Articles and links I'm reading in 2026.
- The Resonant Computing Manifesto
- You can't design software you don't work on
- Shipping at Inference-Speed
- The Running Novelist
- How to be more agentic
- The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age
- Large Language Muddle
- Machine Decision Is Not Final
- Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
- ZIRPslop Report
- Where good ideas come from (for coding agents)
- Fake thinking and real thinking
- Rational Inhumanism Vs Landian Anti-Philosophy
- The performance and psychological effects of goal setting in sport
- A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent
- Publishing your work increases your luck
- Brain-Grounded Axes for Reading and Steering LLM States
- Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models
- Friction Maxxing
- It's One of America's Most Successful Experiments, and It's Coming to an End
- The End of Software
- Software's YouTube Moment is Happening Now
- Notes on Managing ADHD
- The Rise of the Model Designer
- Matt Damon Says Some Actors Would Prefer 'to Go to Jail' Than Be Canceled
- Painter
- Machines of Loving Grace
- Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away
- Research at Scale
- Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn't.
- Claude's Constitution
- Here's What's Next in Agentic Coding
- Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
- Shipyard: Creator Contest
- The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe
- Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
- Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
- Designing Co-Creative Systems: Five Paradoxes in Human–AI Collaboration
- Making Playgrounds using Claude Code
- Digital Deception: Architectural Photography After Photoshop
- What is the impact of AI on productivity?
- A Software Library with No Code
- Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
- Elizabeth Goodspeed on imperfection as design strategy
- The Case for Early Prototyping
- Building AIs That Do Human-Like Philosophy
- Actually Possible: Thoughts on Utopia
- TITAA #75: Universe Models
- As Rocks May Think
- What if labor becomes unnecessary
- The Globalization of Canadian Rage
- Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious
- AI, Automation, and Expertise
- The Gears of My Childhood
- Optimal Timing for Superintelligence
- Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning
- Feedback Loopable
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- When Kepler Meets Turing
- Child's Play
- The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
- The A.I. Disruption We've Been Waiting for Has Arrived
- Computation in Motion: From the Personal to the Planetary
- Is AI Really 'Intelligent'? This Philosopher Says Yes
- Does Socialization Emerge in AI Agent Society?
- 3 Etymologies + The Word "Attention"
- The Attention Trove
- Introducing Printing Machines: Benchmarking Model Masterpieces
- Computerangel Blog
- Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth?
- Six Types of AI Startups, Explained
- Gen Z Lives in the Archive
- What Happens When You Type google.com and Press Enter?
- You Can Just Do Things
- Texterial: A Text-as-Material Interaction Paradigm for LLM-Mediated Writing
- Machine Love
- Why No AI Games?
- The Enchantments of Pure Consciousness
- Labor Market Impacts of AI
- Agentic AI's OODA Loop Problem
- The Tyranny of the Marginal User
- Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices
- Keepers of the Seeds
- The Evolution of the Creative Professional
- Code Review Bench: Towards Billion Dollar Benchmarks
- Teens on Growing Up With AI
- SoMe: A Realistic Benchmark for LLM-based Social Media Agents
- Simulation: The Next Frontier for AI
- Screens Within Screens
- Chasing the Mirage of Ethical AI
- Bruner's Search for Meaning: A Conversation between Psychology and Anthropology
- The Psychology of What Makes a Great Story
- Sensemaking in Organizational Storytelling: From Linear Storytelling to Antenarrative
- When Using AI Leads to "Brain Fry"
- For Young New York Job Hunters, Entry-Level Roles Are Vanishing
- Claude, You Are a Cutie-Pie!
- Tech Boss Uses AI and ChatGPT to Create Cancer Vaccine for His Dying Dog
- Beyond the Machine
- Spacetime Bounds on Consciousness
- Durable Patterns in AI Product Design
- In Defense of the Poor Image
- Vibecoding Is Self-Expression
- How Well Does Agent Development Reflect Real-World Work?
- Why I May Hire AI Instead of a Graduate Student
- Coding After Coders
- Intelligent AI Delegation
- Alfred Adler
- The AI Revolution Is Here. Will the Economy Survive the Transition?
- How Much a Dollar Cost?
- What 81,000 People Want from AI
- Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste
- My First Vibe RL Experience
- Build vs Run
- DanceGRPO: Unleashing GRPO on Visual Generation
- Profiling Hacker News Users Based on Their Comments
- Evaluating Theory of Mind and Internal Beliefs in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
- AI Can Learn Scientific Taste
- Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion
- The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry
- Harness Design for Long-Running Application Development
- Composer 2 Technical Report
- Reinforcement Learning with Random Rewards Actually Works with Qwen 2.5
- There's a Good Reason You Can't Concentrate
- Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
- Natural-Language Agent Harnesses
- TITAA Media Recs #77: Paradises
- AI Agent Traps
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- How Autoresearch Will Change Small Language Models Adoption
- GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model
- Small Models Can Introspect, Too
- Is There Life After Smartphones?
- Do LLMs 'Feel'? Emotion Circuits Discovery and Control
- Evolution Strategies
- Lluminate: Creative Exploration with Reasoning LLMs
- The Aesthetics and Fractal Dimension of Electric Sheep
- Picbreeder: A Case Study in Collaborative Evolutionary Exploration of Design Space
- Essay Architecture
- A Dozen Young Job Hunters on What It Takes to Get Hired
- The Bitter Lesson
- Beyond Slop
- Voyages to the End of the World
- Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
- Our Longing for Inconvenience
- String Seed of Thought: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation
- Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible
- What's really happening inside AI's black box? Berkeley researchers have answers
- LatentEvolve: Self-Evolving Test-Time Scaling in Latent Space
- Precise Manipulation with Efficient Online RL
- From Entropy to Epiplexity: Rethinking Information for Computationally Bounded Intelligence
- How To ML Paper
- What Happens If America Nationalizes AI?
- The Computer for the 21st Century
- The Era of Experience
- Woosh: A Sound Effects Foundation Model
- Illuminating the Three Dogmas of RL under Evolutionary Light
- The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search Interface
- Interpretable Feature-Level Control and Inference-Time Change
- Teach Them to Fish
- Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations
- Measuring Intelligence through Games
- Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- SFT, RL, and On-Policy Distillation Through a Distributional Lens
- The Trouble with Narrative History
- 2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership
- TITAA #78.5: Stay in the Manifest, Bio Processors
- how to enter side doors
- ChatGPT, AI, College and Graduation
- Human Bottlenecks
- Language Game: Talking to Non-Human Systems
- A Complexity Theory of AI Value Accrual
- Memory Machines — can LLMs make flashcards that last?
- People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
- AI Fluency for Small Businesses
- Fixing LLM writing with Distribution Fine Tuning
- Don't Build an RL Environment Startup
- What if RL Environments Aren't Mispriced?