One of the things I noticed while using social networks is that there are some recurring patterns. People on social media will always try to get your attention. And when that happens I feel like I'm being attacked every time I spot this, as if they're targeting me in a way. For example, lately on X, there have been people saying, “X (product) can do WHAT?” That is a way to gather attention from the reader.

This is one of the stories I go back to, and it's about integrity. It's about how our mind works and how every little decision we make in our head defines the outcome. I was doing a workout in a gym many, many years ago. I was running on a treadmill when, at one point, there were these two guys talking to each other about why someone would cheat on someone else.

Sometimes we learn things and we don’t really realize their value until a lot of time has passed. I remember going to London many, many years ago, probably close to 15 years at least. It was a very short weekend where the man I was with at the time would go to a kind of conference with multiple events focused on personal growth.

“There are 2 other security findings you’re missing.” There’s an interesting concept around how AI models work. What you need to know is that their persistence is sometimes predictable, sometimes it’s not. What you see even in frontier models is that sometimes they’re extremely persistent in achieving a task, to the point that they try to do stuff. You give them a request and then inventing stuff, and then they circumvent the limitations of your system.

I was looking at the new advertisement for Claudeforce, and I was actually impressed. The writing, the message, is very personal, very deep. It is entertaining, engaging, uplifting. It gives you the energy you would expect from this kind of ad. You can clearly see how well crafted it is: the writing, how things are put together, how they guide you through a set of emotions and let you visualize parts of your daily work life, at least for some people.

On August 17, GitHub experienced one of its biggest outages. According to its outage report, the cause was this: “We failed to scale critical components before demand exceeded their capacity. Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion.” That’s more than a 100% increase in commits, and we all know why. AI is changing the world by allowing more people to contribute and create code and projects.

This beautiful video reminded me of how our hobbies change through life, how some hobbies are actually not hobbies, and how you evolve through the line of experiences that make you who you are today. I remember when I joined Automattic and I started just to talk to people, and they would ask me, “What’s your hobby?” And I didn’t have the answer.

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Before you read further, let this be an ask from yours truly to help test WordPress 7.1. Pick one thing! Get on a roll and maybe pick two! Any and everything helps. If you don’t have time to …

Recently me and a coworker had the unusual scenario where we were working on exactly the same bug. He was using Claude, and I was using Codex, but what was fascinating was the PR result: The code output was incredibly similar. It was a small change, not a big refactoring, but they were so close, almost identical. Different Models, right?

I recently bought a special kind of art that I discovered long time ago: a glass sphere with a unique depth effect when you look at it and when the light shines on it. I think it took me around 15 to 20 years to buy it. I first came across these spheres around 20 years ago, probably on Reddit. I do not remember exactly where I first encountered it.

Life for me has always been made of scents. Of smells that emerge and unsettle you. Of thoughts that cling to a single fragrance molecule, to a particular accord, lingering not only on your clothes but in your memory. Like the scent of me embracing my mother on a cold winter night, when she came home from work and her coat carried the faint smell of smoke, along with the crisp note of the winter air woven into the worn leather of her jacket.

How do you ask for guidance in today's world? Here's what comes to mind for me, based on a recent experience. Traits I wanted to ask for specific guidance and feedback from some people I admired, people I worked with. I wanted to understand if and how my work, and the way I am, impacted them. There are people who are able to spot their strong traits and weak traits easily.

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More than 15 years ago, I decided I wanted to learn singing. Up until that point, I was the guy who didn't sing. I didn't sing in public, nor privately.We have this image of people singing in the shower. I didn't sing in the shower. Singing was not part of my radar, it was invisible to me, it was a skill I never thought existed, although I could clearly see (and hear) singers.

One of the problems with statistics and numbers is that we trust them as if they're always trustworthy. But the problem with those numbers is that they depend on which domains and which sources they're using. Averages are even trickier than that. One concept that blew my mind recently is the Will Rogers phenomenon. A Simple Example Let's say you're a sales manager.

A complete or partial loss of function while reviewing the output of a coding agent.

One of the things that makes understanding easier is asking questions. We are often tricked by our own intelligence because we think we understand, whereas in fact we don’t: We’re not truly understanding something. What’s stopping us from understanding the solution is getting deeper into the problem.But how do you get much deeper into the problem? It’s something that I also touched…

What is price? It can be a measure to "weight value".For example, there was this person on Twitter that stated stated how $30 per PR shipped is a good price, and I tend to agree. The thing we have with AI now is that you can spin up a model ask it to build something. Guess what? The model will agree and will start using tokens (spending tokens).