Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power.

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Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.

A quest for the perfect data-structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP Prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.

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How Larry Wall's virtues of a Perl programmer inspire me in this era of engineering

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For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a reall...

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

The "AI singularity" is often miscast as a monolithic, godlike mind. Evolution suggests a different path: intelligence is fundamentally plural, social, and relational. Recent advances in agentic AI re...

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Comparing traditional, code mode, and layered query patterns — with real benchmarks on the HackerNews API

The same four components that power Claude Code are now open source, inspectable, and model-agnostic by design.

A framework for drawing security boundaries in agentic architectures. Most agents run with zero isolation between the agent and the code it generates. Learn where to draw the boundaries, from secret i...

Prologue

Two weeks ago, Google open-sourced something that might reshape how we think about AI-generated interfaces: A2UI (Agent-to-User Interface).

Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works...

A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty

Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not f...

Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell A really common mistake I see people make when writing prompts is starting t...

Why traditional logging fails and how wide events can fix your observability

Why "Never Upgrade in Place" Now Applies to Software

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2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.

The internet was built with a missing piece. In 1994, when the HTTP specification reserved status code 402 for “Payment Required,” the architects knew money would eventually flow as freely as data. Th...

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We dropped mobile p99 latency by 40%. Then our CDN stopped talking to half our users.

We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet...