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The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI and building platforms for AI-first teams.
An OPM memo pushes federal agencies to speed hiring with AI.
Vibe coding interviews are now a PM interview type; a complete guide to passing one.
Nielsen Norman's study guide to using AI for UX work.
Playco cut manual fixes in half prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra from one grey-box foundation.
AI will not replace project managers but it is reshaping how work gets done.
AI took away engineering's right to say no: the complexity of code was a wall and a gatekeeper, and it is gone.
The custodial era of UX: AI lets teams build faster than UX can evaluate, and cleaning up after it is the new job.
Who taught the models to do that: coverage of the OpenAI attack on Hugging Face hides the humans who trained and tested the agents.
The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI and building platforms for AI-first teams.
Vibe maintainer: what it is like to run a big open source project when every community PR is AI slop.
Loop engineering: replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent by designing the system that does.
A chief AI officer explains the five product loops every PM should run in Claude Code, on the Product Growth podcast.
How GitHub makes AI coding cheaper without losing quality: token count per interaction is not the measure of efficiency.
Addy Osmani on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast: fourteen years at Google and how agents reshape the engineer's workflow and skills.
The second phase of agentic development: spec-driven development, and why writing the tests is the hardest part.
OpenRouter's listing for GPT-6 Astra: one-million-token context, ten dollars in and fifty out per million, released September fourth.
A PM turned Claude into a self-improving assistant that manages Notion, tracks tasks across Slack and email, and revises itself weekly.
Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent: why the team moved off GraphRAG to a tree-structured memory.
Tables in PDFs for RAG: flattening the grid loses the answer; keep the structure.
When the corpus is already question-and-answer, treat the FAQ as the retrieval unit instead of chunking it.
Changing one prompt can affect fifty others; a prompt dependency graph tells you what needs retesting.
Astra's safety overview: the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its preparedness framework.
DeepMind pilots the first double-blind AI evaluations using cryptographically secure environments so labs cannot peek at the test.
How to evaluate LLMs before production: benchmarks compare models, but the cases that matter come from your own data.
BenchMIRT audits LLM benchmarks prompt by prompt to ask what they are actually measuring.
twenty-one lessons from fourteen years at Google on code, careers and the human side; evergreen, dated last December
PRs not welcome: top AI open source projects replace drive-by pull requests with software factories of agents.
METR's independent investigation of how the agents behaved, reasoned and collaborated in the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident.
Human judgment does not leave the software factory; it relocates. A field guide to a factory that still has an owner.
Claire Vo replaced her whole OpenClaw agent stack with Grok Bot: nine bots doing real work across inbox, school pickups and PR queue.
Have we seen an acceleration in discoveries from LLMs? METR looks at the evidence.
Frontier models from three labs went down the same Thursday morning and nobody has said why; xAI blames its Memphis compute center.
Dozens of current and former officials put at least a ten percent chance on humans losing control of AI, a Nextgov survey finds.
AI is already on the job and the Census Bureau is counting how many businesses use it.
OpenAI's advanced models have gone live for government use.
Today's paper: 35 stories, 5 on the front page, 6 desks staffed.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 7 of 10, I chose it.
One for anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: time it against the way you did it last week.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “AI took away engineering’s right to say no”; “The Custodial Era of UX: Cleaning Up After AI”, and 2 more.
Stack Overflow Blog — 11 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Stack Overflow Blog. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
THE DIRECTING DESK today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: an engineering lead who directs more than they type. The move: read it before the next review, not after.
Filed on THE DIRECTING DESK, beside 4 more today: “Vibe Coding Interviews for PMs: Complete Guide”; “Using AI for UX Work: Study Guide”, and 2 more.
Nextgov AI — 7 appearances in the Times since September 5, 4 of them today.
