Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for… pic.twitter.com/uMFWTcBCsl— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) October 2, 2026
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
Differential spec analysis
Differential techniques are chronically underappreciated in software. And they pair incredibly well with coding agents. Agents are now good enough that differential analysis can even be used to refine a spec, not just code. The Bitter Lesson is, as-written, about AI. It begins: The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is […] But the end of that sentence is far more broadly applicable than just AI.
Rainbows End: what lessons can we take from future worlds? - Boris Mann Tech Blog
Vernor Vinge's sci-fi novel Rainbows End and what it can teach us about b2b software
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell - Outdata
Determinism, architecture, and the de-sloppification of legacy code.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
anzellai/sky
Sky — an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go. Hindley-Milner types, server-driven UI (Sky.Live), single binary output.
Write-Only Code | Heavybit
AI may be accelerating software into a world of "write-only" code that forces a rethink of culture, processes, and tools. Heavybit’s Joseph Ruscio explains.
Where is all the new, good software?
Here's a question we see, especially from AI skeptics: if AI coding is so great, shouldn't we be seeing more new, good software by now? Here are some answ...
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …