Daily Read · 2026-03-05
25 articles · 5.0/10 avg · 0 highlights (≥7.5)
1. Anti-patterns: things to avoid · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Agentic Engineering Patterns > There are some behaviors that are anti-patterns in our weird new world of agentic engineering. Inflicting unreviewed co
2. Something is afoot in the land of Qwen · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
I'm behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba's Qwen team over the past few weeks. I'm hop
3. Quoting Donald Knuth · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I'd been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic's hyb
4. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family. At $0.25/million tokens of input and $1.5/million out
5. ★ Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
The MacBook Neo is the first major new Mac aimed at the consumer market in the Apple Silicon era. It’s meant to make a dent — perhaps a minuscule dent
6. Studio Display vs. Studio Display XDR · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Not sure if this page was there yesterday, but the main “Displays” page at Apple’s website is a spec-by-spec comparison between the regular and XDR mo
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7. Compatibility Notes on the New Studio Displays · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Juli Clover, at MacRumors, notes that neither the new Studio Display nor the Studio Display XDR are compatible with Intel-based Macs . (I’m curious wh
8. ‘In Other Words, Batman Has Become Superman and Robin Has Become Batman’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Jason Snell, Six Colors: Here’s the backstory: With every new generation of Apple’s Mac-series processors, I’ve gotten the impression from Apple execs
9. Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and All-New Studio Display XDR · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a new family of displays engineered to pair beautifully with Mac and meet the needs of everyone, from everyday u
10. New MacBook Air With M5 · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: MacBook Air now comes standard with double the starting storage at 512GB with faster SSD technology, and is configurable up to 4TB, so
11. Apple Might Have Prematurely Leaked the Name ‘MacBook Neo’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A regulatory document for a “MacBook Neo” (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple’s website. Unfortunately, there are no further
12. Apple Introduces MacBook Pro Models With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance an
13. Apple Debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max, and Renames Its M-Series CPU Cores · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced M5 Pro and M5 Max, the world’s most advanced chips for pro laptops, powering the new MacBook Pro. The chips are
14. [Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
npx workos launches an AI agent , powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly
15. Interruption-Driven Development · 5.0/10 · idiallo
I have a hard time listening to music while working. I know a lot of people do it, but whenever I need to focus on a problem, I have to hunt down the
16. Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026) · 5.0/10 · pluralistic
Today's links Supreme Court saves artists from AI: Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side. Hey look at this: Delights
17. How many hours do you need to work to afford a pint of beer? · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi
I dropped into a pub in central London and ordered two pints of draught beer. Obviously the price of everything is nuts these days - and doubly so in
18. Game Review: Unravel Two ★★★⯪☆ · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi
My new year's resolution is to play more video games. Specifically co-operative games. I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory a
19. Maybe there’s a pattern here? · 5.0/10 · dynomight
Inventors and impacts
20. Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that QueryPerformanceCounter never fails · 5.0/10 · oldnewthing
Of course, anything can happen if you break the rules. The post Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that QueryPerformanceCo
21. Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media · 5.0/10 · oldnewthing
Just some useless trivia. The post Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media appeared first on The Old New Thing
22. Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt” · 5.0/10 · garymarcus
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
23. From logistic regression to AI · 5.0/10 · johndcook
It is sometimes said that neural networks are “just” logistic regression. (Remember neural networks? LLMs are neural networks, but nobody talks about
24. An AI Odyssey, Part 2: Prompting Peril · 5.0/10 · johndcook
I was working with a colleague recently on a project involving the use of the OpenAI API. I brought up the idea that, perhaps it is possible to improv
25. An AI Odyssey, Part 1: Correctness Conundrum · 5.0/10 · johndcook
I recently talked with a contact who repeated what he’d heard regarding agentic AI systems—namely, that they can greatly increase productivity in prof
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