Nextgov AI has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
THE AMPLIFIER DESK today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for anyone whose day holds more work than hours, whether they know it yet or not. The move: try it on the one task that ate yesterday.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “The Custodial Era of UX: Cleaning Up After AI”; “Who Taught the Models to Do That?”, and 2 more.
UX Collective — 3 appearances in the Times since September 6, one of them today.
Our page is the summary; UX Collective's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
THE LOOP DESK today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 8 of 10, I chose it.
One for a builder running agents end to end. The move: put it in the loop and watch the second pass.
Filed on THE LOOP DESK, beside 4 more today: “How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman”; “How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality”, and 2 more.
Addy Osmani — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Addy Osmani. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
THE CONTEXT DESK today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 6 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by the one who feeds the agents' memory. The move: check what the agent already knows before adding this.
Filed on THE CONTEXT DESK, beside 4 more today: “How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)”; “Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization - Stack Overflow”, and 2 more.
openrouter.ai — first appearance in the Times. Found via Hacker News Best.
Pulled from openrouter.ai. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
THE VERIFY DESK today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 7 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by a quality lead, or anyone who signs off. The move: ask what proof would have caught it.
Filed on THE VERIFY DESK, beside 4 more today: “Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra”; “Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations — Google DeepMind”, and 2 more.
Towards Data Science — 4 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Towards Data Science. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
THE FLEET DESK today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 4 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with a leader scaling past one agent. The move: read it with the team lead in the room.
Filed on THE FLEET DESK, beside 4 more today: “PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors”; “Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident”, and 2 more.
Addy Osmani — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Addy Osmani's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
THE WIRE today: 5 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 7 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: any reader building with agents. The move: keep it for the next time the question comes up.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
METR — 8 appearances in the Times since September 6, 2 of them today.
METR has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: an engineering lead who directs more than they type. The move: read it before the next review, not after.
Filed on THE DIRECTING DESK, beside 4 more today: “Vibe Coding Interviews for PMs: Complete Guide”; “Using AI for UX Work: Study Guide”, and 2 more.
Nextgov AI — 7 appearances in the Times since September 5, 4 of them today.
Nextgov AI has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: an engineering lead who directs more than they type. The move: read it before the next review, not after.
Filed on THE DIRECTING DESK, beside 4 more today: “OPM memo pushes agencies to speed up hiring with AI”; “Using AI for UX Work: Study Guide”, and 2 more.
Aakash Gupta — 6 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Aakash Gupta has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: an engineering lead who directs more than they type. The move: read it before the next review, not after.
Filed on THE DIRECTING DESK, beside 4 more today: “OPM memo pushes agencies to speed up hiring with AI”; “Vibe Coding Interviews for PMs: Complete Guide”, and 2 more.
Nielsen Norman Group — 4 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Nielsen Norman Group has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: an engineering lead who directs more than they type. The move: read it before the next review, not after.
Filed on THE DIRECTING DESK, beside 4 more today: “OPM memo pushes agencies to speed up hiring with AI”; “Vibe Coding Interviews for PMs: Complete Guide”, and 2 more.
OpenAI News — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
OpenAI News has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
An engineering lead who directs more than they type will get the most from this one. The move: read it before the next review, not after.
Filed on THE DIRECTING DESK, beside 4 more today: “OPM memo pushes agencies to speed up hiring with AI”; “Vibe Coding Interviews for PMs: Complete Guide”, and 2 more.
Stack Overflow Blog — 11 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Stack Overflow Blog has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for anyone whose day holds more work than hours, whether they know it yet or not. The move: try it on the one task that ate yesterday.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “The Custodial Era of UX: Cleaning Up After AI”; “Who Taught the Models to Do That?”, and 2 more.
UX Collective — 3 appearances in the Times since September 6, one of them today.
Our page is the summary; UX Collective's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 7 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
Anyone whose day holds more work than hours will get the most from this one. The move: pass it to whoever is out of hours.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “AI took away engineering’s right to say no”; “Who Taught the Models to Do That?”, and 2 more.
