT recommended reading, on a variation of @_can1357 's hash line read/edit tools for agents. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056442002959450600 Mon, 18 May 2026 18:29:15 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=glpNyjjVkJ69aQlr&v=JNyuX1zoOgU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056351988569264519 Mon, 18 May 2026 12:31:33 GMT recommended viewing. love the insights on distillation and edge inference. i want that. otoh you have the host claiming "engineers are now 500-1000x more productive" 🫠 at around 16:15 he roasts the army of agents folks. it's hilarious. "we still need craft and human taste. why haven't we seen a kid make a hit game? we aren't there yet." this coming from someone who deeply knows the entire stack down to the machine level should give you pause. i love him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=cFUVMS-1KhaP5bl9&v=ngBraLDqzdI&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056323856797737473 Mon, 18 May 2026 10:39:46 GMT recommended viewing. it's a really good interview with @ylecun. feeling a lot of good european energy wrt open systems, societal chances and risks, etc. :) https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056151438296850474 Sun, 17 May 2026 23:14:38 GMT recommended reading. https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056118943924793379 Sun, 17 May 2026 21:05:31 GMT recommended reading. also read part II. also read naur's original article. > As the paper puts it: when AI is “right,” people become less skilled. When AI is “wrong,” you need skilled people to catch and fix the errors. Either way, the institution suffers. https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056118825767129323 Sun, 17 May 2026 21:05:03 GMT recommended reading. also read part II. alsomread naur's original article. https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.pdf https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2056117351532143048 Sun, 17 May 2026 20:59:12 GMT recommended reading. still relevant. https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2055737604234973205 Sat, 16 May 2026 19:50:13 GMT recommended reading. this is our field's version of "i hoped AI would be able to do my laundry, but instead it does my art" https://antirez.com/news/165 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2055191040940818569 Fri, 15 May 2026 07:38:22 GMT recommended reading by @antirez > I worked 14 hours per day on average. My normal average is 4/6 since early Redis times, but the first few months of Redis were like that. this isnhow i work too, intense bursts followed by a healthier phase. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2054649817129730048/vid/avc1/1920x1080/Z107p6tyGnhjuR_L.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2055007477322612947 Thu, 14 May 2026 19:28:57 GMT recommended viewing! https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2054654045759979768 Wed, 13 May 2026 20:04:32 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=mU_fOQYf0st0e7mS&v=1xxa5fxJkZo&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2054599103997264158 Wed, 13 May 2026 16:26:13 GMT recommended viewing. terrence tao on education + AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=mwiYvE800kPC0q8c&v=Rtkac4WHC1o&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2054523650515091744 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:26:24 GMT recommended viewing. great points on LLMs and education. we don't need to solve content, we need to solve the motivation problem. his out there proposal is a bit ... uhm yeah. https://x.com/i/article/2054083280593641472 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2054511349825171475 Wed, 13 May 2026 10:37:31 GMT recommended reading. https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053945758546526368 Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:03 GMT recommended reading. strongly recommended reading. i really like the pain avoidance angle. slots into my "paon/friction is when you learn" angle. when combined > cognitive debt. allowing to toot my own horn a little. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2053825939088257024/vid/avc1/1920x1080/fPS14e02b0SYUT6o.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053874779824763196 Mon, 11 May 2026 16:28:01 GMT recommended viewing. best pod in the space. someone acquire them for 1b. https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053747834696995181 Mon, 11 May 2026 08:03:35 GMT recommended reading. don't get confused by the title. https://x.com/i/article/2052738533111013380 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053536431784575312 Sun, 10 May 2026 18:03:32 GMT recommended reading. i too am concerned about what agents mean for genuine learning. i think what tobi propsoses here is one piece of the puzzle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=HCZ2pawMGxOTifWl&v=CPrePbvbbic&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2053401384553226587 Sun, 10 May 2026 09:06:55 GMT recommended viewing. in anders we trust. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2052843801429881251 Fri, 08 May 2026 20:11:16 GMT recommended reading https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/8/local-models/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2052691176373805534 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:04:48 GMT recommended reading by our junion developer @mitsuhiko my name is pidalf, and i support this message. would love to have some spare cycles to join @antirez effort and use some of my GPU knowledge. alas. https://x.com/i/article/2051783989027848193 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051944538025967879 Wed, 06 May 2026 08:37:55 GMT recommended reading. strongly so. > And these layoffs will continue till we learn to use AI. Till we learn to convert AI-tokens into outcomes and not just input. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=KE6-ZuIBQpYCIxfU&v=sZzc6tAtTrM&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051808420785774821 Tue, 05 May 2026 23:37:02 GMT recommended viewing on NN pruning. forever thankful MIT is putting these lectures out on the web for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=9ZVKp9s0AhwzzPLq&v=96jN2OCOfLs&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051572307445842415 Tue, 05 May 2026 07:58:49 GMT recommended viewing because @karpathy listen to be people who say "i don't know, but i'm excited to find out". seek them out. ignore the rest. https://leoniemonigatti.com/blog/fine-tuning-lfm2-5-1-2b-instruct-with-grpo.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051398208920691116 Mon, 04 May 2026 20:27:00 GMT recommended reading! https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/content-for-contents-sake/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051305577721086346 Mon, 04 May 2026 14:18:55 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMY https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2051052748016140776 Sun, 03 May 2026 21:34:16 GMT recommended viewing. it is a very, very good talk. