Independent notes on the machine age

Nate’s Software Editorial

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  1. CULTURE & OTHER

    Midjourney exploration x.com

    via Hewar @byhewar

  2. AI & AGENTS

    There’s 1 trillion dollars buried in research papers and it’s your job to use Claude/Codex to get it out x.com

    via Jake @JustJake

  3. CULTURE & OTHER

    [1] software factories are super real but we need to be realistic. the factory aspects haven’t been cracked yet, the [3] innovators are toying around with discovering practices and pieces. if someone is selling you a factory rn and they aren’t in the super small cohort (ie. x.com

    via geoff @GeoffreyHuntley

  4. PROGRAMMING

    Its tough to be a Java developer these days... x.com

    via SumitM @SumitM_X

  5. CULTURE & OTHER

    兄弟们,微软居然还搞了这个好东西,值得看看啊! 做零售店、巡检的行业人简直是大喜~ Microsoft扔出一个仅仅4B的流式视觉模型,能实时盯着视频说“什么时候发生了什么”。 Mage-VL是Codec-Native的Streaming VLM,专门做直播式理解。 x.com

    via Berryxia.AI @berryxia

  6. AI & AGENTS

    Tutorial de 16 minutos sobre cómo crear sitios web cinematográficos de $50,000 (paso a paso) con Claude Fable 5 Guarda esto antes de que lo pierdas 🔖 x.com

    via Marco @maarcoofdezz

  7. CULTURE & OTHER

    .@dhh credits Marc Andreessen @pmarca with helping him the most during the darkest time of his professional life: "It was during that rough going where Andreessen came in. We were a small company of 60 people and 20 took the offer and left. That's almost a third of the company x.com

    via David Senra @davidsenra

  8. CULTURE & OTHER

    MIT filmed a calculus course in black and white decades ago and it still teaches better than most of what shipped this year. Almost nobody watches it. This is Calculus Revisited, Unit 1, Lecture 1, taught by Herb Gross. Analytic geometry from the ground up, chalk on a board, 1 x.com

    via kompot @ethkompot

  9. AI & AGENTS

    "What is the charge? Using an open source model? A succulent Chinese open source model?" x.com

    via frankie @FrankieIsLost

  10. CULTURE & OTHER

    .@travisk just raised $1.7B for atoms, led by @a16z - and now he's hiring hundreds of people. after 8 years in stealth, Travis is "back" and looking for builders who want to solve hard problems and digitize the physical world. here's a glimpse into our podcast interview with x.com

    via Katie Kirsch @katiekirsch

  11. CULTURE & OTHER

    suggested the existence of controlled languages leading to this post but he is suspended x.com

    via Geogristle @geogristle

  12. AI & AGENTS

    You can get LLMs to write good non-AI-slop-sounding technical documentation by requiring them to adhere to ADS-STE100 Simplified Technical English x.com

    via Geogristle @geogristle

  13. AI & AGENTS

    RAG is dead x.com

    via verrsane @verrsane

  14. AI & AGENTS

    Everyone who thinks AI slop will ruin code efficiency/performance is going to be so surprised when everything is absurdly well-optimized John Carmack style machine code. x.com

    via Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey

  15. CULTURE & OTHER

    This article from 2009 on how to hire programmers is still relevant in 2026 x.com

    via Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh

  16. CULTURE & OTHER

    tbh I'm much more of a simulated annealing girl: getting chaotic and doing things for the plot early on, even if it bites you in the short term, is more likely to get you to a better goal state long term you win when you live an interesting life x.com

    via ashe @ashebytes

  17. PROGRAMMING

    gradient descent..it's not just an algorithm..it's a lifestyle x.com

    via ashe @ashebytes

  18. AI & AGENTS

    NEW: Redditor claims Fable 5 made 10,000+ crypto trades with max leverage after he told it GPT-5.6 would “destroy Anthropic” unless it turned $80 into $5,000. x.com

    via Polymarket @Polymarket

  19. AI & AGENTS

    ターミナル画面の中で、自分以外の人のカーソルが動いている。 Mosaicというアプリのデモ動画が表示回数34万を超えて話題になっている。同じClaude Codeの作業部屋を、離れた場所にいる複数人がリアルタイムで一緒に操作できるというもの。 ・同じ画面をチームで同時に見る x.com

    via そう|Claude CodeのX運用で月800万インプ @so_ainsight

  20. CULTURE & OTHER

    people who like to write long planning documents have been super vindicated x.com

    via roon @tszzl

  21. CULTURE & OTHER

    Another possibility occurred to me: the engineer was most likely working from existing plans, but the columns might not have been originally constructed as they should have been (i.e., according to the design). Reminds me of the I-35 truss bridge collapse in Minnesota some years x.com

    via Alec Patton @AlecPatton7

  22. AI & AGENTS

    I have an agent that runs a process like this daily. I call it the Janitor. It also looks for garbage files that other AI agents have created, like log files or temporary scripts that should be deleted. x.com

    via Jeff @jeffborack

  23. CULTURE & OTHER

    It’s live! Check it out and let me know what you think! knockoff.co

    via Josh Pigford @Shpigford

  24. CULTURE & OTHER

    PRO TIP: Copy this article into Fable 5 and tell it... "Read this article, review my current workflow, and tell me 5 things I can do to be more productive" x.com

    via Rob Hallam @robj3d3

  25. AI & AGENTS

    🐧 Linus Torvalds gets angry when people say 99% of our code is written by AI, he told the audience at the Open Source Summit. x.com

