How Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI right now - Venture Beat 😎Here's a cool little field report from a Y Combinator hackathon event where they put Ralph Wiggum to the test. "We Put a Coding Agent in a While Loop and It Shipped
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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflo...
Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -
I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 09/23/2025 · 59m
Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything
The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
Andrew Orlowski on Twitter / X
By far the shrewdest and most entertaining analyst of the AI bubble is Georg Zoeller, ex Facebook. Re-reading his DeepSeek reaction piece from 18 months, which holds up well. It was all so predictable: banning open source, the Red Menace, pivot to military. What has really… pic.twitter.com/38dX7vcrkC— Andrew Orlowski (@AndrewOrlowski) July 5, 2026
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 …
Interview with a 'sweating' AI CEO (2026)
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business
Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating a…
Ship working code while you sleep with the Ralph Wiggum technique
Running an AI-native engineering org | Claude
How the Claude Code engineering team’s processes and structure changed once agentic coding became the default way of working.
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
Interview with King of AI Coding (Replit CEO - $1.2B)
The Trap of Instant Heroism in the Era of AI
AI has expanded what engineering leaders can do.
Cursor: AI coding agent
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best AI coding agent.
