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Nate’s Software Editorial

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  1. AI & AGENTS

    I was the main person doing transcript analysis for this investigation of the Hugging Face incident. My main takeaway: We don't have good approaches for understanding/overseeing the activity and aims of AI 'swarms'. I semi-jokingly called our efforts a "slop-vestigation" because x.com

    via Ryan Greenblatt @RyanGreenblatt

  2. AI & AGENTS

    My Agent when I tell it that I don't freaking trust them and ask for evidence, code pointers, ascii diagrams, confidence levels for the 4th time. x.com

    via John Kim @PremiumGoblin

  3. AI & AGENTS

    I think the release of Bun 1.4 marks the end of programming as we know it. Anthropic and OpenAI developers live in the near future and if we pay attention, it's what's coming for the rest of us by next year: pauldix.com

    via Paul Dix @pauldix

  4. CULTURE & OTHER

    The hardest part of software engineering is convincing people that a simple solution is actually better than an impressive one x.com

    via Roman @romxdev

  5. AI & AGENTS

    the model treats empty space as unfinished work. you have to explicitly tell it silence is a design choice x.com

    via rusa @rusabuilds

  6. AI & AGENTS

    Last night before bed I told Claude I wanted to get a graph of the CO2 levels in my bedroom from the Chinese air quality monitor But at the same time I don’t want it phoning home to the CCP “No problem” it said as it set up a home assistant docker container, ssh’ed into the x.com

    via Theo Vararu @NihilSineTheo

  7. CULTURE & OTHER

    engineers being upset at the level of abstraction new engineers operate at is a tale as old as time. x.com

    via hirad @hiradp

  8. AI & AGENTS

    Staff software engineer prompting a cloud agent to stop adding narrative copy to the UI x.com

    via Ryan Florence @ryanflorence

  9. CULTURE & OTHER

    European tech is simply unstoppable. It's over for Silicon Valley x.com

    via Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder

  10. AI & AGENTS

    another week at the prompt factory x.com

    via trash @trashh_dev

  11. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Darkbloom is back in action; Yesterday, we went from free tier to paid tier on OpenRouter. We have fulfilled on track close at 4.5B tokens served and $102K ARR. We are open network of Mac machines (250 online right now). On average, people are earning $120-200 per month per x.com

    via Gajesh @gajesh

  12. CULTURE & OTHER

    We built for this. It invokes them. 🤣 flightywifi.com

    via Ryan Jones @rjonesy

  13. CULTURE & OTHER

    every company eventually becomes 11 people doing actual work and 64 people asking for updates x.com

    via Dabs🩸 @DabsMalone

  14. CULTURE & OTHER

    I wrote a long thingy indicting you for how you program. That's what we do now. That's the rule. sockpuppet.org

    via Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf

  15. CULTURE & OTHER

    Post by Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン martinfowler.com

    via Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll

  16. AI & AGENTS

    Most founders copy/paste their privacy policy from Stripe or ask Claude to draft an MSA at 2:00 AM, then pray they don't get sued. You can stop doing this. We built a free, CC0-licensed legal template library for startups: -MSAs -Employment agreements -Privacy policies x.com

    via Ryan Walker @rwalk_xyz

  17. CULTURE & OTHER

    on a call with the new team. nobody said "we'll give folks a few minutes to trickle in" and the guy presenting didn’t even ask "can everyone see my screen?" x.com

    via JT @jiratickets

  18. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Who's gonna tell vibe coders about... > Rate Limiting > Caching > Load Balancing > Reverse Proxies > API Gateways > CI/CD > Docker > Kubernetes > Service Discovery > Circuit Breakers > Timeouts > Retries > Exponential Backoff > Idempotency > Message Queues > Pub/Sub > x.com

