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Playground builds on a large library of DSP algorithms our team has developed over many years. The AI layer interprets your prompt, then combines or adapts these building blocks to produce new effects. Under the hood, multiple specialised agents handle different steps for parsing your request, selecting the right algorithms, generating code, and running automated tests during and after creation. We also designed the infrastructure to stay flexible about AI providers, so we can evaluate different models over time and choose the best balance of quality, reliability, and cost as the technology evolves.

I don’t care if the Neo lacks an ambient light sensor or if the webcam isn’t cutting-edge — It does not feature a notch on the top of the display and this is so huge for me. I thought Apple forgot that displays are supposed to be plain, uninterrupted, unblemished rectangles. Design-wise, this is currently the only Apple laptop I can look at and can think of purchasing after the 2020 M1 MacBook Air.

It is tempting to describe OpenClaw as a breakthrough in autonomy. That gives it slightly too much credit. The fantasy it sold was not subtle. Give the machine a goal, leave it alone, and return to discover that it has not merely completed a task but conducted a small campaign on your behalf. In the most vulgar version, the goal is simply to make money. So the demo feed fills with the same intoxicating little story: the agent notices a pain point, writes the code, wires up payments, deploys the thing, posts the link and begins, as if by administrative sorcery, to earn while its owner sleeps.

Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit? A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.

This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.

It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong

With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.

Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.

At the Portland Urban Coyote Project, we seek to understand how people and coyotes interact and to help the community learn about our coyote neighbors.

Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.

The more intense my work and this political landscape has gotten, the stronger my urge to run away to the woods forever had become. But, as I said in my recent post, I’m not going anywhere. And when I decided that I wasn’t going anywhere, I also knew that I would then need to make my home more of the type of space I need to maintain some level of peace in my life. So I decided to build a garden.