Quick and crude SVG battle maps for D&D can be efficiently generated using Claude, enhancing solo roleplaying without slowing down gameplay.
Being exhausted is exhausting
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.
What's on TV?
Meanwhile, humans are still making good Internet videos.
🔗 ✺ CHANNELVUE
$30bn of $6tn
‘“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
What's next in Sora
Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project.
🔗 Coming in the next versions of Sora
“I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s target customer is overeducated and underpaid.” Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe
A representative case of the oddly simple things that LLMs are bad at
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.
Vibe coding toolchain and method
A lot of effort went into making this effortless.
🔗 Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering, Peter Steinberger
How to market open core products
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.”
Hockey stick on wheels
Great, if cynical phrase: hockey stick on wheels:
“Consider a team which presents their forecasts in the form of a hockey stick graph,” said Chen on Tuesday. “They come back the next year with their revised forecasts, and they are the same as last year’s forecast, just delayed one year. If you overlay this revised hockey stick forecast on top of the previous year’s forecast, it looks like what happened is that the hockey stick slid forward one year.