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The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends
Our AI tooling survey finds concerns about mounting AI costs, more engineers hitting usage limits, and AI tools having uneven effects upon different types of engineers
Orban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness
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Open Thread 429
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What I learned this week - Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails
April 15, 2025
Hasan Piker is bad for the Democrats
Republicans embraced extremist ideology and it backfired on them. Democrats shouldn't follow suit.
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Listen now | Nikhyl Singhal on why half of product managers are at risk, how to cross the reinvention threshold, and why the next two years will be chaotic for PMs
The Monthly Salon: April
Talk about anything you like
You are what you consume
Personal identity should come from the things we get to choose for ourselves.
Not all AI agents are created equal
A framework for categorizing and prioritizing your agent initiatives
We should plan for success
Cities shouldn’t just settle for “enough” housing.
Nothing ever dies. It merely becomes embarrassing.
OR: the Halo theory of science
🎙️ This week on How I AI: Claude Cowork tutorial for non-engineers + Build your own Slack inbox (for $0)
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
Backwards Looking
Making sense of oil prices during times of war.
America needs more statues
Let's think less about who to tear down and more about what to build
It’s not “bad marketing” from A.I. companies
Plus progressive mayors, Vice President Henry Clay, and how Trump could be impeached
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
TSM ASML JNJ MS GS PEP ABT SCHW BLK
🧠 Community Wisdom: Sharing Claude Code skills across the org, Why did lennysjobs.com shut down, opening an LLC for side work, AI for SMB sales, and more
Community Wisdom 182
MAGA Maoism
The Cultural Revolution and The Culture War
Blues Legend Robert Johnson Like You've Never Heard Him Before
I'm recommending these 12 new YouTube videos
How Hungarian Voters Overcame One of the World's Most Sophisticated Disinformation Machines
An important case study
A Guide to Relational Database Design
In this article, we cover the core concepts that inform those decisions. We’ll look at tables, keys, relationships, normalization, and joins, with each concept building on the last.
The Discipline of Showing Up
What a dinner with Martin Yan reminded me about persistence, service, and impact.
Slow Doesn’t Mean You’re Doing It Wrong
What 15 Months of Uneven Progress Taught Me About Building Things that Last
20 Ideas to Grow New Communities
Urbanism, art, sex, dating, religion, incentives, monuments, influencers, and more
🍿 Netflix: Life After Warner
The growth story shifts to ads and pricing power
My most right-wing views
Human nature, law and order (if only they applied it to Trump’s cronies ...), and capitalism
Don’t Let Big Tech Hide Behind a Rainbow Flag
Lennon Torres on why social media regulation is a prerequisite for LGBTQ safety.
The profoundly weird race for Rookie of the Year
Dramatic late twists, stats versus vibes — and another test of what prediction markets really measure.
The Promotion Tax Nobody Talks About
Why “always on” wins in competitive cultures — and your 3 real options
Destroy the internet to save it?
Jerusalem and I debate internet anonymity
Trading Post Wednesday April 15, 2026
Software & Payments, Chocolate & Peanut Butter
Wawer: How Polish Punks Sabotaged Nazi Occupiers
History has so much to teach us.
Lies, Damned Lies and Economic Vibes
The continuing mystery of feel-bad economics
Trump Can't Even Surrender Right
That was the peace that was
Trump Wants Regime Change at the Fed
He still thinks he's infallible
Flashing Orange
A cheat sheet for a potential European natural gas crisis.
EP211: How the JVM Works
We compile, run, and debug Java code all the time. But what exactly does the JVM do between compile and run?
The Dirtiest Dog
Ten hours on a Greyhound with a few ex-cons, and one very complicated woman
Curing U.S. Health Care, Part I
America doesn’t have to be like this
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
… which will probably be the shortest-lived trend because it’s so wasteful. Also: coding AI agent subsidies could be ending, Cal.com going closed source and blaming it on AI, and more.
Markets Tour Tickets are Live!
See you in SF, LA, Miami, Chicago, and NYC.
How You Can Take Trillions From War Criminals and the Corporations Dismantling Democracy
Don't just vote with your dollar. Vote with all of our dollars.
Moonshot
Boldly going farther
Holy Wars
The Pope and the President are beefing: but it's not really about religion, or Iran
Magical systems thinking - Works in Progress Magazine
Systems thinking promises to give us a toolkit to design complex systems that work from the ground up. It fails because it ignores that systems fight back.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary
Democracy wins big
It Has Begun. An ICE Agent is Finally Being Charged.
Things are changing. It's not a murder charge but it's some damn important progress.
Did Streaming Subscription Prices Just Hit the Wall?
Consumers have learned three winning strategies for defeating subscription fatigue.