2026-09 - W2

Building Agent Skills: Intent, Determinism, and Stability – The Living Deadline

learningto/pass - Google Interview Prep, Visually

Nice interactive website to prepare interviews.

Bodily Oddities: strange things the human body does

That’s interesting.

AI models and providers | Sulat

Sulat demos

Wow.

How my students think about AI

Interesting perspectives.

• Perspective #1: There has not been rapid AI progress
• Perspective #2: Impressive progress or not, AI is going to wreck their lives, the economy, and the social contract. They may well die as a result.
• Perspective #3: Support for a different pause
• Perspective #4: Catastrophic/existential risk arguments are sci-fi distractors from the urgent social/economic/political problems associated with AI.
• Perspective #5: If AI leaders genuinely believe the technology is existentially risky, that’s a good thing.
• Perspective #6: AI will not go rogue because AI does not have, and is likely incapable of having, desires.
• Perspective #7: The Hugging Face Incident (summer students only)
• Perspective #8: This is definitely a bubble and it’s about to pop.
• Perspective #9: They’re worried about the youth (i.e., the preteens)

Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | Databricks Blog

Fuck it, make it anyway | Joel Auterson

Through chatting to Shad I came to realise there are only really three paths open to me. I can start using generative AI to feel like I’m “keeping up” or “competing”, but then I won’t enjoy the work. I could stop making things entirely, but as any creative person will know that’s never really an option. Or, I can keep making things the way I enjoy, keep learning, keep doing it the hard way, for no real concrete reason other than I want to do it. That’s why we make games. That’s why we make anything.

Coding is over. Get over it. ριтєя мαяχ

Software development IS NOT CODING so I’m still hopeful about the future of my profession. AI will certainly be a “better than average” programmer. The baseline will be much higher. Everyone needs to skill-up to stay relevant.

My concern for the near future is that it is possible that the jobs that AI is taking first are the ones that were entry level positions, where you’d go to actually learn the trade. Learning will start to be something you must want to do, and work hard towards. To my children I’ll try to make them knowledgeable all around, knowing both the hard and the soft sciences. History as well as biology. Philosophy as well as math.

I like ‘em thick - by Adam Mastroianni

But this is an illusion. The ideas are not already good. They need to be thickened. I understand why it’s tempting to force a machine do the hard part for you, but it can’t, and the hard part is the only part worth doing anyway. Making something thick—that’s a lot of pressure! But remember: you were built to perform under pressure, and that’s just what you’ll do.

RTK reports huge token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree - Quesma Blog

It appears RTK does not save money after all. Thankfully, it’s been a long time since I removed it from my workflow.

Get The Most Out of Virtual Threads in Java 25 -A Deep Dive into the Latest Achievements of Virtual - YouTube

Excellent presentation and demo about virtual threads.