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Open Thread 437
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Berkeley Meetup This Wednesday
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State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are declining, management’s “great flattening”, and more
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
Listen now | The creator of iPod, iPhone, and Nest on opinion vs. data decisions, why marketing matters, the "three generations" rule behind everything he's shipped, and why AI will still need screens
The Monthly Salon: June
News and conversation
Essential books for product builders—part 2
36 more timeless books that’ll make you a better builder, leader, and person
A fire was in my head
Numb in Northern Ireland
🎙️ How I AI: Gemini Omni: Clone yourself with AI in under 15 minutes & Shopping with Claude
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
Breaking: Google liable for hallucinations
Sorry to bother your mailbox again but this legal decision is potentially huge, especially if it spreads and other countries make similar decisions.
🧠 Community Wisdom: How AI is changing product operating models, tracking work stress with Whoop, whether you need a portfolio of AI side projects, marketing for tiny teams, and more
Community Wisdom 189
Degrowth would make Europeans into "Europoors"
Why Europe must grow.
Breaking: OpenAI is pondering “drastic” price cuts.
And that’s a sign of weakness
The sample efficiency black hole
"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies from liability, after all
An idea inspired by the new German ruling that could turn everything upside down
Roundup #83: I told you so!
Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
5 Career Questions Your Old Playbook Can’t Answer
The higher you climb, the more nuanced the questions get — and the less the old answers fit.
You can’t get more 2026 than that
Hallucination of the day:
What Salesforce Learned from 20,000 Enterprise Agent Deployments
We sat down with John Kucera, Salesforce’s CPO of Agentforce, to learn what separates agents that deliver real business value from those that stall after a good demo.
Breaking news, and how the end might begin
A flashback to my most recent interview with Steve Eisman, and some potentially critical news
Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones?
We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind.
Claude Fable 5 review: what the new Mythos model gets right (and very wrong)
Watch now | 🎙️Early access to Claude Fable 5: what Anthropic claims, what I tested, and my honest take
Breaking news: US Commerce Department effectively shuts down Anthropic’s latest models
After two years of underregulating AI, the US government suddenly takes the nuclear option
June 11, 2026
At 8:22 this morning, Trump posted on social media: “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT.
Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system
A repost from the Noahpinion archive.
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
ORCL ADBE DOCU VAIL CHWY
Trying to Rewrite the Story
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
A Very Big Deal Indeed
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
💡 Why Can't You Get Ahead? (And How to Finally Fix It)
Issue 200
The Fire Next Time
In Britain, the white race riots have begun. Welcome to Europe's future civil wars.
SpaceX IPO Real-Time Reactions
Ed and I are LIVE tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET
Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?
Anthropic’s new model, Fable, has restrictions many users find unacceptable. Also: a new trend of smart model routing, Coinbase’s core service has no automatic cross-zone failover, and more.
Must- Know Deployment Strategies: From Big-Bang to Progressive Delivery
In this article, we’ll go through the main deployment strategies used in production today, looking at how each one works, what it costs, and when it makes sense to use.
From Executive Absence to Executive Presence
4 EQ Skills That Changed Everything
EP218: The Typical AI Agent Stack, Explained
Over to you: Which layer of the stack do you think is the hardest to get right in production?
Trading Post June 12, 2026
The market continues to punish the stocks of large, well-established businesses with significant owners earnings, little debt, and large buybacks, which are accretive to intrinsic value per share at current levels.
Objective Standards Really Do Exist in Music
And the New York Times is caught in the middle of the argument
What’s new in biology: June 2026
The most effective weight-loss drug so far, cancer breakthroughs, gene editing for cholesterol, ancestral CRISPR systems, and more.
The state of play in Maine
The race is a toss-up, or maybe still tilts Platner. But should it even be this close?
⚽️ How FIFA Makes Money
The World Cup turns a non-profit into a $13 billion machine
The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
I talked with engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies, where spending on AI agents is being dampened via per-engineer monthly budgets, or smart model routing efforts to cut costs
Signs of Frustration
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
The Weight
America on GLP-1s
What the Yellow Tie Almost Cost Me
How Dating Has Changed in the World of Apps And What We have Lost
June 10, 2026
Today a report from the Department of Labor showed that inflation in May hit its highest level since early 2023, reaching an annual rate of 4.2%, up from 3.8% in April.
Hidden Open Thread 437.5
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June 12, 2026
Today was the deadline set by Judge Christopher R.
The return of code-first discovery 🔍, exploring vs exploiting 🗺️, outcome-based pricing 💰
The traditional Agile approach - using working code as the primary validation tool - is outdated. Teams should prioritize cheaper
Hard work is good
Plus an Ike-less America, the case for Alex Bores, and basketball globalization
Unlawful Government Action
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.