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If Nothing releases a folding phone, they should absolutely name it the Nothing Burger pcmag.com/news/hands-on-nothing-4a-series-midrange-phones

Dear prospective sponsors, You can't pay me to say nice things about you, but you CAN pay me to not say mean things about you.

You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admit that the oil companies have been working hard to abolish ICE since before most of them were born

"$599 is a fucking statement." daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo

A lot of people were confused by Trump's immediate embrace of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, but it makes a lot more sense when you consider that he thinks they spell it "Golf"

Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees.

The M4 iPad Air is notable, because it will set Apple apart as the only company to release a product in 2026 sporting more RAM for the same price as the outgoing model. (8GB to 12GB) macrumors.com/2026/03/02/apple-announces-ipad-air-with-m4-chip/

Direct link to podcast audio file Sure feels like some combination of AI, the US military, and the AI military could bring an end to the world any day now, so I figured I'd better record one last show for posterity.

Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions

Finally got a chance to visit @izukiorlando with @instantsal this week.

The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a thorough simulation that I think it's convinced me to abandon my dreams of joining Starfleet when I grow up.

The first time I visited GitHub's HQ2 in 2012, they had a TV showing off their first animations of Mona and were using it to push their new tagline: Social Coding.

If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and I never responded: GitHub apparently disabled automatic watching for new repositories last year and nobody noticed.

My coding agent harnesses are designed to enable parallel serial work—multiple agents running in multiple tabs, all committing to main instead of worktrees. turbocommit does this by linking each session's commits: github.com/searlsco/turbocommit?

Ever hear of the Cart of Thesius?

Speaking of me nailing predictions, I feel like this one from 2023 is aging like wine.

Are they sure it was the Citrini Research sci-fi substack that caused the crash and not my much tighter, more grounded "Brace for the Fuckening" post written three days prior?

The startup acronym of the day is "DTC", which stands for Down To Consume.

Common feedback when I write about AI: "if job loss is a real risk, then tell people WTF to do beyond, 'generate more revenue than you cost your employer!'"

Saying "please" and "thank you to Siri: iOS 5-26: idiotic waste of time iOS 27+: productivity life hack

Over and over again, agents like Claude Code exhibit relentless productivity, exhaustive research, and mind-bending speed.

A VP of Engineering wrote in to say my latest essay, "is fantastic and terrifying and absolutely necessary for us to be having conversations about."

Just had a really clever idea, but because I now work with 5 instances of Claude instead of actual humans—and knowing they'll all forget how smart I just was in a median 125k tokens from now—it feels kind of hollow.

It's been a weird experience enabling turbocommit on my repos and watching it do a better job titling commits than I ever do.

Glad to see John Roberts finally take meaningful action on America's affordability crisis.

It was only once I read Andrew Yang's "The End of the Office" post the other day that I realized how few political leaders are seriously grappling with this question: what will happen to civilization if all this AI investment actually pays off?

Honestly after 15 years of hiring reporters to write but not report, maybe it's time we tried hiring them to report but not write cleveland.com/news/2026/02/journalism-schools-are-teaching-fear-of-the-future-letter-from-the-editor.html

If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter, then you might be interested in this Claude hook that just auto-commits after every turn with the title coming from Claude's result and the body containing the originating prompt gist.github.com/searls/841837b…

One thing I haven't heard many people talking about is that coding agents can more or less cure RSI after decades of mashing out programs by hand.

Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel.

Bought a bag of pears 3 weeks ago and they're still hard as rocks.

At first glance, it looks like Apple has provided podcasts hosts no documented way to host video for their podcasts except through a third-party hosting provider.

Direct link to podcast audio file I feel like I'm getting saltier, and it's concerning.

Enjoyed Dave's post coining Deterministic Core, Agentic Shell.

One month left on Anthropic CEO's prediction that, "in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code."

One year into living with Tesla Full-Self Driving and: it's good.

How many billions of dollars does Anthropic need to update their apps to preserve newlines on paste?

I'm developing apps for Apple platforms for the first time in 16 years so stop me if this is nuts, but the best feedback loops I've managed are when I've made the Mac build the primary one.

I like my doctor but his office is always full of sick people.

Sometimes for old times' sake, I'll Google for something instead of just asking an AI agent.

The new No Man's Sky × Wall•E mashup looks great youtu.be/tPuqNYu5kBs

PSA: iPhone Air's microphone is located on the left side of the bottom edge of the device, AKA where a right-handed person's pinky would naturally rest when gripping the phone with one hand.

Added a /prove skill to my prove_it library.

One happy accident of the fact that Claude Code Opus 4.6 turns seem to reliably take 3-5 minutes in my experience is that it's proving to be the perfect companion to a strength training workout.

Free idea: hyperbolic_links.

We ordered a wood chest that arrived with cosmetic damage.

My prove_it CLI is already proving valuable.

Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of Hashicorp and, more recently, Ghostty in a post on his relationship with AI coding: Instead of giving up, I forced myself to reproduce all my manual commits with agentic ones.

My friend Eric Doggett became a Disney Fine Artist a couple years back and he's currently being featured at EPCOT's 2026 Festival of the Arts.

Direct link to podcast audio file Elon has combined 3 of his 4 businesses and everything makes sense.