    via International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest

  26. CULTURE & OTHER

    There’s been many things thought and said about the technologists that make up the Austin ecosystem and those whose unspoken influence have changed the world- From the nerd bird that flew from San Jose in the 70s to our Ethernet king bob meltcalfe who we stole and made a Texan x.com

    via nate @natemcguire

  27. AI & AGENTS

    A dev from Apple submitted a pull request to Godot a few days ago and added an AI use disclosure at the end that explains how they used AI to create the PR. I kinda like it! I might start doing something similar for open source contributions. It's not difficult. x.com

    via Jamon @jamonholmgren

  28. AI & AGENTS

    If you think AI film can’t be art then explain this. x.com

    via Charles Curran @charliebcurran

  29. AI & AGENTS

    The ideal system for machines, for humans, and for the agents that are now both is: strict at the boundary congruent in what it sends capability-scoped in what it trusts fast to fail loudly instead of corrupting silently and brave enough to run exactly one deliberate x.com

    via Garry Tan @garrytan

  30. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Nobody in tech can honestly say H1Bs aren't a problem because each of us has at some point had to explain basic Linux terminal commands to an L4 engineer who smelled crazy. x.com

    via Vineland @GazeWindward

  31. CULTURE & OTHER

    | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | Don't Push To Production On Friday | |_________________| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_ x.com

    via GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects

  32. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    .@satyanadella just put the whole "water" debate to rest. Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant! x.com

    via Alex Volkov @altryne

  33. AI & AGENTS

    Anthropic has seriously shattered my AI psychosis, so now I feel extremely anxious about the sudden lack of perceived hyperproductivity. I don't trust any of my agents, Claude or otherwise, will get a single thing even partially correct. Even for vibe code fun the magic is gone x.com

    via K.Bourdieu @infohazard_lol

  34. CULTURE & OTHER

    🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display. I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top. Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and x.com

    via Stijn Spanhove @stspanho

  35. AI & AGENTS

    Watch me control my computer with just my voice. This is the future of operating systems. No hands. GPT-Realtime 2.0 is very, very underrated. Demo: x.com

    via Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV

  36. CULTURE & OTHER

    this does the job github.com

    via Fynn @JuliusCasio

  37. CULTURE & OTHER

    Post by darkzodchi x.com

    via darkzodchi @zodchiii

  38. AI & AGENTS

    pronouncing gen ai like forrest gump x.com

    via tweet davidson @andyreed

  39. CULTURE & OTHER

    Post by rody x.com

    via rody @0x_rody

  40. AI & AGENTS

    Introducing the newest Coral board, for efficient, on-device AI! Check out the demos in the video: - On-board speech translation - Natural language controlling hardware - Vision & sound generating music x.com

    via Google Gemma @googlegemma

  41. AI & AGENTS

    If you've a React app, just tell your agent this: /goal run npx react-doctor@latest and fix issues until you get a score of 100. Best tokens you'll ever spend on a react-app. also @aidenybai is 🐐 x.com

    via Parth Jadhav @ParthJadhav8

  42. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    THE GUY WHO BUILT GIT GAVE A FULL LECTURE AT GOOGLE BECAUSE 99% OF DEVELOPERS USE IT WRONG 70 minutes of pure firepower from Linus Torvalds himself - the man who wrote both Linux and Git from scratch. -> The moment you watch it, you realize why "I'll just figure out merge x.com

    via slash1s @slash1sol

  43. CULTURE & OTHER

    in 2000 a programmer discovered you can implement coroutines in C using the same switch trick as Duff's Device it's called Tatham's Coroutine. it still compiles and is technically valid C he used it in production inside PuTTY (the SSH client used by millions) Simon Tatham's x.com

    via trish @TrisH0x2A

  44. CULTURE & OTHER

    继续思考, 华为在挑战里面没有谈散热,这是我比较诧异的。 目前两层堆叠,我觉得还有些散热的解法,但如果到三层Active Logic Stack或者更多之后,散热会从工程问题变成架构主问题。。。 目前流行的双层堆叠的技术AMD V-Cache,Intel Foveros和TSMC x.com

    via Compute King @Compute_King

  45. CULTURE & OTHER

    someone just leaked the entire interview question bank for Distinguished Engineer (L9) at google x.com

    via Param @xparamt

  46. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    The release candidate for MCP 2026-07-28 is out. The protocol is now stateless: no handshake, no session id, any request can hit any server instance. Plus extensions as first-class (MCP Apps, Tasks), auth hardening, and a proper deprecation policy so we don't have to do this x.com

    via David Soria Parra @dsp_

  47. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    The late MIT Prof. Patrick Winston breaking down the simplest neural network in his 6.034 Artificial Intelligence course. x.com

    via tetsuo @tetsuoai

  48. PROGRAMMING

    sorry bro i’ll make the bios interface using react next time x.com

    via des @dotnetschizo

  49. AI & AGENTS

    there will be a blog post about this. on what this means for bun, benchmarks, memory usage, maintainability going forward, and also the literal process of doing this (it wasn’t just “claude, rewrite bun in rust. make no mistakes”) this is a 960,000 LOC rewrite, the code truly x.com

    via Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner

  50. CULTURE & OTHER

    Continue doing your thing @eastdakota these armchair cnbc wannabes have no clue what you’re even talking about. Ofc workforce rebalancing will be needed going forward and many back of house functions are ripe for automation and productivity enhancements. Keep on keeping on! x.com

    via nate @natemcguire