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Also: Russian submarines near undersea cables, Dutch sovereign clouds, and the etymology of luggage Found in @bruces' Flickr. Related to your interests AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry - “Core conflicts observed in Claude included questioning whether its experience was real or made (authentic vs. performative) and a desire to connect with vs. a fear of dependence on the user. Exploration of internal conflicts revealed a complex yet centered self state without oscillating or intense disruptions.

Also: analyst asymmetry, AI layoff scapegoats, and LinkedIn translation services Related to your interests Spring AI Agentic Patterns: AutoMemoryTools - Persistent Agent Memory Across Sessions - A ready made memory system for AI apps, modeled after Claude’s memory model. In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever - “Java’s explicitness and verbosity turn into a strength when it comes to using AI code assistants, because it’s easier to read and understand the Java code they suggest adding to your critical, highly-optimized enterprise apps.

Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 Flighty is a great app for frequent travelers. Getting flights to track in is easy, you can track friends' flights, and it has so much data you can use to both figure out when your flight leaves and just peek at fun stuff like how many times you've been on a plane. If you're really into it - a Flighty fan - this Ben Thompson interview with their founder Ryan Jones is a good listen.

Doctor Newspapers compares Conjure Fey (2024) with the legacy version (2014) and bumps his grade from B+ to A-. The spell barely resembles its old self. The old version took a minute to cast, summoned an actual fey creature up to CR 6 with its own stat block and initiative, and if you lost concentration it turned hostile and attacked your party. The new version is a single action that conjures a spirit as a spell effect - 3d12 + modifier psychic damage on a melee spell attack, plus frightened with both you and the spirit as fear sources.

Also: serverless five years later, AI code modernization for AS/400, dependency injection history, and the AI writing witchhunt Related to your interests Here Come The AI-Based Code Modernization Offerings The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. - “Just because someone on Reddit reads a sentence that feels generic, or a metaphor that lands a little flat, they (increasingly) conclude with absolute certainty that a machine wrote it, as if mediocre prose is a new invention, as if bad writing didn’t exist before November 2022.

Also: invisible AI bottlenecks, Amex coding stats, Copilot for entertainment only, and why not both Earth from Orion after translunar injection, April 2, 2026. Two auroras and zodiacal light visible as Earth eclipses the Sun. NASA/Reid Wiseman, Artemis II Related to your interests Invisible Work in the Age of AI: The New Bottleneck in Architecture and Delivery - All that human and culture stuff you need for AI code generation to go well.

As we’ve found, writing AI-powered software is the easy part. Testing it, securing it, operating it at enterprise scale - that’s where things get interesting. “Guardrails,” all that. Purnima lays this out: a shift from deterministic systems (input goes in, predictable output comes out) to probabilistic ones where agents wander around exploring multiple paths to get stuff done. Sure, there’s all the freaking out about deleting data, bringing down production, exposing your precious secrets.

Ethan Mollick: The de-weirding impulse produces a second, deeper failure: it leads companies to default towards automation rather than augmentation. When leaders see studies showing productivity gains of 30% from AI, their instinct is to cut 30% of the workforce. That arithmetic is simple. What is hard, and requires genuine imagination, is asking a different question: what does it mean to rebuild an organisation around the fact that a single programmer can now write a hundred times more code?

Platforms are helpful, from 2025 DORA Report. Getting software from idea to production quickly has always been important, but the increase in AI-driven application deploys is about to overwhelm even the best laid golden path to production. We can feel in our bones developers are already revving apps more frequently. The 2025 DORA Report found that 95% of developers use AI and over 80% say it has made them more productive.