Are other people seeing the San Francisco effect come back? E.g. a big competitive advantage for early stage from being in SF?

Bees have a concept of time, cool!

Level of determination as the single most predictive factor of startup success

"best practices are just about not losing, they're not about winning" great quote from Tiffany Rolfe's web summit talk;

Interesting potential revision on attachment theory, e.g. that closest childhood friends may have as much impact on attachment styles as primary caregivers;

Great post exploring what it means to build software in an era where the primary entity writing code is an agent not a human;

I can’t stop thinking about this piece of advice a friend once told me: “Don’t stay up late for something you wouldn’t wake up early for.”

Cannot believe it's only been 3 years.

"How do you know the motor is running at full speed?" "You hear a gear grind sometimes" An imperfect but really useful model for thinking about how hard to push.

AI is messing with startup economics from a lot of different angles, e.g. cost to build product, size of product it's reasonable to build, type of value added etc. Interesting piece on what it means for B2B sales;

I've been gradually converted from "Event Sourcing is basically never the answer" to "Event sourcing MIGHT just be the answer sometimes", anyway this post is a super clear introduction to how it works;

Well worth reading Gate's latest letter on climate strategy in full; https://t.co/zrktDLLLmk interesting thinking on how we approach large scale problems

I can't quite work out why there's so much effort going into trying not to believe that LLM's are good at writing high quality code? Engineering is still awesome, it's just a very different job to six months ago

Continually surprised by the range of things you sort of think LLM's won't be good at but it turns out they are;

It's a 153 page PDF but the Opus 4.5 System Card is really interesting; https://t.co/uPbHGDAHmj in particular multi agent combinations seem to be giving the types of bump we used to get from thinking tokens whereas the benefit of thinking tokens seems to be waning.

before you drag the "software engineering is over by next year" quote, consider Dario's "90% of Code will be made by AI in 3–6 Months" has rung true (for my own dev). No idea what next year looks like, but full-vibe-full-send could absolutely be the default (for better or worse)

Research suggesting that human brain cells have some level of "pre-configuration" for behaviour that allows interpretation of the world around rather than starting from an entirely blank slate;

LA bound, anyone I should be meeting? I specially in agentic coding / Enterprise AI space

got-oss:20b combined with open web UI is wildly good, like “I’ve stopped using Claude as my day to day bounce ideas off good” and then open chat UI’s OpenAPI spec approach to tool calling has me questioning why I’m using MCP. So that’s a thing.

Some things I believe about LLM’s which I accept are unreasonable, but I think are probably true all the same;