Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 03/10/2026Anthropic shipped mods for Claude Code on October 1. A mod is a small piece of code that sits inside the coding agent and can change what it does, block what it's about to do, or draw something new on the screen. Within a day one hobbyist directory listed 26 of them. 110
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 02/10/2026I had Opus make a two-minute science film about a genetic system an AI agent found in a virus's DNA. I didn't write a frame of it. 210
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 28/09/2026Your AI agents leave a trail behind them. Every prompt, every tool call, every correction a person makes when the agent gets something wrong. Satya Nadella calls it exhaust, and there's a real argument it ends up worth more than the work itself. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 25/09/2026Anthropic now runs its own biology lab, and this week it announced the first result: 949 Claude agent sessions, 21.5 hours, and a new arrangement of genes inside a virus that infects bacteria. They named it ART. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 16/09/2026Four CEOs agreed in a weekend that AI is moving too fast. Three days later Nvidia's CEO stood on the same conference stage as one of them and said we don't need any new laws. 110
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 15/09/2026Anthropic is shipping a real plugin system for Claude Code. They're calling it Claude Mods, it lands on a scale of weeks, and it already runs today behind a flag. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 13/09/2026On 27 August Anthropic gave AI agents a standard way to run lab equipment. Tecan, QIAGEN and Danaher are putting the driver into instruments you already own, so your lab does not adopt this. It wakes up with it. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 08/09/2026OpenAI put out two posts on Sunday and I read both twice. One is a wall of charts about how much of its research is now done by agents. The other is its chief scientist saying he can no longer see what those agents are thinking. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 31/08/2026Generation got cheap. Selection didn't. That gap is the whole job now, and a lot of us are still staffing for the old one. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 29/08/2026Cisco gave all 90,000 of its employees a personal AI agent. The best quote is the CFO's, not the CTO's: "It's not going to burn a whole bunch of tokens with frontier models." 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 06/08/2026Twelve words from Peter Steinberger got 2.9 million views last month and handed us a whole new discipline. Graph engineering. Within two days it had three competing definitions and two Stanford studies proving it works. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 05/08/2026Last morning of the contest. Four publishing slots left, five hours to deadline, and my pipeline had spent six hours insisting it had nothing left to publish. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 27/07/2026The enterprise prediction layer got bought this quarter, and almost nobody has independently checked what was bought. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 17/07/2026"A CPU-only PyTorch wheel installs without a single error and runs twenty times slower in total silence." 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 15/07/2026Everyone in AI is talking about "the loop" right now. Anthropic shipped it as a feature. The slogan going around is that the winners will not have the smartest model, they will have the best loop. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 14/07/2026There are roughly 200,000 eye specialists on Earth, and well over a billion people living with diabetes and high blood pressure, the diseases that take sight before anyone catches them. The math does not work. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 09/07/2026People keep asking how I stay current on AI. For a long time I answered badly. I said I read a lot, which is true and completely useless to the person asking. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 07/07/2026"The first time you see an engineer build something in 45 minutes that would have taken a week a year ago, but then see it not ship for another 6 weeks, you will be radicalized." 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 30/06/2026NVIDIA let us borrow some iron: eight H100 GPUs on a grant clock that doesn't stop. So the test isn't how fast the node is, it's how full we keep it. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 27/06/2026The new AIXplore is live. I rebuilt it from the ground up into a lab notebook rather than a blog: interactive widgets you can drive, Tufte-style margin notes for citations and asides, and side quests that open the deep technical detours without cluttering the main read. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 24/06/2026New AIXplore: reasoning post-training has split into two camps, and the split is the reward, not the architecture. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 23/06/2026I'm on sabbatical. For most people that means rest. For me it means building full-time for the first time in years. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 22/06/2026A post claimed autonomous AI research running on 800 markdown skills. We run about fifty. My first reflex was to scroll past, because in agent systems a big skill count usually means someone confused inventory for capability. 200
