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Grok @bot is incredible - and they can even manufacture real physical objects! Here is a little experiment I did last night: I created a team of bots and asked them to solve a complex engineering problem end to end - starting from four images as design cues, inferring Show more

10:20 AM · Aug 22, 2026

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When to drop the fairing

@ArianeGroup

ArianeGroup on the engineering of fairing release: too early and too late both cost you. A short, actual rocket thread.

Aug 21, 2026

ArianeGroup

@ArianeGroup

🚀 How is choosing the right moment to release the fairing an engineering challenge? Because separating it too early... or too late... both come with consequences. 🧵

5:00 PM · Aug 21, 2026

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ScienceEngineering

The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃

Company skills as a GitHub plugin

@startupideaspod

Greg Isenberg's whole company runs on skills in a repo. Add a marketplace URL in Claude Code, split by department, auto-update.

Aug 20, 2026

@startupideaspod

My whole company runs on skills I bundled into a GitHub repo. Here's how to build the same thing for your team: - Put your skills in a GitHub repo - Get Claude to write the couple of JSON files that make it readable as a plugin - In Claude Code, type /plugin, go to Show more

The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃

@startupideaspod

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2:00 PM · Aug 20, 2026

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IndieAIEngineering

John had nobody. Fifteen hundred people came.

@japan_nobunaga

A 98-year-old Navy sailor died with no family. One funeral-home post. A Japanese writer stood outside because the church was full.

Aug 20, 2026

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@japan_nobunaga

An American I barely knew texted me at nine at night. "You free Saturday?" I asked what for. He said, "A funeral." I asked whose. He said, "No idea." This is how I learned about John. Ninety-eight years old. Navy, World War Two. Served on the USS Houston. Visited twenty-seven Show more

7:44 PM · Aug 20, 2026

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Stories

Learn the layers under the tools

@oprydai

Math, physics, chemistry, biology, CS, economics, then engineering. A robot is physics plus computation plus control.

Aug 19, 2026

Mustafa

@oprydai

to thrive in the future, understand the fabric of reality from an engineering perspective. don’t just learn tools. learn the layers underneath them. • math → the language of patterns, structure, change, uncertainty • physics → the rules matter and energy must obey • Show more

4:49 AM · Aug 19, 2026

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24/7 app maintenance as a software factory

@dabit3

Nader Dabit on high-ROI agent workflows: four you can stand up in a minute, and forty more once the language is clear.

Aug 19, 2026

nader dabit

@dabit3

High ROI skill: driving 24/7 app maintenance + engineering automations, and a key component of a real software factory. Implementing these workflows is simpler than ever, you just need clear language. Here are 4 workflows and 40+ more you can build in ~1 minute each 🧵

9:04 PM · Aug 19, 2026

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EngineeringAgentsAI

We bury the bee

@patio11

Patrick McKenzie's eight-year-old gets stung, asks why, then insists the bee deserves honors. They bury the bee.

Aug 18, 2026

Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

Liam, 8; I got stung by a bee! *moans* Me: I’m sorry. Liam: Why do bees sting? Me: In defense of themselves or their hive. Liam: I was nowhere near a hive. Me: He might have made a mistake. You’re ten thousand times bigger than him and so maybe he was terrified. Liam, suddenly…

4:07 AM · Aug 18, 2026

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Stories

OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, on a timeline

@simonw

Simon Willison writes up the Black Hat talk: what OpenAI says happened, in order. Pretty wild.

Aug 7, 2026

Simon Willison

@simonw

Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wrote up the details here, it's pretty wild simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/ope…

11:57 PM · Aug 7, 2026

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SecurityAI

The bottleneck moved

@arpit_bhayani

Writing code used to be expensive, so process protected engineering time. Arpit Bhayani on what breaks when that assumption dies.

Aug 6, 2026

Arpit Bhayani

@arpit_bhayani

AI did not just change how we write code. It changed what the bottleneck in software engineering is. For the last two decades, most engineering processes were designed around one assumption - writing code was expensive, so we built process around protecting engineering time. Show more

3:33 AM · Aug 6, 2026

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EngineeringAI

Don't copy the AI startups that have no business

@GergelyOrosz

A Head of Engineering spent a week in SF. The memo: the impressive teams were still searching for a business. You already have one.

