







Claude Code is blowing my mind—the 1st thing I’ve seen amid the AI hype that feels truly transformative One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works
Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things
Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future

AI code and software craft - alex wennerberg
Much has been said about audio, video and text "slop": low-quality, AI-generated content that has proliferated on the internet since the release of publicly-accessible AI models. Garbage content has always existed online, but the novelty of AI is that it has made its generation orders of magnitude less labor-intensive. For anyone who lacks a discerning eye, or is doing some task where discernment simply does not matter, AI has become a sufficient replacement for human hands.
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

Introducing NLWeb: Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web - Source
Today Microsoft is introducing NLWeb, an open project designed to simplify the creation of natural language interfaces for websites—making it easy to turn any site into an AI-powered app. Learn more about the technology and how web publishers can get started below.

Playing with AI inference in Firefox Web extensions
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
Digital Science on Twitter / X
An AI-native workspace that already knows your project?The new Papers AI from Digital Science keeps your drafts, data & references together, so the AI assistant has full context of your work - instead of starting fresh each time. 👉 Available now: https://t.co/DNcG173GDk… pic.twitter.com/FQWxdfKfS4— Digital Science (@digitalsci) August 4, 2026

God Damn AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...

The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.

Overview - Claude Code Docs
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools. Available in your terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser.
AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog
How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.

fastfadingviolets/new-intelligencer
A claude agent that summarizes your bsky feed to produce a bespoke newspaper
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative...

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative...

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
Claude Code is blowing my mind—the 1st thing I’ve seen amid the AI hype that feels truly transformative One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works
Dan Sinykin
among everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'