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 19/06/2026Inside one week, Perplexity and Anthropic shipped the same architectural bet from different directions, and it's the one worth internalizing now. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 19/06/2026Inside one week, Perplexity and Anthropic shipped the same architectural bet from different directions, and it's the one worth internalizing now. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 19/06/2026Inside one week, Perplexity and Anthropic shipped the same architectural bet from different directions, and it's the one worth internalizing now. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 16/06/2026A year ago I wrote up Amazon Kiro vs Claude Code as two opposite bets: Kiro forced process on you, Claude Code stayed out of your way. You picked the side you believed. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 15/06/2026There's a small robot on my desk. You say "Hey, Reachy" and it turns its head, thinks for a second, and answers out loud. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 12/06/2026Busy week away from the usual headliners. Google shipped DiffusionGemma (text generation by diffusion, ~4x faster) and Gemma 4, Microsoft revealed its MAI frontier models, and Bezos raised $12B for an 'artificial general engineer.' All in today's wire. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 05/06/2026I asked Claude to build a new capability for ARIA, the autonomous research agent I keep running. A way to train a model across many clinic sites without the patient data ever leaving the building. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 05/06/2026I built a small thing this week that I thought was clever. One of my automated routines now reads back over its own run, asks what it just learned that its instructions didn't already cover, and edits its own checklist so the next run is a little sharper. 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 23/10/2025🧵 4/4 This matters for production AI systems where reliability is non-negotiable. Read the full announcement: bit.ly/42SiOHO @OpenRouterAI @AnthropicAI @OpenAI #AIInfrastructure #LLMOps 000
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 15/08/2025This pattern—from notes to knowledge—is a fantastic starter project for anyone AI-curious. It takes a bit of elbow grease, but the payoff is huge. I wrote a full guide on how you can build your own. 👇 bit.ly/41J3lcl 4/4 000
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 14/08/2025Action item: Re-evaluate your hosting strategy. Optimize for speed, cost, and quality. Independent benchmarks are key to cutting through the noise. Full data: bit.ly/414UUIj 000
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 14/08/2025New benchmarks reveal hosting impacts AI model performance more than expected. gpt-oss-120B varies up to 10% on reasoning tasks (GPQA Diamond x16, AIME 2025 x32) across providers. Top: @PascalAI (78.8%), @TogetherAI (76.5%), @FireworksAI (74.3%). Bottom: @Azure (70.6%), @awscloud (70.3%). 🧵 1/4 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 14/08/2025The pace of AI innovation is relentless, from agent frameworks to healthcare breakthroughs. This week's research highlights a push for more powerful, reliable systems. Read the full recap: bit.ly/3J8nYIP #AI #LLM #AIResearch 🧵 4/4 011
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 11/08/2025Bottom line: We're moving from Q&A to execution. Prompts → Protocols Questions → Workflows Descriptions → Prescriptions Master context engineering once. Deploy anywhere. This is different thinking than we've done before. Full post: bit.ly/4lk9jaM 🧵 4/4 000
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 07/08/2025Explore how claude-code-router can transform your development workflow. Learn more here: bit.ly/45oRQb0 @AnthropicAI @GitHub #AICoding #DeveloperTools #Infrastructure 🧵 4/4 000
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 03/08/2025To realize this, Meta has formed Superintelligence Labs, recruiting top talent like former OpenAI leaders and investing billions in massive compute infrastructure to lead the AI race. More: nyti.ms/4ldwt2D 🧵 3/4 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 02/08/2025Game-changer for enterprise AI! Full details: bit.ly/4mlRmcy @OpenAI @sama @karpathy #AI #LLM #Productivity 🧵 4/4 001
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 31/07/2025Open-source AI changes everything. As Hugging Face's Florent Daudens notes: when AI tools aren't "locked behind trillion-dollar data centers" but distributed through open models, "capital concentration becomes much harder to maintain." bit.ly/4obNFbm 🧵 3/4 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 31/07/2025Key insight: When AI automates 30% of tasks, growth could exceed 20% annually through "endogenous growth"—AI improving AI in an accelerating loop. Historical context: pre-1700 growth was 8% per century, Industrial Revolution hit 350%. econ.st/41b07hA 🧵 2/4 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 23/07/2025This week's edition covers 20 papers across AI systems, safety research, medical applications, and the big question: are we making real progress or just making noise? Full breakdown here: bit.ly/4kSNa3a What's your take on where AI research is heading? 000
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 22/07/2025Clinicians report the tool as a game-changer, with 75% noting improved care quality in busy clinics. It's especially vital in areas like Kenya, where it could prevent thousands of errors annually while keeping humans in control. wb.md/3GPtWgS 🧵 3/4 100
Justin @justinhjohnson.com · 20/07/2025What do you think – how soon will AI close the gap? Share your takes, follow for more AI benchmark insights, and join the discussion. #ARCAGI3 #AGI @arcprize @fchollet 🧵 4/4 000