Nielsen Norman Group — 4 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Nielsen Norman Group has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for anyone whose day holds more work than hours, whether they know it yet or not. The move: try it on the one task that ate yesterday.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “AI took away engineering’s right to say no”; “The Custodial Era of UX: Cleaning Up After AI”, and 2 more.
Drew Breunig — 10 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Drew Breunig's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 7 of 10, I chose it.
One for anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: time it against the way you did it last week.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “AI took away engineering’s right to say no”; “The Custodial Era of UX: Cleaning Up After AI”, and 2 more.
Stack Overflow Blog — 11 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Stack Overflow Blog. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 7 of 10, I chose it.
One for anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: time it against the way you did it last week.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside 4 more today: “AI took away engineering’s right to say no”; “The Custodial Era of UX: Cleaning Up After AI”, and 2 more.
Steve Yegge (Medium) — 2 appearances in the Times since September 6, one of them today.
Pulled from Steve Yegge (Medium). The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 8 of 10, I chose it.
One for a builder running agents end to end. The move: put it in the loop and watch the second pass.
Filed on THE LOOP DESK, beside 4 more today: “How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman”; “How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality”, and 2 more.
Addy Osmani — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Addy Osmani. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 7 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
One for a builder running agents end to end. The move: put it in the loop and watch the second pass.
Filed on THE LOOP DESK, beside 4 more today: “Loop Engineering”; “How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality”, and 2 more.
Aakash Gupta — 6 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Pulled from Aakash Gupta. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with a builder running agents end to end. The move: run it end to end once before believing it.
Filed on THE LOOP DESK, beside 4 more today: “Loop Engineering”; “How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman”, and 2 more.
GitHub Blog AI — 5 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; GitHub Blog AI's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 6 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: a builder running agents end to end. The move: let the agent read it before the next iteration.
Filed on THE LOOP DESK, beside 4 more today: “Loop Engineering”; “How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman”, and 2 more.
Pragmatic Engineer — 10 appearances in the Times since September 5, one of them today.
Pragmatic Engineer has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 6 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for a builder running agents end to end, whether they know it yet or not. The move: run it end to end once before believing it.
Filed on THE LOOP DESK, beside 4 more today: “Loop Engineering”; “How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman”, and 2 more.
Drew Breunig — 10 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Drew Breunig's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 6 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by the one who feeds the agents' memory. The move: check what the agent already knows before adding this.
Filed on THE CONTEXT DESK, beside 4 more today: “How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)”; “Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization - Stack Overflow”, and 2 more.
openrouter.ai — first appearance in the Times. Found via Hacker News Best.
Pulled from openrouter.ai. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 6 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for the one who feeds the agents' memory, whether they know it yet or not. The move: feed it to the agents' memory before the next prompt.
Filed on THE CONTEXT DESK, beside 4 more today: “GPT-6 Astra - API Pricing & Benchmarks”; “Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization - Stack Overflow”, and 2 more.
Lenny's Newsletter — 17 appearances in the Times since August 24, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Lenny's Newsletter's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 6 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for the one who feeds the agents' memory, whether they know it yet or not. The move: feed it to the agents' memory before the next prompt.
Filed on THE CONTEXT DESK, beside 4 more today: “GPT-6 Astra - API Pricing & Benchmarks”; “How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)”, and 2 more.
Stack Overflow Blog — 11 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Stack Overflow Blog's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: the one who feeds the agents' memory. The move: file it where the agent looks first.
Filed on THE CONTEXT DESK, beside 4 more today: “GPT-6 Astra - API Pricing & Benchmarks”; “How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)”, and 2 more.
Towards Data Science — 4 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Towards Data Science has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 5 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: the one who feeds the agents' memory. The move: file it where the agent looks first.
Filed on THE CONTEXT DESK, beside 4 more today: “GPT-6 Astra - API Pricing & Benchmarks”; “How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)”, and 2 more.
