An alternate path for Staff+ engineers that optimizes for systems over spotlights and stewardship over fungibility.
Magpai: A bird's-eye view of your business, powered by an AI brain.
Unify your tools and context, surface insights and risks, automate next steps, and keep everyone in sync. Zero technical expertise required...
Gleam and the value of small | Ubuntu Summit 26.04
Software engineering under the spotlight
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and finished products get steadily carted away, but the coordination and efficiency of each section is fairly low. Some parts of the factory get jammed up and don’t do anything for days. Other parts are manically producing broken components which are thrown away unused. However, the factory manager - i.e. the tech company CEO - has one tool to combat this problem. That tool is the spotlight.
Agents enter distribution - Sensemaker
Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.
The Regenerative Grain - The Phoenix Architecture
In 2014 I gave a talk called Tiny (keep things small enough to understand) In 2026, small means something different. Small means safe to delete. New in the Phoenix Architecture series: The Regenerative GrainI
Everything is ugly, so go build something that isn't — Raiza Martin, Huxe (ex NotebookLM)
Our mission - Future of Life Institute
FLI steers transformative technology away from large-scale risks. Read more about the Future of Life Institute's Mission, principles and initiatives.
First impressions: Delta - Cameron's writing
A look at Zed's new agent development tool.
Geoffrey Litt
Welcome! I work on malleable software: computing environments where anyone can adapt their software to meet their needs with minimal friction. To see what that means to me, read this essay or listen to this interview.
Malleable Software in the Age of AI - Geoffrey Litt
DeepSeek
DeepSeek, unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.
What is Malleable Software Now | Bryan Min (02-27-2026)
R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
By R. S. Doiel, 2026-02-21 (revised: 2026-03-03, epilogue added 2026-03-27)