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Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham
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Introducing Plan A
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The Pragmatic Engineer AMA
In this AMA episode, Gergely Orosz answers listener questions on AI, engineering, hiring, and careers.
Open Thread 442
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What is “loop engineering?”
There’s talk about loop engineering, but what is it exactly? I looked into it, and found triggers, cron jobs, AI slop & more. Is it a “here today, gone tomorrow” trend?
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity
Listen now | Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on the new product team structure in 2026, the rise of the “product staff” role, and the hiring traits that matter most today
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
Listen now | The great tech bifurcation: half the workforce is thriving, half is struggling, and burnout just hit a record high
MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks
The engine that powered history's greatest nation is in danger.
Sources and Methods
Propaganda and the energy war between Russia and Ukraine.
I have never been working class
Unlike some American elites, I actually understand this fact.
The promise and peril of an abundance faction
Plus Platner, the Costco economy, and some inexplicable internet beefs
The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
The American suburbs are better than you think
They're not my personal cup of tea, but there are good reasons people like them.
🎙️ How I AI: GPT-5.6 review, How a solo builder runs 24/7 local AI, and What an agent harness is and how to build one
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
In job interviews, keep your backstory short
Use the STAR method, but avoid backstory scope creep.
Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI
Good news, for once.
Fannie, Freddie, Trump & the Housing Crisis
A CUSIP by CUSIP Examination of the Health of the Twins' & Their Most Risky Business
Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets
How "termites" are undermining financial stability
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
PEP DAL GIS
🧠 Community Wisdom: Negative network effects, managing overconfident colleagues, developers sidestepping design decisions, keeping stakeholder meetings on track, and more
Community Wisdom 193
How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
To understand what it actually takes to ship agents at that scale, we spoke with Marco Casalaina, VP of Products for Microsoft Core AI.
Rigging the 2026 Election
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Hostilities
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
The Moral Case for Small Business | #107
Revisiting a classic
July 10, 2026
Presumably afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J.
Short & Thankful: 300
Cassandra Unchained's community is today 300,00 subscribers strong.
July 11, 2026
Last night the Department of Justice subpoenaed reporters from the New York Times over a story the newspaper published on Wednesday.
July 12, 2026
The United States is currently in the grip of an outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea and has sickened more than 3,000 people across the U.S.
July 13, 2026
Today began with yet another demonstration of the fact that the U.S.
The 10 Greatest Failures of Orson Welles
Sometimes misses are as important as hits
How crushing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism and more
Two articles I cowrote in the latest issue of Works in Progress
Is The USA "Too Big to Fail"?
Level 2 - Value Investor
What the Fourteenth Amendment Protects
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Better Call Sol The Workhorse
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.
Threats Dismissed
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Pseudpocalypse
Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself.
12 questions for the center-left
The center-left offers an alternative to both the left and the Democratic “establishment.” But it’s losing influence — and struggling to define itself.
AI in an Age of Oligarchy
Why extreme inequality will magnify the social, political and economic downside of technology
Oligarchy in Action: The Case of Corporate Tax Cuts
How big money trumps the people’s will — and how to reclaim democracy
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[Abridged Version] Fannie, Freddie, Trump & the Housing Crisis
A CUSIP by CUSIP Examination of the Health of the Toxic Twins’ and Their Most Risky Business
How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)
In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).
Why Did We Let Big Tech Take Over Education?
Sophie Winkleman lays out the damage from the screen-based school day and shows how to roll it back.
Estonia Won the War on Fentanyl. What Came Next Was Even Worse.
EP221: How Docker Works Under the Hood
A Docker container starts with a single command, but that command has to be turned into a running Linux process. Here is what actually happens.
Fury
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Artificial Bloom
Rare earths, short sellers, and Chinese competition
What the Research Says About Remote Work and Your Career (ft. Stanford Economist Nick Bloom)
Why remote work may have killed the entry-level job, part 2.
Chartbook 458 Postscript - A conversation with Barnaby Raine about politics, economics, continuities of violence and hyper-agency.
“…there’s a lot of talk today about rupture, because there’s a sense that five hundred years of Western hegemony are coming unstuck.” (Barnaby Raine)
Week Seven in 250 to 250
This was the seventh week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Suddenly, Hormuz is Less Crucial Than It Was
Why? Because the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war