A clever hack of the Firefox address bar that demonstrates just how much functionality you can pack into this seemingly simple browser feature.
Cognitive load is the amount of thinking a developer needs to do to solve a problem. This article makes the strong case for development practices that minimize cognitive load. This concept resonates with my strongly, and is a good reminder to keep things simple.
A great description of tech Twitter's distinct subculture of VCs, founders, anonymous builders, and indie hackers. Despite the shitposting, this corner of Twitter is at the bleeding edge of tech, where news breaks and trends originate. New product launches, memetic narratives, side projects and startup stories are surfaced here every day.
This was my glimpse of GPT-3. I remember how mind blowing this was in 2020 to see natural language to code for the first time. Looking back on this half a decade later, what seemed magical then has become trivial with today's tools. I experimented with my own early GPT apps in college ( infrastructure-as-text and Versify, both inactive) but underestimated just how rapidly AI would improve.
The length of task that AI agents can complete independently has been doubling roughly every seven months since 2019, and more recently doubling every four months. If this trend holds, then by the end of the decade, AI agents will be able to complete tasks that would take human developers weeks of work. This is one of the most important trends in technology and something to monitor closely over the coming years.