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I have more questions than time to answer them. My backlog is full of things I genuinely want to explore: “Is a Crossplane Composition plus function-sequencer really equivalent to a hand-written Kubebuilder controller?”, “Can Temporal reliably drive a Deep-Agent loop?” and, more recently, “Can TigerData run on CNPG without a custom operator?” In theory, these just need a focused weekend. In reality, between work and chasing after my kids in the playground, my window for “sitting at a desk to explore” is maybe two evenings a week....

Weekly Video Notes — Classic of the Week. A foundational talk worth re-watching, paired with key frames and a short essay on why it still matters. Fifteen years after it was delivered, Rich Hickey’s “Simple Made Easy” remains the single best talk on software complexity ever recorded. The thesis is one sentence — simple and easy are different things, and conflating them is the root cause of most accidental complexity....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. In this 1h10m Latent Space conversation, Cognition CTO Walden Yan and engineer Cole Murray walk through what they’re calling Devin’s “80% moment” — the point at which an autonomous coding agent can land production-grade PRs on real codebases at a rate that changes how teams work. Cognition is reporting a 7× increase in merged PRs for teams that adopt their background-agent workflow, and the conversation digs into why hand-held in-IDE coding is no longer the frontier....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. Cursor just published the 2026 edition of its Developer Habits report, drawing on aggregate data from millions of Cursor users. In this 16-minute walkthrough, a Cursor engineer reads the report live and annotates it with personal commentary from 10+ years building software. It’s the closest thing the industry has to a quantitative snapshot of how coding agents are reshaping day-to-day engineering work....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. Bjarne Stroustrup designed C++ at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and has spent the four decades since shepherding it through standardization, a thousand committee fights, and a parade of would-be successors. This nearly two-hour conversation covers the whole arc — origin story, the Bell Labs research culture, the philosophy of “negative-overhead abstraction,” the politics of memory safety, and the handful of decisions he genuinely regrets....

DeepMind’s roughly six-minute overview video, “Generating novel scientific hypotheses with Co-Scientist,” opens not with a product demo but with a confession from scientists: the firehose of new literature has long since outpaced the humans trying to drink from it. One researcher describes having “hundreds of Chrome tabs and papers open.” Another says the amount of knowledge needed to stay at the frontier of a field now doubles roughly every two months....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. Dwarkesh Patel got an unusually concrete tour of a working AI training facility this week: Jane Street’s GB300 NVL72 cluster in Texas, guided by Ron Minsky (co-head of the technology group) and Daniel Pontecorvo (physical engineering). It’s only 16 minutes long, but it’s a dense walk through the things that actually break when you try to put modern GPU racks into a building that was never designed for them — cooling, leak detection, power balancing, and miles of copper and fiber....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. 📜 Classic of the Week. This week’s digest re-surfaces a 2023 classic: Andrej Karpathy’s “Let’s build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.” Three years later it is still, hands down, the clearest single resource for understanding what is actually happening inside a transformer. If you have never sat with it end-to-end, this is your nudge....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. Ron Minsky opens his talk with a self-deprecating framing: he’s the guy who’s spent a career advocating for rigorous engineering — strong types, OCaml, careful testing, taking code review seriously — and now, in the era of coding agents, he’s back to tell you that all that stuff is now more important, not less....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. What’s better than one GPT-5.5 Pi coding agent? Two GPT-5.5 Pi coding agents that can actually talk to each other. That’s the opening provocation of IndyDevDan’s latest video, and it leads into a deceptively simple shift in multi-agent design: drop the orchestrator, give every agent a two-way communication channel to every other agent, and let the best information win....