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-84 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2050850265297760320 Sun, 03 May 2026 08:09:40 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=hV2ANEl-wPh1MSU1&v=kYkIdXwW2AE&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2050685104335274090 Sat, 02 May 2026 21:13:23 GMT recommended viewing. kind of tired of transformers tbh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=r9m2YdR7ItrA9hnC&v=xmkSf5IS-zw&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049649797250809861 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:39:26 GMT recommended viewing. strongly so. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2049501092946354177/vid/avc1/1920x1080/sbL3L0kVtUQjuC9h.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049530431737860437 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:08 GMT recommended viewing because clankolas looks cute in his suit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=VOQvAvUKZA589rR6&v=VTQR9n3aqNU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049418651942432782 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:20:57 GMT recommended viewing. haven't read the paper yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=qGGjzrVU4BdxvCJa&v=mVH7OPx4QZU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2049188047284015546 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:04:37 GMT recommended viewing. the kids are alright. this kid is awesome let's throw money at the kid, so he can build more awesome stuff. that comma is very confusing to my european brain ... https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048571595153666061 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:15:03 GMT recommended reading https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-83 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048342008159166559 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:02:45 GMT recommended reading. this man reads. so should you. https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048333814577951018 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:30:12 GMT recommended reading. > The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUvGOuotE&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048148015920079350 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:11:54 GMT recommended viewing by the forking company CTO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4F1gFy-hqg https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2047689973357269321 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:51:48 GMT recommended viewing https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2047373975706112450 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:56:08 GMT recommended reading. cool they are fixing things. but it's also a reason i switched away from CC. no control over the harness means having to wait for them to fix things. the model didn't change. the harness did. https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2047226989942087940 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:12:04 GMT recommended reading. i like computers too and can relate to a lot in here. https://x.com/i/article/2046690715657478145 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2047055760236916759 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:51:40 GMT recommended reading. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-82 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2045746744248439132 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:10:06 GMT recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=CQFlWnWZk5qApBNz&v=_Zcw_sVF6hU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2045592220951015572 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:56:05 GMT recommended viewing. specifically because cristina is awesome. first ever talk is a keynote in front of a huge audience and she didn't even flinch. inspiring and really happy she's on the team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2044916499920396451 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:11:00 GMT recommended viewing https://vickiboykis.com/2026/04/13/mechanical-sympathy/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2044046824458031524 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:35:14 GMT recommended reading https://vickiboykis.com/2026/04/13/mechanical-sympathy/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2044046355069370402 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:33:22 GMT recommended reading. https://x.com/i/article/2043727556529295360 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2043757216885256463 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:24:26 GMT recommended reading. https://www.lukaskawerau.com/posts/opinionated-shovel-makers-vs-opinionated-diggers https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2043596522223186248 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:45:53 GMT recommended reading. we need more diggers. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/the-center-has-a-bias/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2043239175600697603 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:05:55 GMT recommended reading. fwiw, i never saw myself being thrown in with the zero-criticism crowd. i was called a luddite a lot of times tho, especially on here :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=geQRaalbUWsq6T1p&v=fdbXNWkpPMY&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2042714418589356037 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:20:43 GMT recommended viewing. one more time, on it's own. this is probably yhe most practical talk on using coding agents i've watched to date. watch it. by @lucasmeijer it's also a great demo of pi and captures exactly why i built it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=geQRaalbUWsq6T1p&v=fdbXNWkpPMY&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2042713613228536222 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:17:31 GMT recommended viewing. one more time, on it's own. this is probably yhe most practical talk on using coding agents i've watched to date. watch it. by @lucasmeijer https://x.com/i/article/2041548775328829440 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2041579414152949763 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:10:37 GMT recommended reading. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2041180604654628865/vid/avc1/1920x1080/PrrFWmD9lXl4y2y_.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2041251625625334058 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:28:06 GMT recommended viewing. the high-level pi intro video i never managed to cobble together :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyerrv8ohw&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2040562128310960325 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:48:17 GMT recommended viewing, selfishly, cause this one is comparatively old. and features some none tech stuff at the end. plus it's super cool to talk to and learn from young and talented folks like @0xSero https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/4/absurd-in-production/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2040381061675221282 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:48:48 GMT recommended reading. https://zenodo.org/records/19374601 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2040022909540843685 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:05:38 GMT recommended reading haven't dug through it entirely yet, but some interesting bits in there. