In the news: The sands are shifting
Knowledge workers feeling deeply anxious about the future
For those who are new, I share what I’ve found interesting. Not I am not covering all the AI news. I am the guy who stores links to links in Obsidian note taker, that no one ever sees.
Maybe you find this useful :)
A) Weird shit is happening, and its going to get weirder
Steam, steel and infinite minds: Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds. Ivan Zhou (Notion CEO)
Karpathy feeling behind, plus the ripple. The sands are shifting, Karpathy feels like he’ fallen behind (link)
“AI will kill all the lawyers” (Spectator). A sobering read. “Last week we did an experiment, a kind of simulation. We took a real, recent and important case – a complex civil court appeal which I wrote, and it took me a day and a half. We redacted all identifying details, for anonymity and confidentiality, and we fed the same case to Grok Heavy AI. And then we asked it to do what I did. After some prompting, the end result was…’ He shakes his head. ‘Spectacular. Actually staggering. It did it in 30 seconds, and it was much better than mine. And remember, I am very good at this.”
B) Building with core AI
LLMs under the hood: A BEAUTIFUL video showing how conceptually work. OMG it’s stunning. Welch Labs YouTube
“You’re suddenly knee deep in chunking…” A pragmatic “ship something real fast” thread, aimed at avoiding infrastructure rabbit holes. X (formerly Twitter)
State of agentic iOS engineering in 2026. A snapshot of how mobile dev workflows are mutating. And dev workflows in general. Dimillian
Clémentine Fourrier: LLM Evaluation Guidebook v2. Good reminder that evals are the steering wheel, not an afterthought ngntipkolamrenang.twstalker.com
Continual system prompt learning for code agents. People are starting to treat prompts like evolving infrastructure. X (formerly Twitter)
tldraw: the fairies (agents) are amazing. Multi-agent coordination is a ‘fun’ puzzle to solve. X (formerly Twitter)
C) Greater productivity with AI
How to prompt your Claude Code to keep it going from your phone (with VPN etc) granda.org+1
React Grab CLI: Click in the UI, comment and automatically changes will be implemented agentically. Aiden Bai
Prototyping isn’t thinking. debbiewidjaja.com
Amp: thread maps. Clever feature to navigate your AI coding chats (in Amp). X (formerly Twitter)
<the end. enjoy your coffee, or matcha, or organic freeze thingy whatever>
p.s. Soz for being a couple weeks late. Holidays + sick children + sick wife + sick me.