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Political Backflow From Europe
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What Happened With Bio Anchors?
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AMA (Ask Machines Anything)
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Updated thoughts on AI risk
Things have gotten scarier since 2023.
Open Thread 420
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Roundup #77: The Fix-Everything Button
BART fare gates; AI and jobs, again; Tariffs and trade deficits; Jon Stewart vs. the economists; H-1Bs; Japan's fiscal position
The Takaichi Era begins for real
Japan is leaving its pacifist era behind. That creates some interesting economic opportunities.
How technology has already changed the world in my lifetime
A timely repost.
You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth
The coming of AI means that humanity's destiny is (mostly) out of our hands.
Can Democrats escape their Florida death spiral?
Why the Sunshine State is no longer a swing state.
The singularity won't be gentle
If AI is even half as transformational as Silicon Valley assumes, politics will never be the same again.
Don’t let Elon Musk monopolize space compute
A case for more antitrust enforcement
Americans think everyone is corrupt
Voters have weird views about this, and progressive advocacy groups do a lot that’s counterproductive.
DoorDash and the dilemma of affluence
A more prosperous America is also a less thrifty America, with mixed results.
Writers Against AI
Choose your story. Take your stand.
Building AI product sense, part 2
A weekly ritual to help you understand and design trustworthy AI products for a messy world
Gavin Newsom’s electoral track record is bad
Plus cooking, the Wizards, the auto industry, and Trump’s threat to the election
“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu
OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu on why the productivity gap is widening, how his engineers now manage 10-20 parallel agents, and why you need to build for where models are heading
Kamala Harris has Liz Cheney Syndrome
Centrists think Harris is a leftist, and leftists think she’s a centrist. But she’s not the only candidate with this sort of problem.
The liberal case for the Olympics
Root for Team U.S.A., don’t let Trump own the flag
Steve Yegge on AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering
Steve Yegge on the 8 levels of AI adoption, why big companies may be doomed, and why he and many AI-adopters feel drained from using agents non-stop
A Guide to Surviving the Great Forgetting: How to (re)train your memory
For those of you who prefer to read off paper rather than the screen, we have converted the post into an easily printable pdf file here.
Netanyahu Visits Trump for the Seventh Time Amid More Threats of a U.S. Attack on Iran
Will the U.S. Government base its policies toward Iran on its own interests, or fight a pointless but costly war against Israel's prime enemy in the Middle East?
Demographic Destiny - USA and Abroad
Level 2 - Value Investor
Welcome Back to Substack!
I’m excited to return to the free speech platform that enabled my independent journalism to thrive, and that has since grown in so many ways.
Brian Halligan
Listen now | From HubSpot to Sequoia: Brian Halligan on scaling, leadership, AI, hiring mistakes, and the crisis that changed his life
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin
Andrey Breslav, creator of Kotlin and founder of CodeSpeak, shares lessons from designing Kotlin and why he’s building a new language to keep humans in control in the age of AI.
🎙️ This week on How I AI: How to build your own AI developer tools with Claude Code
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny's Podcast Network
EP202: MCP vs RAG vs AI Agents
Everyone is talking about MCP, RAG, and AI Agents. Most people are still mixing them up.
How Much Cognitive Damage Does A Phone Notification Actually Do?
New Research Reveals The Hidden Cost Of Our Most Persistent Distraction. It's Worse Than You Think.
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
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ChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At Coding
OpenAI is back with a new Codex model, released the same day as Claude Opus 4.6.
Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies
Yascha Mounk and Daniel Diermeier examine how elite institutions created the backlash that now threatens their future.
Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs?
A wonkish guide for the confused
Market Update Scenarios, Up in a Down Market and More
Level 4 - Turbo Autist
All This Has Happened in Just the Last 15 Days...
This isn't the future. It's happening now. And you can't afford to ignore it.
🧠 Community Wisdom: How PMs are using AI coding tools, implementing reverse free trials, distinguishing yourself as a product manager vs. project manager, pricing your consulting work, and more
Community Wisdom 173
Zaid Jilani On How The Dems Can Win
Well, kinda. He didn't exactly cheer me up. Listen now on the Dishcast.
I'm Offering Scott Alexander a Wager About AI's Effects Over the Next Three Years
because that's the only way to get anybody to take skepticism seriously anymore
Tiny Triumphs
Sites online have posts about the genius trick that ...
Columbus: Shipwreck and the Mission from God
The Final Voyage and Death of Christopher Columbus
Time to Prune! You've Got Too Much of a Good Thing
Why Overwhelm Is a Sign of Growth—And How to Delegate Your Way Out
The Neo-Hanseatic League
A Network of Cities
The Seen, the Unseen, War, and Peace
Caplan and Candor
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
The President Of The 0.00001 Percent
Time to end the new Gilded Age. The way we did the last one.
AI Encroachment, First RE Update and More
Level 4 - Turbo Autist
Under the Ribcage
An HPL Audioplay World Premiere!
Talking Again with Jon Gruber
Immigration, healthcare, and the fate of seniors in America