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God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques
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Royce On San Francisco
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Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux shares how Codex was built and how it’s reshaping software development.
Open Thread 450
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What is happening with code reviews?
AI generates more code than devs can track in 2026, so will the code review process have to adapt – or is it doomed? A look into this decades-old practice and the approaches that could replace it
Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
Declaring victory without a definition simply muddies the waters
BREAKING: Two rays of hope
Pushing for transparency
OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
Nine troubling new reports in seven days
🍸🍟 Astronomia & cosmologia antiga vs. moderna
037 - céu medieval vs. atual, leituras da semana & uma história de amor com o céu🦋💜
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Listen now | Roman Ugarte of SpaceXAI on going from first line of code to the world’s hottest AI product in seven weeks, and what it really takes to win in the most competitive market ever
September 6, 2026
Storm clouds over the horizon looked like mountains last week as I came in from a late afternoon paddle in the kayak.
America is still beating China in the AI race
The U.S. is staying ahead, though the costs of that lead are still unknown.
The Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages
For compute-intensive services: it’s worth reserving more compute now. Also: growth dreams end for more COVID-era unicorns, engineers losing touch with systems when AI handles incidents, and more
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
I believe the time has come
Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration
We need to make a principled stand instead of a tactical retreat.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Anish Acharya on why the permanent-underclass fear is wrong, how every job function becomes a loop, and where consumer AI is headed
No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
AI is already causing harms, there are are many real risks, but constant focus on absurd end-of-the-world fantasies has made the situation worse
Invasion of the “meat proxy” butterfly catchers
They knew it could explode.
The marriage of the sun and the moon
Nothing in this world is superfluous
Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic
Lots to consider
AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs
Happy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable.
Built for Reliability: How American Express Processes Payments at Scale
In this article, we will try to understand how the transaction runs through such a cell-based architecture and how the payments are processed even when some services are failing.
Where Does a Robot Think – On-Device vs Datacenter Inference – On-Device vs Datacenter Inference
Falkland Around
Will Milei impede the formation of a mini-petrostate next door?
The Omarchy Bootcamp is here. How to get started this weekend (and why should you care?)
This is the agentic OS everyone's talking about, what it actually is, and how to get started this weekend.
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”
Culture Becomes a Dark Forest
“Wallfacing” to solve Navier-Stokes
September 10, 2026
We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another chokepoint for world trade including trade in oil.
Bessent and the Bonds
Big talk, but he carries a very small stick
Trump’s terrible plan to break skilled immigration
Improve flawed programs — don’t destroy them.
The economy could survive a downtick in A.I.
Plus what happened to college and what’s wrong with Tucker Carlson
Responsible deployment in K12.
How Lynwood Unified School District and Township High School District 211 pair privacy protections, professional learning, and a clear purpose to prepare faculty and staff to use AI responsibly.
Hell-bent
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
搬家、清洁和“报纸游戏”
家是现场，也是遗迹。
September 9, 2026
Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.
How Smart Model Routing Can Cut LLM Costs by 10X
Cost reduction isn’t a given. It also depends on the types of requests the application receives, the price difference between models, and how well the routing system performs. In this article, we are going to look at various aspects
What is So Hard About Behind-The-Meter Power For Datacenters? Part 1
Dumb Science Experiments vs. Money Printing Machines
2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change
The best Stratechery content from the week of August 24, 2026 including the breaker’s advantage, the new battle for HDMI1, and how data center discourse ends.
Shea Serrano did the math on podcasting. Betting on himself was the winning equation.
Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion are back: inside the numbers and lessons from their first week podcasting on Substack
One Ring to Rule Them All
Oura IPO
The Long Decline of America
It began decades before Trump
Politics Chat, September 10, 2026
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Come Walk With Me
Join me on an Irish pilgrimage; and other coming events
Learn Claude Code, evals, AI systems, and more: ByteByteGo Live is here
Most online courses never get finished (~4% completion). Live cohorts get ~40%, roughly 10x higher. Live courses are the only courses people actually finish. So we’re launching ByteByteGo Live.
A Chokepoint for World Trade
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Congrats, your sales problems in PLG are completely unoriginal
Welcome to PLG Support Group :)
A Guide to Application Networking Basics
In this article, we will look at the various aspects of networking in detail.
The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
Eight different insiders have issued warnings—and you need to hear them out
Self-inflicted Problems
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Nvidia’s Backstop Universe – Heads I Win, Tails Who Loses?
The $11T AI Buildout, Nvidia’s Backstop Economics, and the Limits of Nvidia’s Balance Sheet