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What I’m reading Your Review: Alpha School gave some deep insights into a fascinating new school. Spoiler alert: The secret sauce is not AI, not student/teacher ratios (though both important) but… incentives! Give students rewards for doing good work and they do more work better. Almost like… the work they’ll... [Read More]

What I’m reading How long contexts fail and How to fix your context from Drew Bruenig were both good. There is so much craft involved in making AI agents work well, it’s very exciting to watch this field progress. [Read More]

What I’m playing Years late, trying to get into Death Stranding. I think I might be hooked! The gameplay is odd but strangely addicting. The story is bonkers, I need to play more just to understand what the heck is going on. [Read More]

What I’m reading Consuming all I can about how people are effectively integrating AI into their software development workflows. Field notes from shipping real code with Claude Code this week was good. The “Anchor comments” for AI is interesting, a nice supplement to a repo-level CLAUDE.md. The assertion “Never let... [Read More]

What I’m watching We finished Andor season 2 and followed it up with Rogue One. Andor delivered, absolutely peak TV and peak Star Wars. Rogue one holds up pretty well, but is lacking in comparison to Andor. Too much fan service, not enough focus. Would love an “Andor cut” of... [Read More]