Peter Van Dijck

Over the summer I was getting frustrated with the way Claude talks (it wasn't just me).

SQLite for graph db and more coolness https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb/blob/main/examples/README.md

I've been heads down working on Sputnik Intelligence, which is data for your agents on newsletters and podcasts (with full transcriptions, engagement data, sponsor data and more).

Not sure distilling feels like stealing, but also not sure it doesn’t. distealling

Long and detailed post on the dysfunction of AI in the enterprise Which is mostly the dysfunction of the enterprise

I’m writing a book with AI, which is a lot of fun, and now I’m building a native MacOS app to make the workflow even better

Claude And Paper is good.

The age of humans writing code may be called the Paleocodic

Ethan Mollick: we are leaving the Paleo Codic: the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you, bespoke.

Paz: Context Architecture applies information architecture principles to AI systems, helping agents interpret information and produce better, user aligned responses.

MC Dean at Google wrote about A Constellation of Emerging Design Roles, looking like this: Design Engineer AI Experience Designer Director of AI Design and Experience Computational Designer Prompt Designer AI Designer Orchestrator (or AI Orchestrator) AI…

In the Great Role Confusion of 2026, Boris Cherny at Anthropic came up with these: Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra Sweep…

AI is unbundling skills and roles and activities, causing the great 2026 role confusion.

Bell Labs introduced the “Member of Technical Staff” title in the mid-20th century (well before Xerox PARC was founded in 1970).

This is really smart.

The norms around AI use are taking shape.

The details will be off, but this is a useful way of thinking about where "design" is going.

Attention Residue by Sophie Leroy.

Stealing Is A Skill

Another study on AI eroding skills: A study2 of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities.

Reading up on AG-UI and A2UI and other acronyms for streaming UI with agents.

I revived the XFML spec, not that it's relevant today, but just as an archive.

How Madrid built its metro cheaply: In 1995, the Madrid Metro was 71 miles (114 kilometers) long.

This is actually Very Good: https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-the-inuit-know-and-ai-doesnt

We are using the wrong words for AI: (intelligence, hallucination, AGI, consciousness, agent) Medicine used ‘‘hallucination’ first to describe sensory errors in the brain.

Dual Translation, (link) had not heard about that before but totally fits.

I migrated a set of subscribers from Stripe to Lemon Squeezy.

I spent a few hours and built a custom CRM for my own projects.

Google launches a spec for Llm Wiki a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, with a small set of agreed-upon conventions that let wikis written by different producers be consumed by different agents without translation.

Karpathys Llm Wiki pattern

I had Fable build a CRM for me.

In Defense Of Slop, it's gotten very good.

At Anthropic lots of titles collapse into member of the technical staff.

Mollick on the latest Anthropic model, Fable: It is possible the sidelining is temporary, just an artifact of interfaces that haven’t caught up, and that we’ll get better windows into what these models are doing and better ways to steer them midstream.

Anthropic launched their new model, and it's once again looking very, very good.

I'll call it, manually building out design systems in month-long efforts is dead.

My first ever blog post was about the ethnography course I was doing.

I spent an hour with Claude and we now have imported my blogging archive since 2002, and we have a pretty damn good search.