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What exactly does “thinking” mean? “Thinking harder”? Robin says: prospecting new analogies; sending your inquiry out away from the gravitational attractors of protocol and cliché; turning the workpiece around to inspect it from new angles; and especially bringing more senses into the mix." And, also that it is silent. We even have a phrase that shows the exception that makes the rule: “thinking out-loud.” Playing D&D with LLMs surfaces how different “thinking” is for AIs.

Quick and crude SVG battle maps for D&D can be efficiently generated using Claude, enhancing solo roleplaying without slowing down gameplay.

That title says it all. There are two people I think of here: Tyler Cowen is eternally optimistic. He may say he doesn’t like something or he thinks something is “not the best it could be,” but he’s rarely “negative,” and never bitter. James Watters, despite a rough couple of decades for PaaS (his life’s work) is eternally optimistic. He only talks about positive things and potential, not bitterness about rival technologies.

Meanwhile, humans are still making good Internet videos. 🔗 ✺ CHANNELVUE

‘“The availability of AI devices has also boosted overall spending by more than $30 billion,” Lovelock said. “With the replacement cycle unchanged, the stronger performance in 2025 will result in a lower relative growth rate for 2026, as demand has been pulled forward."’ 🔗 Global IT spend to exceed $6 trillion in 2026

Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project. 🔗 Coming in the next versions of Sora

Does it seem right that computer systems that use billions of dollars of hardware, electricity, and clean water need my help to add line numbers to a few kilobytes of plain text? No, it does not. But at least this gives me deterministic results for one part of the processing. Recently, though, I’ve observed that Claude Skills are interestingly clever on the command line. Maybe agentic just means “can use Unix pipes.

A lot of effort went into making this effortless. 🔗 Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering, Peter Steinberger

Instead of: “Why the ‘free’ version of [INSERT OPEN CORE PRODUCT NAME] could be your most expensive mistake.” A variant: “[INSERT OPEN SOURCE PROJECT] is complex and difficult to secure.” Try: “why these pay-for features will make you awesome and solve shitty problems you toil away at every day.”