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2039782692238327809/vid/avc1/1920x1080/p4ANkE7G8CVG5X7J.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2039790871130866066 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:43:35 GMT RECOMMENDED VIEWING! https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2039701042233790944 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:46:38 GMT recommended reading https://sunilpai.dev/posts/developer-relations/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2039692318043775422 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:11:58 GMT recommended reading https://build.ms/2026/4/1/the-claude-code-leak/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2039625247775773050 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:45:28 GMT recommended reading https://www.adamhjk.com/blog/you-still-have-to-refactor-even-with-ai/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2038789246119551108 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:23:29 GMT recommended reading. strongly recommended reading. even it "you have to augment the agent" is phrasing i wouldn't use myself. https://martinvol.pe/blog/2026/03/30/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2038612991965311220 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:43:07 GMT recommended reading. not because i think it's all true, but it's an interesting perspective and thought exercise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZR6tc7qYg https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2038192742619058366 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:53:12 GMT recommended viewing! https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2037967870752325632/vid/avc1/1920x1080/DiBWOEOplDQQd0nT.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2037986945448517972 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:15:26 GMT recommended viewing (selfishly) Mayank is an excellent host and I had an immense amount of fun! https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2037589147897249792/vid/avc1/1920x1080/5awPBY2Zjd-QHms3.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2037611757389197711 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:24:34 GMT recommended viewing you should share with your normie friends. https://blog.exe.dev/bones-of-the-software-factory https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2037586498959147254 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:44:12 GMT recommended reading https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-running-apps https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2036730953880465529 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:04:34 GMT recommended reading > When asked to evaluate work they've produced, agents tend to respond by confidently praising the work—even when, to a human observer, the quality is obviously mediocre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkZXT13kT70 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2036523348985794712 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:19:37 GMT recommended viewing! Marlene has great energy and if you aren't well versed in agentic coding yet, this is a great intro talk. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-79 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2036067985400422554 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:10:10 GMT recommended reading. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2035352333312311344 Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:46:25 GMT recommended reading. i'd add that friction is also what lets you learn. remove it and you learn nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=UKY-KkI4MKeBEH9r&v=kwSVtQ7dziU&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2035076917129314750 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:32:01 GMT recommended viewing https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2033927840123482240 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:26:00 GMT recommended reading! Ritesh always has the best highly technical deep dives. even if you don't know the domain, you'll walk away with many insights! https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/3/14/the-others/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2033327895095992397 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:42:02 GMT recommended reading. https://boristane.com/blog/slop-creep-enshittification-of-software/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2033269162101948879 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:48:39 GMT recommended reading. also, hi, my name is gramps, and i mostly support this message. slop creep is the perfect name for it https://x.com/i/article/2031387672686604289 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2031511408907567210 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:23:58 GMT recommended reading. for me, a harness also needs to serve the human-agent interaction. atm, we mostly invest in the agent part. https://x.com/i/article/2031387672686604289 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2031511284038959128 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:23:28 GMT recommended reading. for me, a harness also beeds to serve the human-agent interaction. atm, we mostly invest in the agent part. https://www.workshoplabs.ai/blog/open-weights-open-training https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2031161992946610234 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:15:30 GMT recommended reading. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2031121604852261092 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:35:01 GMT recommended reading. had this on my reading list for a while, finally found time. it's a small study, ymmv. would love to see one with senior engs. they great atrophy has begun. https://antirez.com/news/162 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2030918182957945292 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:06:42 GMT recommended reading. especially interesting when contrasted with redis' licensing history. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2030284224985550848/vid/avc1/1920x1080/xPXMCnIwuOLP8foH.mp4 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2030752763211096200 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:09:22 GMT recommended viewing. "we're all making hotdogs" https://x.com/i/article/2029917440348426240 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2030185895794446553 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:36:51 GMT recommended reading. (fwiw, i find @doodlestein 's work to be interesting, shows what works and doesn't yet. kinda like a canary in the SWE mines) https://nonstructured.com/zen-of-ai-coding/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2028942226798117333 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:14:57 GMT recommended reading by @yobo. not signing everything 100% but many good observations and thoughts in there. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-76 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2028009440717238331 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:28:23 GMT recommended reading. love this. https://mgratzer.com/posts/from-ore-to-iron/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2026817816855269639 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:33:18 GMT recommended reading. one of the issues of agent-based apps is that many non-techies have trouble understanding what they can actually do with it. an agent-guided "tutorial" of sorts really helps non-techies explore capabilities. those tutorials are kinda hard to design tho, https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/25/two-things-i-believe-about-coding-agents.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2026816776361709805 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:29:10 GMT recommended reading. my gut tells me that people who know their codebases also have an advantage steering the agent. plus, some codebases are more accessible to agents than others. https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2024898366145020081 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:26:05 GMT recommended reading. many good thoughts in this. https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2024756735185924219 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:03:18 GMT recommended reading by @clattner_llvm https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-llm-evaluation-to-guardrails https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2024660797960372465 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:42:05 GMT recommended reading by @RoyaPak super cool work. https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2024654566701101517 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:17:19 GMT recommended reading https://static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2024578049950285934 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:13:16 GMT recommended reading. I love how they have no shame showing a dashboard clearly generated by Claude, emojis and all :D https://mgratzer.com/posts/forging-a-workflow/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2024441806226706533 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:11:53 GMT recommended reading by a really good engineer. https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2023797707505340689 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:32:28 GMT Recommended reading. "But then I think about the next generation who will be coming along and bringing with them, against all odds, a love for learning and creating. Because that is a human thing." https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2022470876944339007 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:40:07 GMT recommended reading. complements @mitsuhiko and @thorstenball https://x.com/i/article/2021829028160700416 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2022331510125195328 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:26:19 GMT recommended reading. this feels intuitively right. you can kind of see this in OSS as well, where you'd think the cost to copy is essentially zero now. but it's anything but. OSS that gives into vibeslop or full clanker automation falls apart. OSS that has strong human guidance https://x.com/i/article/2021660093725696000 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2021962396357771423 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:59:36 GMT recommended reading. matt's vibe-texted essay even hit some of my normie friends and it does quite a bit of damage already. https://x.com/i/article/2021795056764469249 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2021868004221608359 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:44:31 GMT Recommended reading. Hashing lines is such a smart idea, I'm not beating myself up having not thought of this myself. Good stuff! Try oh-my-pi, the batteries included version of pi. https://x.com/i/article/2021638167892242432 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2021734258352517190 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:53:03 GMT recommended reading (found on @nateberkopec 's TL). This is not anti-LLM. This is anti-performative-productivity and we need more of it. https://x.com/i/article/2021347850656022528 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2021678173461901422 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:10:12 GMT recommended reading. the primitives are really this simple. as usual, the devil's in the details. try it yourself! it's a great rainy sunday afternoon project. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2021518326753886266 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:35:01 GMT recommended reading https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2020470675601817717 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:12:02 GMT Recommended reading. "the best software for an agent is whatever is best for a programmer." http://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2020228895178416268 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:11:17 GMT Recommended reading. But out of the old will come something new. The only thing that needs fixing is the dependency on big labs. I'm not sure it can be, unless they become true commodities. https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2019526859382485125 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:41:38 GMT Recommended reading. https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2019119928784355778 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:44:39 GMT Recommended reading. https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2018734627171545125 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:13:36 GMT Recommended reading https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2018178663213093014 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:24:23 GMT Recommended reading. Microsoft could actually be responsible for the non-existant adoption of agentic tools in enterprises, because Copilot is so piss poor. https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2017948074555879502 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:08:07 GMT Recommended reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=GeNPG94uipD8Wbrs&v=8lF7HmQ_RgY&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2016987015997276488 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:29:13 GMT Recommended viewing. "What if you could do 600 commits per day and none of it was slop? This is what Peter claims is doing" I would be very surprised if @steipete actually claimed that :D https://x.com/i/article/2015345595687583744 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2015746137446060259 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:18:24 GMT Recommended reading. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-71 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2015367835111854422 Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:15:10 GMT Recommended reading. https://isometric.nyc/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2014707125524508784 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:29:44 GMT Recommended reading. Crazy that the fine tune of Qwen only took 40 samples. