February 2026 Bakery
PodRead links below have "View Original" link for those who want the original text. I'm sharing through my app PodRead because it seems to have become my default blogging aggregator. I'm thinking about how to have a proper knowledge management system, so hopefully more on that in the future!
Ross interview Dario.
Discussion with Pedro L. Gonzalez about his disillusionment with MAGA.
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
My team has been working on Agentic Commerce. My team is cooking.
Get his ass, Ezra.
Interview on the career and thinking of Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Ghostty, founder and former CEO of HashiCorp.
Look at the choices the uber wealthy make for their own kids, not at the education policies they fund or advocate. They have teams of personal tutors for their children that are people.
Get Sam Altman's ass.
If Boris wasn't coding, he'd be making Miso.
Some notable takes on the engineering career.
More interesting career knowledge for engineers.
I am going on the record as being against this.
Ser Yegge on the good vibes of Anthropic.
Ser Yegge explores how the productivity boost from AI is paradoxically draining workers, like a vampire sucking blood.
Discusses findings that suggest AI may potentially lead to burnout.
Good advice for new and experienced individual contributors alike. 1:1's are not status reports. "Stop letting status eat everything else"
Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp and Ghostty creator (no big deal) discusses how he has moved into the phase of "life-altering discovery."
Charles is a fascinating tech leader I ran into this month. This is a post from a while ago about his insights and lessons from his first six months as an engineering manager at Uber.
Another Charles post, this one on giving feedback.
A utopian vision where AI cures disease.
I love reading my friend's blog. This one is especially cozy.
Former Stripe and current Anthropic manager, Katelyn Lesse describes how software teams are evolving. "Agents exclusively run in self-verifying loops."
Failed presidential candidate Andrew Yang describes the impending disaster coming from white-collar workers by AI and recommends selling your house and downsizing now. Honestly, not wrong.
A review of Alpha School from a parent. Completely enthralling. On the one hand I hate everything about Alpha School, on the other hand, I may start paying my children to become champion chess masters.
I love Joel's attention to craft and beauty. Truly meticulous.
Lord Simon Willison introduces a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns.
Explains the concept of Red/green Test Driven Development and highlights its effectiveness when used with coding agents
Discusses the shifting the focus from writing code to ensuring that the delivered code is high quality and outlining new habits for developers.
"History’s most influential military strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, said this. He called it Schwerpunkt, the center of gravity. “The first task, then, in planning for a war is to identify the enemy’s center of gravity, and if possible trace it back to a single one,” he wrote in On War. “The second task is to ensure that the forces to be used against that point are concentrated for a main offensive.”
Packy McCormick
"I have seen teams of very smart engineers build agent systems of breathtaking complexity whose primary output is the existence of the system itself. The agents run. They produce logs. The logs are analyzed by other agents. Reports are generated. Dashboards are populated. The entire apparatus hums with the unmistakable energy of work being done."
Will Manidis
"I think we're in the "this seems overblown" phase of something much, much bigger than Covid."
Matt Shumer
"The definition of poverty is terribleness caused by scarcity."
Patrick McKenzie
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