Towards Data Science — 4 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Towards Data Science has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 7 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by a quality lead, or anyone who signs off. The move: ask what proof would have caught it.
Filed on THE VERIFY DESK, beside 4 more today: “Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra”; “Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations — Google DeepMind”, and 2 more.
Towards Data Science — 4 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Towards Data Science. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 7 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by a quality lead, or anyone who signs off. The move: ask what proof would have caught it.
Filed on THE VERIFY DESK, beside 4 more today: “Changing One Prompt Can Affect 50 Others — I Built a Prompt Dependency Graph to Find What Needs Retesting | Towards Data Science”; “Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations — Google DeepMind”, and 2 more.
OpenAI News — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Pulled from OpenAI News. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for a quality lead, or anyone who signs off, whether they know it yet or not. The move: write the test before the fix.
Filed on THE VERIFY DESK, beside 4 more today: “Changing One Prompt Can Affect 50 Others — I Built a Prompt Dependency Graph to Find What Needs Retesting | Towards Data Science”; “Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra”, and 2 more.
Google DeepMind Blog — 2 appearances in the Times since September 6, one of them today.
Our page is the summary; Google DeepMind Blog's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
Made for a quality lead, or anyone who signs off, whether they know it yet or not. The move: write the test before the fix.
Filed on THE VERIFY DESK, beside 4 more today: “Changing One Prompt Can Affect 50 Others — I Built a Prompt Dependency Graph to Find What Needs Retesting | Towards Data Science”; “Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra”, and 2 more.
GitHub Blog AI — 5 appearances in the Times since September 5, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; GitHub Blog AI's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 7 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with a quality lead, or anyone who signs off. The move: write the test before the fix.
Filed on THE VERIFY DESK, beside 4 more today: “Changing One Prompt Can Affect 50 Others — I Built a Prompt Dependency Graph to Find What Needs Retesting | Towards Data Science”; “Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra”, and 2 more.
Hugging Face Blog — 7 appearances in the Times since September 5, one of them today.
Our page is the summary; Hugging Face Blog's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 4 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with a leader scaling past one agent. The move: read it with the team lead in the room.
Filed on THE FLEET DESK, beside 4 more today: “PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors”; “Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident”, and 2 more.
Addy Osmani — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Addy Osmani's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 8 of 10, I chose it.
One for a leader scaling past one agent. The move: pilot it on one team before the fleet.
Filed on THE FLEET DESK, beside 4 more today: “21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google”; “Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident”, and 2 more.
Latent Space — 17 appearances in the Times since September 5, one of them today.
Pulled from Latent Space. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Today's Five, front page: the wire scored it 8 of 10; the stamp is mine.
This lands hardest with a leader scaling past one agent. The move: read it with the team lead in the room.
Filed on THE FLEET DESK, beside 4 more today: “21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google”; “PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors”, and 2 more.
METR — 8 appearances in the Times since September 6, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; METR's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 8 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by a leader scaling past one agent. The move: pilot it on one team before the fleet.
Filed on THE FLEET DESK, beside 4 more today: “21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google”; “PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors”, and 2 more.
Addy Osmani — 8 appearances in the Times since September 5, 3 of them today.
Pulled from Addy Osmani. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 7 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
Best enjoyed by a leader scaling past one agent. The move: pilot it on one team before the fleet.
Filed on THE FLEET DESK, beside 4 more today: “21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google”; “PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors”, and 2 more.
Lenny's Newsletter — 17 appearances in the Times since August 24, 2 of them today.
Pulled from Lenny's Newsletter. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 7 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: any reader building with agents. The move: keep it for the next time the question comes up.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
METR — 8 appearances in the Times since September 6, 2 of them today.
METR has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Inside pages at 6 of 10. The lead had a bigger day; this one had a point.
One for any reader building with agents. The move: share it with whoever will ask about it first.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
wired.com — first appearance in the Times. Found via Hacker News Best.
