Here are a few of the pieces of advice that I shared:

As usual, @hadleywickham has one of the cleanest, simplest, nicest explanations of things: in this case, the relationship between LLMs, harnesses, and agents. Better than a million Medium posts. tidydesign.substack.com/p/wh…

We're looking for engineers to join my team: job-boards.greenhouse.io/pla… It sits at the intersection of Kubernetes controllers, database operations, distributed systems, and developer tooling. A lot of the work is about turning complex database operations into safe, repeatable, automated systems. Work is hard, but rewarding. Engineering is top notch. DM's are open. Please read the position, you know if it's for you or not. We're flexible for extraordinary candidates!

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty. My Take Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course. Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet. Hedgie🤗

Brent is a very thoughtful person and I think this is a very nice essay. ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/fo…

i'm actually dead now 💀

"They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights." "Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?" "The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"

SIG Node is looking for Kubernetes contributors to join us as SIG Node v1.37 KEP Wranglers. This will be a great opportunity for existing Kubernetes contributors to work closely with KEP development process of SIG Node. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Bye #Helsinki !

🌟 Today, we are releasing Google’s open source distributed agent runtime. Agent Executor (AX) is a general purpose runtime and aims to solve dynamic scheduling, resumption, auto recovery, auditing, and trajectory branching from kernel snapshots in agentic workloads.

The Darwin Server / Core OS team I work with at Apple is hiring in Cupertino, CA. Looking for strong experience with UNIX/Linux systems and building OS infrastructure for cloud computing. Great team, interesting work. DM me if interested. jobs.apple.com/en-us/details…

Our interview on Oxide and Friends is finally online! Enjoy, and flame away. (-: oxide-and-friends.transistor…

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

Should have been "Watch Portugal in Portugal" on the right :)

BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ESMFold in NYC Llama 1 in Paris. Llama 2 in Paris NYC SV DeepSeek in Hangzhou Plus: DINO in Paris JEPA in Montréal Paris NYC SV is 3 mos ahead on topics SV is singularly obsessed with.

a recent New Yorker reject that kinda sums up America for me these days

hate to say it, but everyone that rejects kubernetes inevitably ends up recreating it from first principles lol