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/how-ai-destroys-institutions/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2013986621952032826 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:46:43 GMT Recommended reading https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2013219443283808472 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:58:13 GMT Recommended reading. Building slop machine pipelines that build more slop machine pipelines instead of software actual humans use is not productivity. If your feelings are hurt, because your 1 minute vibeslop PR got closed, consult a professional. https://emsh.cat/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2012210162811974075 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:07:42 GMT Recommended reading. This is very 2026. https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2012016354766020744 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:17:35 GMT Recommended reading. I believe this to be true as well. https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2011611553616052685 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:29:02 GMT Recommended reading. http://x.com/i/article/2010826317634420736 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2011251869851795825 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:39:47 GMT Recommended reading. It will take a while until coding agents are normie compatible. https://x.com/i/article/2010134997856927745 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2010161246923043133 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:26:02 GMT Recommended reading. They say "never meet your heroes", but I'm glad I had Duncan, creator of x64dbg, show up with PRs in the pi repo. I've used x64dbg for super gnarly stuff over the years, and it's been a pleasure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANQ1IYsFM2s https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2009381993503457343 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:49:34 GMT Recommended viewing. Armin tried vibe coding (not reading the code) over the holidays. He also shows a little bit of pi extensibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Q7Zi8tItSHZmZccX&v=rmvDxxNubIg&feature=youtu.be https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2005926955707773256 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:00:29 GMT Recommended viewing. @dexhorthy on context engineering and avoiding the dumb zone. Only 20 minutes and contains all you need to know. I really like @humanlayer_dev. They cut through the bullshit and condense what (often, most likely) works. https://cpojer.net/posts/you-are-absolutely-right https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2005651088280793253 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:44:17 GMT Recommended reading. https://archive.nuanced.dev/blog/evaluating-lsp https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2003839813733200213 Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:46:55 GMT Recommended reading on agents + LSP. Nuanced provides code intelligence tools to agents. First measured, whether the agent used to tool consistently. Then whether it was able to be better/more efficient with the tool. Not going to spoil the result, read it! https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/17/what-is-plan-mode/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2001399440515457410 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:09:45 GMT Recommended reading. "But why can I not just ask the model to plan with me?" https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2000364141186351303 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:35:50 GMT Recommended reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvosMkuNxF8&t=4s https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1999650281148088711 Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:19:13 GMT Recommended viewing https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/gpt-5.2-trust-safety-assessment/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1999218830707687690 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:44:47 GMT Recommended reading. https://ampcode.com/notes/200k-tokens-is-plenty https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1998692187853193557 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:52:06 GMT Recommended reading. Glad I'm not alone in thinking that long threads are bad. Which is also why I was hesitant adding compaction. It's an antipattern imo. This won't change as long as model architectures for long context windows continue to be smoke and mirrors. https://ampcode.com/notes/200k-tokens-is-plenty https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1998691234529910874 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:48:18 GMT Recommended reading. Glad I'm not alone in thinking that long threads are bad. Which is also why I was hesitant adding compaction. It's an antipattern imo. This won't change until model architectures for long context windows continue to be smoke and mirrors. https://www.hlyr.dev/blog/context-efficient-backpressure https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1998516913971057082 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:15:37 GMT Recommended reading! https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/mcp-deepdive https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1998498272348913749 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:01:33 GMT Recommended reading. From the article. https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1997585789799330293 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:35:40 GMT Recommended reading. "First, to those who can recognize an LLM’s reveals (an expanding demographic!), it’s just embarrassing — it’s as if the writer is walking around with their intellectual fly open. " https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1996412881437622657 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:54:57 GMT Recommended reading, albeit anecdotal. https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1995299115438362951 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:09:14 GMT Recommended reading by @dexhorthy Applies to just as well. Progressive disclosure in is great for big mono-repos. Here's my pi-mono. It's actually a little text adventure :) https://www.vtrivedy.com/posts/agents-should-be-more-opinionated https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1995178317981385153 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:09:14 GMT Recommended reading, lots of things that match my own experience. https://futurism.com/future-society/south-korea-ai-textbook https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1995061479629029573 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:24:57 GMT Recommended reading. https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/llm-extension https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1993137267494600780 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:58:49 GMT Recommended reading by @sawyerhood "An agent isn't just a LLM in a while loop. It's an LLM in a while loop that has a computer strapped to it." Jupp! https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/10/pgaf316/8303888?login=false https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1991865446795239869 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:45:04 GMT Recommended reading. Would be interesting to see similar studies wrt acquisition of knowledge in software development. https://dimillian.medium.com/does-the-code-matter-da4b1b36e4fc?sk=3c5d2a912296e31affd394d9fdad1ad7 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1991427295639224467 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:44:00 GMT Recommended reading. Three notes. OP doesn't let the LLM go wild, but uses it deliberately to generate self contained things they disect. I still find value in coding by hand. Coding is a mode of thinking, just like writting is a mode of thinking for a writer. It's a way for me http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/agentic-ais-ooda-loop-problem.