Industry moves, startups, policy, and tech culture. — 19 transmissions
A FAANG researcher told a junior colleague her job was useless. Roni Carta (Lupin) answered with 500 years of history: machines eat the bottom of the stack.
OpenAI field report on eight agent-assisted projects shows coding agents modernize scientific software — verification and stewardship are the new bottleneck.
A reader said splintr beats gigatoken. After studying its benchmarks, the answer is nuanced: it wins on flexibility and latency, gigatoken on raw throughput.
Google Search Console now reports how your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content performs on Google Search via platform properties.
Gigatoken is an MIT-licensed Rust tokenizer that encodes an 11.9 GB corpus at 24 GB/s — up to 989x faster than HuggingFace and 681x faster than tiktoken.
WhatsApp swapped phone numbers for usernames — numbers auto-hide, third-party blasters get banned, and everything funnels into the paid Business API.
Fully automated AI content pipelines risk publishing hallucinations and broken code. A human review gate between drafting and publishing keeps quality high.
