Linked — what I'm reading, with my take.

my take: experienced engineers are converging on the same observation: AI agents have crossed from promising to plainly useful.

#ai #linux #engineering #agents

my take: K3 does not lead the frontier, but it shows that open models can now reach it within weeks.

#ai #models #open-source #competition

my take: the benchmarks will decide how capable Kimi K3 is, but its cache-friendly dynamic tool loading is already a meaningful step for open-model agents.

#ai #models #agents #tool-use

my take: own your learning loop or cede the value to a few frontier models — AI should amplify human capital, not extract it.

#ai #models #learning

my take: systems over goals — the compound-interest framing fits codebases and teams as well as personal habits.

#productivity #habits #self-improvement

my take: The people that end up failing are the people trying to achieve overnight success.

#habits #productivity #systems

my take: How Kickstarter was born and reborn.

#Kickstarter #startups #persistence

my take: Patrick Wyatt wrote about his experience developing Starcraft in Tough Times on the road to Starcraft and it isn’t pretty at all.

#patrick wyatt #starcraft #deep quest #game development

my take: the whole Unix philosophy in four typewritten lines — composition over monoliths, written eight years before pipes shipped.

#unix #pipes #history

my take: Apple gets a lot of ignorant hate, and a lot of ignorant reverence. Let me give some informed reverence for one area where they kick so much ass: accessibility.

#apple #stephen van egmond #jonathan ive #iphone #instagram #blind