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“This is not in my top ten list of worries”: What Sam Altman thinks about model distillation

Sam Altman’s latest appearance on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest Like the Best podcast covered everything from AGI and robotics to the The post “This is not in

How building software is changing at Anthropic

A deepdive on what’s changed in how the leading AI lab makes software. Ever more code review and testing is done by AI, two-pizza teams very much alive, and mor

Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways

In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.

Mate Security bets a context-first AI architecture can reinvent the SOC as it lands $35M Series A

Every major security vendor now has an AI copilot, but Mate Security thinks they’re solving the wrong problem. The Tel The post Mate Security bets a context-fir

The Orchestrator's Tax

Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is

Diagrid gives failed AI agents a way to resume

AI agents can impress in a demo and still fumble in production. Diagrid’s Catalyst 2.0 aims to make them more The post Diagrid gives failed AI agents a way to r

When vendor-supplied support matters: How AI is changing the open source security equation

Every enterprise runs on open source, but keeping it secure has become significantly harder. Frontier AI models are uncovering vulnerabilities The post When ven

“There is a sell-by date on low-code, no-code”: What Tines thinks comes next

After eight years of building a no-code automation platform, Tines launched 3B Tuesday, a new platform that uses AI to The post “There is a sell-by date on low-

Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking

How HelloFresh Brought AI Creative To Times Square

Have you ever walked through Times Square and thought, Wouldn’t it be cool if these giant billboard ads could be produced by AI? This doesn’t seem like a univer

Three Advertising Industry Myths The Market Has Already Debunked

Every industry develops narratives that begin as useful simplifications and eventually become accepted truths. Advertising is no different. But the problem is t

Standing On Principal; Google Ads Gets A Security Update

Principal Principles Who bears the brunt of AI costs? The advertising industry hasn’t settled on an answer yet, but many agency holding companies are striking a

Why PubMatic Ditched Its Prebid Web Wrapper, But Never Its SDK

Earlier this month, PubMatic shelved its Prebid integration wrapper, known as OpenWrap Web, and announced it would begin recommending Playwire as an offloading-

How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their arc

Fixing bugs in Event Sourcing is hard, for real?

Every system ends up with bad data.

The Open Internet Is Closing The Gap With Walled Gardens

Two-thirds of consumer attention lives on the open internet, but only one-fifth of ad spend follows it there. That gap is no accident. Walled gardens spent the

The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability

Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS’s “heart-attack” billing error, and more

A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems

Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?

Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production

In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone

Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math”

Turbopuffer cofounder Simon Eskildsen on the benefits of longer tenure, using first principles to build durable software – and why founders should be cautious w

Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models

We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplay

Fragments: July 21

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report o

Throw, Result, or neither?

There is one question I keep getting about my event-sourced code: why don’t I use Result?

The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud

Also: engineering leaders concerned about continued increase in code review load, devs at enterprises surprised by high enterprise pricing, and more