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1990331188049805597 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:08:28 GMT Recommended reading. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=mdA5lVvNcU https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1987410902123966895 Sun, 09 Nov 2025 06:44:18 GMT Recommended reading. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/3/absurd-workflows/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1986222434811256905 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:01:45 GMT Recommended reading. It follows the "use agentic coding to create a minimal, well designed thing, not a space ship" principle. Love it. https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1982491299396935896 Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:55:33 GMT Recommended reading. This resonates. As an ex-(shitty)-ML researcher, I marvel at the scientific achievement. As a programmer, I try to find ways to make them useful. As a human, I despise the future their invention and deployment has brought upon us https://www.learnui.design/blog/wheres-the-ai-design-renaissance.html https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1981785337295749185 Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:10:18 GMT Recommended reading. https://steipete.me/posts/just-talk-to-it https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1978179109101416533 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:20:27 GMT Recommended reading https://www.pinaraf.info/2025/10/jit-so-you-want-to-be-faster-than-an-interpreter-on-modern-cpus/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1977882854538219645 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:43:14 GMT Recommended reading. https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners?tab=readme-ov-file https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1977553465707467253 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:54:22 GMT Recommended reading. https://nickyoder.com/johnson-lindenstrauss/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1967501676178522600 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:12:08 GMT Recommended reading. https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/gpt-5/gpt-5_prompting_guide https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1965005583293292794 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:53:33 GMT Recommended reading on GPT-5 specific parameters and prompting rules. https://aerial-toothpaste-34a.notion.site/How-OpenAI-Misled-You-on-RLHF-1f83f742d9dd80a68129d06503464aff https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1957016859963761061 Sun, 17 Aug 2025 09:49:13 GMT Recommended reading. Nice explainer of RL wrt LLM training. https://zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1956278343273234614 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:54:37 GMT Recommended reading. I think the complexity current gen LLMs can handle is a little higher than the author makes it out to be. But the overall point stands. https://arxiv.org/html/2507.02825v5 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1956032613581214099 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:38:11 GMT Recommended reading. Interesting insights on commonly cited/used benchmarks like SWE-bench. https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1955645910064787805 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:01:33 GMT Recommended reading on how the sausage is made. Fun to see research results go into prod (well, if one considers gpt-oss prod). https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1955518912277385466 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:36:55 GMT Recommended reading. The whole blog is great. CoreNN looks super cool too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAH7-u7t5k https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1954250226942038514 Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:35:36 GMT Recommended viewing. https://www.zolkos.com/2025/08/04/sonnet-vs-opus-under-limits https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1952552287810802053 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:08:36 GMT Recommended reading. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/4/shitty-types/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1952449130833551716 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:18:42 GMT Recommended reading. My €0,02: For TS, I tell the agent to spawn a subagent after code changes that runs the linter (Biome with --write . to auto-fix stuff) and type checker (tsc --noEmit) and tries to fix things up. Also tell it explicitely to fix all anys (Biome marks those) https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1952021315499577345 Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:58:43 GMT Recommended reading, especially the "avoiding the margin call" section, including some details on where Devin is headed. https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1951746768753803541 Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:47:46 GMT Recommended reading. Mirrors my experience. Claude Code (or whatever agent you fancy) is perfect for cleaning up months and years of tech debt in a matter of days or weeks. If you keep it on a tight leash so it doesn't add new tech debt that is. https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1949798923406549398 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:47:43 GMT Recommended reading. Insightful and impressive at the same time. Imagine how much info the author has to juggle in their head. https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/ https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1949109313189904660 Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:07:27 GMT Recommended reading. I like the community idea. An alternative would be better, dare I say, distributed, software. One could still "self-host" (do possibly by renting hardware), and connect to others. Hrm, hrm, hrm. https://www.trychroma.com/research/context-rot https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/1944926839043924112 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:07:48 GMT Recommended reading. This has been known for quite some time but still nice to see more replications.