There's an Amazon Kindle sale on Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, 2nd book in the Rising World series) today for 2.99, US and Canada www.amazon.com/Queen-Demon-... #booksky
An almost aggressively jaded viewpoint comes through the text of that article.
This is a very niche observation, but regarding Apple announcing a bunch of new hardware... thinking we'll see a new Apple TV with a faster processor coinciding with the release of Oceanhorn 3 on the 5th.
I wonder the extent to which Anthropic is able to ask Claude for help diagnosing and resolving the current Claude outage.
do you code goofy or regular?
I really hope you enjoy it!
I did enjoy Generosity. Goldbug shook me both with the book on its own merits and seeing that a person could write that book. It’s a ridiculous display by an author.
A big issue with this is when the agent doesn’t implement what you discussed. You then end up in this situation where a later development relies on something you thought was there, and it turns out it was totally missed. There’s no responsibility on the agent’s side, it’s all on you.
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
Goldbug, though it was my first so perhaps that’s some bias, but it just floored me. Really enjoyed Orfeo and The Overstory, too.
I have a funny relationship with his writing in that I find it almost too powerful for comfort. I’ve read 5 or 6 or so of his books but not all, and the ones I haven’t read I’m not sure I want to!
As much as I think LLM coding assistants can be great aids, it is reaalllly hard to have it not come across as a Tobias take.
Having compiled and run the web browser that Cursor built in a couple of weeks using mostly a giant fleet of coding agents I'm actually very impressed by it - there are rendering glitches but the renders it produces are surprisingly usable for a few-week-old project simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/...
Mario Kart World seems to have a weirdly uncomfortable relationship with its platformer side. Why not make split screen Free Roam less hidden, and why not embrace the THPS influences and make charge jumps easier to activate?
Hard to avoid. You can buy extra usage if it really is a one time thing, but a couple days of not wanting your schedule dictated by that session timeout is remarkably well calibrated to push you to Max.
It may be driving us towards programs that are more amenable to machine verifiable proofs. That’d be a nice outcome!
Related to this article, I wonder about RL training with rewards for successful compilations of generated code that pass tests from inadequate specs. That kind of feedback loop again creates superficial progress at the expense of insidious failure. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-de...
People who dismiss all the recent humanoid #robot demos as being preset choreography or teleop undervalue the advance in having these things balance so well. People who dismiss the choreography and teleop under appreciate the remaining challenges.
I can’t believe this is real, “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)….” www.office.com
Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡
I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Really nice to see so much shared on the Olaf robot: the paper covers physical design considerations and RL behavior training to accommodate physical constraints. arxiv.org/abs/2512.16705
My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
Rob Reiner’s output as a film director is just stunning… “cultural impact” really is the right scale. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
The studio has announced a landmark deal and $1 billion investment with OpenAI to bring hundreds of Disney characters to its generative AI platforms.
People do themselves a disservice when they demand too-simple definitions. The "It's just combining already-known things!" argument is a way of avoiding thornier questions.
