This thread is a good summary of how dramatically the craft of software engineering has changed over the past 12 months
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CircuitHub's The Grid assembles circuit boards in Massachusetts with zero changeovers. A robot factory, not a line. Prototypes and 10,000-unit batches share the same machines. 2.2M+ boards in five quiet years. Source: ASSEMBLY Magazine Video: CircuitHub #Robotics #Reshoring #PhysicalAI
Agility Robotics is about to become a public #Humanoid company. Its Churchill XI deal should raise about $465M, with a Foxconn-led PIPE. Shareholders vote Nov 2, and trading as AGLT is expected Nov 5 on Nasdaq. Source: GlobeNewswire Video: Agility Robotics #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Nasdaq
Rendezvous Robotics raised $20M for spacecraft that assemble themselves in orbit. Its tiles launch separately, then maneuver and lock together in space. In 2028, seven plan to join, split, and rejoin on their own. Source: Via Satellite Video: Rendezvous Robotics #Robotics #SpaceTech #PhysicalAI
I w̵r̵o̵t̵e̵ a̵ q̵u̵i̵c̵k̵ b̵l̵o̵g̵ p̵o̵s̵t̵ re-shared a really great snippet from @emollick.bsky.social's new book Co-Existence, about why AI doesn't actually produce statistically average answers. P.S. Buy his new book, it's great!
Acknowledgments of large language model (LLM) use in biology preprints have grown exponentially since 2023. In three years, the share of preprints acknowledging LLM use is nearly as high as acknowledgments of specialized AI tool use, at 17% vs. 19% in September.
There's a common refrain that the price of tokens is only going to go up, but as far as I can see the opposite is true. I spent all week in Opus 5.5 building tons of high-fidelity fully-working interactive prototypes to test ideas for work (plus a few side projects), and only hit 8% of my limit.
One good news - Intel does have a paying packaging customer.
I was interviewed in Vox about my new book, and a question on the meaning of work let me discuss something I have been thinking a lot about, comparing the logic of industrialization to the logic of craft: "You’re a hand-weaver in a world of power looms." www.vox.com/technology/5...
Penske Media and education company Chegg are appealing the dismissal of their lawsuit against Google over the impact of AI Overviews on traffic and revenue pressgazette.co.uk/news/penske-...
@sengonzalezny.bsky.social and I introduced the AI Chatbot bill in New York after hearing too many tragic stories of chatbots causing harms to our children and tireless advocacy from families like Maria Raine’s.
This statement from Lip-Bu Tan (Intel's CEO) makes me furious. He needs to go. We have secured substrate capacity for our advanced packaging business over the next two years, even though external customers have yet to be announced or even signed. Who knows...
Reddit says search referral traffic from Google went "down meaningfully in this quarter", blaming AI Mode and AI Overviews taking search "from being a traffic driver to whatever’s going on now". Reddit will soon allow access to logged-in users only www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/r...
**Another Y2K moment???** For those who say AI will kill tech jobs, it feels like we're at the beginning of another Y2K-like boom, where companies will use AI to scan their codebases, identify issues, and remediate them. Let the tech jobs bloom...
I had Opus build a game that takes JIRA tickets from any of your real projects & converts them into dramatic audiologs that are the plot of a 2000s-era horror game set on a mysteriously abandoned space station. Play a demo: wontfix-game.netlify.app Github: github.com/emollick/aud...
The computing power of AI chips sold each quarter has grown 2.5× per year since the start of 2024. That’s down from roughly 6× in 2023, led by Nvidia’s then-new H100 GPU.
Yesterday, New York showed that we can lead the country in passing common-sense AI safety regulation.
This is good advice from the Claude Code team (posted on X) for how to think about working with models like Opus 5.5. I would add: build checkpoints where the model reports back to you with interim ideas or prototypes so you can guide & give feedback, rather than one-shotting on your goal.
What’s new for submissions and authors at #CVPR2027? Source: cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
If you're a Korean, decision... decision... Mac Studio for 50.8M KRW or Model Y for 49.99M KRW.
Qwenputer: Qwen3.5-4B with a full RISC-V CPU inside its weights, using the model's own Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython in its forward passes, no external runtime. Live demo: modelscope.ai/studios/Spar... HF: huggingface.co/divagr1925/Q... Write-up: divagr.com/blog/qwenputer
Language modeling on raw bytes by Albert Gu A new version of hierarchical networks (H-Nets) where it finds 3-5x efficiency gains in controlled scaling law experiments, and at larger scale matches an open-source model trained on 11T tokens with ~10x less data and compute.
Interesting observation by Thariq (former Claude Code engineer): - Technical people are sad because their skills are being superseded by AI agents. - Non-technical people are eager to become more technical so they can use AI agents more effectively.
Google: “AI is impacting our search business.” I mean, when you do a Google search, you often get an AI-generated summary without needing to click on anything. Google is showing AI responses that generate less advertising revenue. So, wasn’t this expected?
For everyone wondering whether the public can have any say in determining how AI impacts us, New York again has an answer: Absolutely.
The models are so, so good these days. You can just ask them to fix a huge performance edge case that you never encounter but hear about in bug reports. They spend 90 minutes profiling, sampling, and making a demo app to validate the issue — ultimately fixing it in your app when they're certain.
Oh no. I regret to inform you that the AIs are now dropping bops and sick beats.
I think October represents another inflection point in capabilities for coding agents and the models that drive them: Claude Opus 5.5 can now build video games that are actually fun simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/28/...
Me at 1am firing off 16 agents to fix all of Plinky's scrolling stutter, finding database optimizations, and patching a couple of longstanding bugs: I've never been more exhilarated in my life. (Yes, I'm a fucking nerd.) Me in the morning: Oh, right, I'm too old to stay up this late working.
Artificial Analysis finally moves to closed benchmarks (goodbye & good riddance, GDPval-AA), and finds that open weights models are falling further behind than they had previously measured. Take with a grain of salt, but matches the general vibes that we haven't seen a Fable-class open model.
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