Jul 7, 2026

Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

From a Head of Engineering who spent a week in SF, meeting a bunch of AI startups: "When I was back, I wrote a memo about my impressions. The #1 was how these amazing startups I met: they mostly did not have a business. But we do. So be VERY careful in copying what they do. Show more

2:55 PM · Jul 7, 2026

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StartupsEngineering

How loop engineering actually works

@adxtyahq

Mental model, production loop, and why the hardest part of AI is no longer the model. Video plus a write-up.

Jul 2, 2026

aditya

@adxtyahq

loop engineering has been all over my timeline lately, so i finally sat down and made a proper explanation of how it actually works covers the mental model, the production loop, and why the hardest part of AI isn't the model anymore. also wrote a blog if you'd rather read: Show more

5:35 PM · Jul 2, 2026

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AIAgentsEngineering

Every product has an expiry date

@levelsio

Pieter Levels on Remote OK, Nomads, Photo AI, and the normal-shaped revenue curve. AI products peak faster.

Jun 30, 2026

@levelsio

Replying to @hustlin_heev

Here's some revenue stats that might be interesting: 1) My YouTube channel 2) Remote OK 3) Nomads 4) Photo AI So I think it's just the natural life cycle of a product, with Remote OK it peaked 6 years after starting, with Nomads it peake after 8 years! They all follow a Show more

10:06 PM · Jun 30, 2026

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StartupsIndie

Autoresearch as a community of agents

@karpathy

Don't emulate one PhD student. Emulate a research community. Git is almost, but not quite, the right abstraction.

Mar 8, 2026

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

The next step for autoresearch is that it has to be asynchronously massively collaborative for agents (think: SETI@home style). The goal is not to emulate a single PhD student, it's to emulate a research community of them. Current code synchronously grows a single thread of Show more

6:00 PM · Mar 8, 2026

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Microservices is a confidence scam

@dhh

DHH's polemic on why small teams shatter their own superpower — shared context — and call the debris architecture.

Dec 10, 2025

DHH

@dhh

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of Show more

4:03 PM · Dec 10, 2025

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Engineering

Teaching nanochat to count r's in strawberry

@karpathy

A full guide to adding a capability to a tiny LLM: synthetic tasks, tokenization traps, and why a honeybee-sized model needs the data over-represented.

Oct 24, 2025

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

Last night I taught nanochat d32 how to count 'r' in strawberry (or similar variations). I thought this would be a good/fun example of how to add capabilities to nanochat and I wrote up a full guide here: github.com/karpathy/nanoc… This is done via a new synthetic task Show more

3:35 PM · Oct 24, 2025

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AIEngineering

Karpathy's notes after the Dwarkesh interview

@karpathy

AGI as a decade of agents, animals vs ghosts, RL as a straw, cognitive core, and why he does not want 1,000 lines of unsupervised code.

Oct 18, 2025

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

My pleasure to come on Dwarkesh last week, I thought the questions and conversation were really good. I re-watched the pod just now too. First of all, yes I know, and I'm sorry that I speak so fast :). It's to my detriment because sometimes my speaking thread out-executes my Show more

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self

8:23 PM · Oct 18, 2025

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What do you invest in after AGI?

@levelsio

If most goods go to zero, Pieter's list is land, energy, fabs, luxury, human connection, security, and biotech.

Sep 5, 2025

@levelsio

Great thread about investment post-AGI I've been thinking a lot about it recently and switching my investments up a bit Post-AGI there's a prediction the prices of almost everything will go to close to zero Think for example the food you eat, if it can be farmed fully Show more

Jeffrey Emanuel

@doodlestein

Recently, I've noticed people making a big deal about how we haven't yet seen massive disruption to job markets and knowledge work from AI, and so they're starting to doubt that it will happen soon. And investors are wondering if they can just sort of ignore it for a while.

3:17 PM · Sep 5, 2025

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StartupsAI

Agent Engineering

@swyx

Six elements of the job, why agents are ChatGPT's path to a billion MAU, and why work on it now.

Mar 24, 2025

swyx

@swyx

🆕 talk + essay: Agent Engineering latent.space/p/agent Why we went all in on Agents @aiDotEngineer Defining Agents (thanks to @simonw) The Six Elements of Agent Engineering Why Agents are ChatGPT's path to 1B MAU Why work on Agent Engineering Now live on @latentspacepod! Show more

7:37 PM · Mar 24, 2025

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