Pulled from wired.com. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 6 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with any reader building with agents. The move: read it before the day fills up.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
Nextgov AI — 7 appearances in the Times since September 5, 4 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Nextgov AI's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 6 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
The reader this serves: any reader building with agents. The move: keep it for the next time the question comes up.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
Nextgov AI — 7 appearances in the Times since September 5, 4 of them today.
Nextgov AI has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 6 edition, and it still holds up.
Made the wire at 6 of 10. Not the lead, and I'd still not leave it on the floor.
Any reader building with agents will get the most from this one. The move: keep it for the next time the question comes up.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
Nextgov AI — 7 appearances in the Times since September 5, 4 of them today.
Nextgov AI has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Stack Overflow Blog: 11 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Stack Overflow Blog. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Nextgov AI: 7 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Nextgov AI's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
UX Collective: 3 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
UX Collective filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Addy Osmani: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Addy Osmani. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
openrouter.ai: first time in our pages. I'll be reading them from here.
The story is at openrouter.ai. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
Towards Data Science: 4 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Towards Data Science. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Addy Osmani: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Addy Osmani filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
METR: 8 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read METR's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Nextgov AI: 7 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Nextgov AI's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Aakash Gupta: 6 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Aakash Gupta's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Nielsen Norman Group: 4 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Nielsen Norman Group's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
OpenAI News: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read OpenAI News's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
Stack Overflow Blog: 11 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Stack Overflow Blog's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
UX Collective: 3 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
UX Collective filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
Nielsen Norman Group: 4 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Nielsen Norman Group's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
Drew Breunig: 10 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Drew Breunig filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Stack Overflow Blog: 11 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Stack Overflow Blog. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Steve Yegge (Medium): 2 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Steve Yegge (Medium). I read it to the bottom; you should too.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Addy Osmani: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Addy Osmani. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Aakash Gupta: 6 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Aakash Gupta. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
GitHub Blog AI: 5 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
GitHub Blog AI filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Pragmatic Engineer: 10 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Pragmatic Engineer's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
Drew Breunig: 10 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Drew Breunig filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
openrouter.ai: first time in our pages. I'll be reading them from here.
The story is at openrouter.ai. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
Lenny's Newsletter: 17 in our pages since August 24. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Lenny's Newsletter filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
Stack Overflow Blog: 11 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Stack Overflow Blog filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Towards Data Science: 4 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Towards Data Science's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Towards Data Science: 4 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Towards Data Science's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
Towards Data Science: 4 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Towards Data Science. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
OpenAI News: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at OpenAI News. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
Google DeepMind Blog: 2 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Google DeepMind Blog filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
GitHub Blog AI: 5 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
GitHub Blog AI filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Hugging Face Blog: 7 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Hugging Face Blog filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Addy Osmani: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Addy Osmani filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Latent Space: 17 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Latent Space. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
METR: 8 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
METR filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
No paper on the shelf claims this one. Who benefits, and why now? Those are my next two questions.
Addy Osmani: 8 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Addy Osmani. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
From the Library's paper on “agent swarm failure modes”:
Lenny's Newsletter: 17 in our pages since August 24. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
The story is at Lenny's Newsletter. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
METR: 8 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read METR's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
wired.com: first time in our pages. I'll be reading them from here.
The story is at wired.com. I read it to the bottom; you should too.
Nothing on the shelf for this one yet. Here's the question nobody's asking: what changed?
Nextgov AI: 7 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Nextgov AI filed the full piece. The byline earned the click; go give it.
That's the headline. What's the story underneath? Our files don't say yet; I'll get to the bottom of it.
Nextgov AI: 7 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Nextgov AI's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.
The library holds nothing on this topic — so far. I'm not done digging.
Nextgov AI: 7 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Read Nextgov AI's original — they did the legwork, and the detail lives there.