    via Sakshi @Sakshi50038

  19. AI & AGENTS

    ai;dr (AI; didn't read) x.com

    via Franziska Hinkelmann, PhD @fhinkel

  20. CULTURE & OTHER

    software engineering Q3 2026 x.com

    via David @dzhng

  21. AI & AGENTS

    Google engineer: "In 2026 if you aren't building AI agents it's crazy how behind you are at Google, 85% of our engineers were running self-improving agentic loops & graphs" in this 32-minute talk a Google engineer reveals how the future of agentic coding will look worth more x.com

    via Movez @0xMovez

  22. CULTURE & OTHER

    Euler's genius in mathematics is staggering! He solved the sum of reciprocals of squares (pi²/6) and invented the zeta function, linking sums to prime number products. A true mathematical GOAT! #Math #Euler #ZetaFunction x.com

    via From First Principles @FFPPod

  23. AI & AGENTS

    지도를 작품처럼 그려주는 오픈소스를 찾음!! 우리 동네를 감성 있는 지도 포스터로 만들어 줌 장소명이나 지도 스크린샷만 있으면 끝, 도로, 건물, 공원, 물길까지 예쁘게 표현해줌 단순히 AI로 만든 지도보다 이런 감성이 훨씬 잘 먹히죠 콘텐츠 만드는 사람이라면 일단 꼭 공유 & 북마크! x.com

    via MagicAI @magic_ai_skill

  24. AI & AGENTS

    i didn't tell anyone about this repo but it kept getting stars 😂 so i guess it's time to share it introducing /vision. it's a very simple skill to help you write down an explicit VISION.md file for your project but what's VISION.md? as we let agents do more and more work for x.com

    via Kun Chen @kunchenguid

  25. PROGRAMMING

    The reason I built this is that I suspect we really need new token-efficient programming languages or new ways to read code (nah ast-grep outline). Using this tool tells me a surprising result: git is one of the most token-hungry commands in my workflow. Always measure! x.com

    via Herrington Darkholme @hd_nvim

  26. PROGRAMMING

    Generative Antitecture. This is not a house. This is automatic architecture. // Vanilla Javascript x.com

    via Mannay 🌹 @mannay

  27. AI & AGENTS

    Protip if you're vibe coding games: Ask claude to make every system *configurable* with a constants file. Separate the game system logic files from *configuration constants* so you can easily hand-tune things like game feel (animation speeds etc.) I have an entire directory x.com

    via Chubigans @metatransformr

  28. AI & AGENTS

    an infinitely large model trained on infinite data still cannot go below 1.69 GPT-4 burned three months on twenty five thousand GPUs inching toward it plot every model ever trained, error against compute on a log scale, and none of them gets below one straight line. runs ten x.com

    via helicerat @helicerat0x

  29. CULTURE & OTHER

    If you’re interviewing tap in there is so much alpha here it’s insane x.com

    via seb (recruiting arc) @hiiinternet

  30. CULTURE & OTHER

    If you've heard about PBT and want to learn more, we just published a 30-minute introductory video with hands-on exercises that helps you develop an intuition for what PBT is and how to implement it, in collaboration with @Keleesssss, and the @CarnegieMellon Center for x.com

    via Antithesis @AntithesisHQ

  31. AI & AGENTS

    seniority in any role is often just the ability to take a poorly shaped prompt (eg “this is bad, make it better”) and do the right thing the more senior you are, the more misshapen the prompt you can handle some of you may know this by the name of “handling ambiguity” from your x.com

    via Kevin Yien @kevinyien

  32. CULTURE & OTHER

    Every project needs a principles chart. x.com

    via Jacob Titus @jacob__titus

  33. PROGRAMMING

    That's a small reminder! 👇 As of June 2026, HTTP has a new method - a GET with a `body` 😎 Meet QUERY (RFC 10008). It lets you send complex queries in the body (like POST) while staying safe, idempotent, and cacheable (like GET). Already works on servers (Node.js, Go, x.com

    via IP @ipwanciu

  34. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    just spent an hour on Material-Archiv.. looking at materials. it's a Swiss database for designers, architects and craftspeople to explore materials, their properties, and make informed material choices. i got completely lost in these textures hehe materialarchiv.ch

