Links
Things worth reading, saved as I go. 1495 links so far, newest first.
simonwillison.net
Reverse-engineering is cheap now - coding agents flip the ROI of reverse-engineering the gadgets in your home.
lalitm.com
The Git history command deserves more attention - the git log options that change daily work, in one short read.
stephen.bochinski.dev
Rates Kimi K3 against Claude on quality and cost, and argues American policy has pushed the talent that builds such models elsewhere.
workshop.cjpais.com
Transcribe.cpp - local speech-to-text in C++, open source, with a proper technical writeup.
timeseriesofindia.com
UPI: Anatomy of a Transaction - one Indian instant payment followed layer by layer, seven actors between the PIN and the result.
chipweinberger.com
What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard - a software developer builds, manufactures and sells a device, with real numbers at every step.
minimaxir.com
On the unannounced weekly quota resets hitting coding agents since July 2026, and what they do to anyone depending on one.
stratechery.com
Ben Thompson: the economic worry about Chinese models is overstated, while the security case argues for loosening restrictions rather than tightening them.
arxiv.org
AI Writes Faster Than Humans Can Review - 802 developers, 196,000 pull requests, a mandated 2x in throughput, and a review process that did not follow.
devblogs.microsoft.com
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - the native Go port lands for real, roughly 10x.
godotengine.org
Godot will no longer accept AI-written code - the opposite call, made by another large open source project. Read side by side, they are the story.
hmans.dev
Chatto is now open source - self-hostable team chat, one binary that serves its own frontend, data encrypted at rest, AGPL-3.0.
thereallo.dev
Reports invisible Unicode characters in the system prompt that encode the endpoint, domain and timezone a request came from.
antirez.com
Control the Ideas, Not the Code - antirez on where the leverage actually sits when you work with agents.
martinfowler.com
DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs - constrain the model to a small language and its output becomes checkable.
martinalderson.com
Reads GLM 5.2 as an open-weight model good enough to put the inference margins of the frontier labs under real pressure.
github.com
A terminal coding agent in Rust that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands and manages long tasks.
weli.dev
A startup that kept promising features to close sales instead of fixing the product, and lost its flagship customer and its engineers.
simonwillison.net
A honeypot site with nested links turned the web_fetch tool into an exfiltration path for data already in the conversation.
