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Community Wisdom 198

Did you think RSI stopped at model training?

Models keep absorbing the harness into their weights — soon, it will be a harness for human attention rather than for the model.

Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.

Yes, we’re confused too.

Asana completed a testing framework migration in two weeks, that they would have delayed for years more, and they’re not alone. Also: AI startups could make Gartner much less relevant, and more

Every lab CEO is on X now

Addy Osmani shares lessons from 14 years at Google and how AI agents are reshaping software engineering, developer workflows, and the skills engineers need to succeed.

the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels

Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.

Watch now | 🎙️ I tested Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and Grok 4.6 head-to-head against my favorite models and ranked them on the Claire Index: here's what actually moved the needle

Trend: more CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are walking away from their high-status, in-demand positions. There are many reasons, mostly related to AI, and to "founder mode"

Where product managers, engineers, designers, and growth/marketing professionals discover high-quality open roles at tech companies

No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.

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Listen now | OpenAI’s head of product design on why this is the best time in history to be a designer, where humans still beat AI, and how to escape the overwhelm

Community Wisdom 197

Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses.

The social media giant is offering $1M+ retainer equity grants to staff who are leaving: and even this is not effective. Also: is Grok Bot the “OpenClaw moment” for managed AI agents?

Congrats to the team!

Down, but not out!

AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet

In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI. In 2026, it's not, anymore. With Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb.

Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet

Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.

A shift from a focus on latency to building better AI models, owning the full stack from applications to building custom hardware, very different incentives to most tech companies in play, and more

Three founder archetypes—and how to turn your origin story into a communications strategy

a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!

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Listen now | 🎙️ Grace Clarke rebuilt her service business in Claude, turning 20 hours of weekly admin into one automated pipeline for proposals, client tracking, and email

Listen now | Cursor’s Adam Ward on “funnel of doom” hiring, treating every hire like an executive search, and why caring is the biggest unfair advantage in recruiting

Community Wisdom 196

a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes

The Inference Inflection is HEATING up.

The end of an era.

Watch now | 🎙️ I used Vercel Eve agents and Codex to build Merge Mommy: a PR review bot that scores risk, auto-approves the easy ones, and pings me in Slack for the rest

A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate

An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.

Qwen is so back!

Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know for autoregressive and diffusion engineering.

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Watch now | 🎙️ChatGPT Voice now manages multiple threads, reads your screen, and runs background tasks, and Nick Baumann walks me through the whole workflow live

Listen now | Tom Verrilli explains why fewer, more senior PMs doing real IC work outperform any ratio-driven org structure

Community Wisdom 195

apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.

Distillation is all you need!

AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.

a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.

Hillel Wayne explains why formal methods like TLA+ matter, how they help build reliable software, and whether AI will finally bring formal verification into the mainstream.

The Big Pause is coming.