    via Holly Blake @hollycurates

  35. AI & AGENTS

    As someone who ships LLM systems in production, this hairy ball theorem video is the closest thing to a "why positional encoding in 3D robotics always breaks" explainer I've ever seen released for free. Everyone thinks orientation in 3D space is a solved problem. A theorem from x.com

    via Eron @0xEronn

  36. AI & AGENTS

    I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, x.com

    via swisscheese @swisscheese4299

  37. AI & AGENTS

    I'm officially done reading AI-generated code. It's been two weeks since I looked at any of it. I think the IDE is officially on its way to the graveyard. The job is no longer about "writing code," so we need new tools that better reflect this new reality. While reviewing the x.com

    via Santiago @svpino

  38. AI & AGENTS

    AI agent’lar için açık kaynak Palantir yapmışlar: Semantica. Veriyi knowledge graph’e çeviriyor, agent kararlarını kaydediyor ve sonradan “bu kararı neden verdi?” sorusunun izini sürebiliyorsun. Context Graph + Decision Intelligence + provenance + deterministic reasoning. x.com

    via bakigul @bakigulai

  39. CULTURE & OTHER

    not deploying to prod on every merge is borderline psychotic x.com

    via cole murray @colemurray

  40. STARTUPS & MONEY

    Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent x.com

    via Kenton Varda @KentonVarda

  41. AI & AGENTS

    Just shipped HermesOffice — an open-source office suite (Word, Sheets, Slides, PDF) where the AI is a real agent running 100% on your machine. No cloud account. No third-party proxy. The assistant that edits your documents is the same agent that knows your files, your memory, x.com

    via Gustavo Caetano @gustavocaetano

  42. AI & AGENTS

    levels of slavery from least to most brutal: - forced laborer in 1770 France - chattel slave in 1860 USA - silver mine slave in 400 BCE Athens - - - gpt-5.6's subagent in 2026: x.com

    via mteam.gwei @mteamisloading

  43. CULTURE & OTHER

    Exa is now one of the largest indexes in the world. We serve 80B pages, track 1.4T urls, and are on track to be Google-scale in early 2027. It's difficult to know the size of indexes, but we estimate Google to be ~1T, Bing to be ~500B, and Yandex ~200B. Brave mentioned in x.com

    via Will Bryk @WilliamBryk

  44. CULTURE & OTHER

    Where you been all my life microsoft.github.io

    via Hrishi @hrishioa

  45. AI & AGENTS

    ‘Service-as-a-software’ is here... We moved our entire company brain to GitHub and wired 25+ tools through MCPs. Any one of our 20+ team members can now spin up a contextualized AI assistant in seconds. The system has 5 layers: 1. Markdown company OS ↳ SOPs and campaign x.com

    via Fivos Aresti @fivosaresti

  46. AI & AGENTS

    An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science. We believe it will be a major step for scientific reasoning. openai.com

    via Noam Brown @polynoamial

  47. AI & AGENTS

    Semantica is an open-source alternative to the enterprise intelligence layer that Palantir built. It adds context graphs, explainable reasoning, and a permanent audit trail to AI agent operations. github.com

    via Tom Dörr @tom_doerr

  48. AI & AGENTS

    if you've got a new project here's a pitch for you: go instrument tracing from the beginning do it as correctly as you can (ideally the agents will help, but sentry hasnt released the tools yet here and its still rough) you can now answer anything you need about your app. no x.com

    via David Cramer @zeeg

  49. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Most backend interview questions eventually lead to one of these • REST • gRPC • OAuth • Redis • Kafka • Idempotency • Message Queues • CDN • Rate Limiting • Load Balancers • Database Indexing • Sharding • Replication • Circuit Breakers • Webhooks • Connection x.com

    via Umesh Kumar Yadav @Umesh__digital

  50. CULTURE & OTHER

    yeah I'm never going back x.com

    via Hewar @byhewar