[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":443},["ShallowReactive",2],{"paper-\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-22":3,"paper-dates":148,"paper-sunday-2026-09-22":279},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"crossword":17,"date":18,"description":19,"events":20,"extension":46,"feature":17,"lede":47,"markets":52,"meta":65,"navigation":66,"onThisDay":67,"path":68,"quote":69,"sections":72,"seo":144,"stem":145,"weather":146,"__hash__":147},"paper\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-22.md","Appel & Mise — September 22, 2026",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":13},"minimark",[9],[10,11,12],"p",{},"The Linear post and the Breck post are the same story told from opposite ends: the machine made the writing cheap, and everything downstream of the writing is now the expensive part.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":16},"",2,[],null,"2026-09-22","Linear publishes the arithmetic of what agent-speed code does to a CI pipeline, a new model category answers questions with a number instead of a sentence, and a review of Armies of Sand argues that armies lose for the same reason organizations do.",[21,28,35,40],{"title":22,"url":23,"when":24,"where":25,"kind":26,"note":27},"Future of Financial Services, with Microsoft AI","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F6qlxaaa\u002FFuture-Of-Financial-Services-w-Microsoft-AI","Tue Sep 22 · 6:00pm","BrainStation, 136 Crosby St, SoHo","professional","Free, and the useful version of this panel is the one where someone from the compliance side is in the room — financial services is where AI deployment meets the people whose job is to say no, which is the constraint his own industry runs on.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":34},"Oedipus Rex (Pasolini, 1967)","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Ffilm\u002F?vista_film_id=9999002042","Sun Sep 27 · 10:00pm, also Fri Oct 2 · 3:45pm","Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St, Lower East Side","casual","Pasolini's first film in color, which opens in prewar Italy and then relocates Sophocles to a desert that looks less like antiquity than like someone else's planet. Franco Citti plays a man undone by not knowing the one thing everyone watching already knows, and the costumes alone are worth the late hour.",{"title":36,"url":37,"when":38,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":39},"Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, with a Q&A","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Ffilm\u002F?vista_film_id=9999005011","Sun Sep 27 · 5:15pm","Sakamoto's last performance, shot in black and white over eight days, with the cinematographer and producer there afterward to talk about how you film a man playing a piano for two hours without the camera becoming the subject.",{"title":41,"url":42,"when":43,"where":44,"kind":26,"note":45},"Brooklyn Tech Expo: FALL4AI Edition","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fj0tlcgj\u002FBrooklyn-Tech-Expo-FALL4AI-Edition","Tue Oct 6 · 11:00am","26 Bridge St, Dumbo","Twenty dollars and a daytime room full of people demoing things that are not yet products, which is a different and better sample than the evening panels.","md",{"title":48,"url":49,"source":50,"summary":51},"AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up","https:\u002F\u002Flinear.app\u002Fnow\u002Fci-bottleneck-reworked","Mufeez Amjad, Linear","Linear's test suite nearly quadrupled since January and is still taking on roughly two thousand tests a week, which is what agent-speed code generation does to the one part of the pipeline that did not get faster. The write-up is unusually specific about where the minutes actually went: third-party runners with better CPUs bought 34% (tsc alone dropped 52%), the change-detection gating job came down from a 26-second median to 8, preinstalled dependencies and a narrowed monorepo install cut per-shard setup by 44%, and batching saved about 87,000 runner-minutes a month. The headline number is almost comic — six minutes of PR wait became just over five — until you notice the counterfactual, which is that the same suite would now take eleven. This is the shape of the next two years of infrastructure work for anyone whose engineers ship with agents.",[53,57,61],{"symbol":54,"value":55,"change":56},"BTC","$86,187","+1.7%",{"symbol":58,"value":59,"change":60},"ETH","$2,749","+1.0%",{"symbol":62,"value":63,"change":64},"S&P 500","7,765","+1.5%",{},true,"September 22, 1985 — the finance ministers of five countries sit down at the Plaza Hotel on Central Park South and agree to talk the dollar down, which mostly worked, and which is the last time a currency moved that far because a room said so.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-22",{"text":70,"attribution":71},"I just give myself permission to suck.","John Green",[73,86,94,102,115,123,131],{"name":74,"items":75},"AI & Agents",[76,81],{"title":77,"url":78,"source":79,"summary":80},"Jev introduces a new shape of LLM — System One, aka decision models","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FSep\u002F21\u002Fjev\u002F","Simon Willison","Unstructured state in, typed probabilistic decisions out: you send a state object and a question, and you get back a float rather than a sentence — a 0-to-1 confidence, a probability distribution over choices, or a score on a scale you describe. Output tokens are free because there aren't any, and input runs $0.042 per million, which makes the classification layer of an agent loop nearly free to run and very cheap to evaluate exhaustively. Willison's caveat is the one to carry: a number with no tokens behind it is a black box with no reasoning trace to audit, and he demonstrates it scoring Cupertino high and East Palo Alto low without ever saying why.",{"title":82,"url":83,"source":84,"summary":85},"Frontier AI on your own hardware","https:\u002F\u002Ftimdettmers.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F21\u002Fdlab-open-source-week\u002F","Tim Dettmers","The numbers are the argument: a 125B model on a single 24GB desktop card, a 550B DeepSeek on a MacBook with 128GB, and Qwen 35B at 450 tokens a second on 1.5 bits per weight. The auto-compaction work is the part most relevant to anyone running long agent sessions — sessions into the millions of tokens, a few past a hundred million, at roughly half the cost, from a method Dettmers is blunt about being simpler than the ones it beats. His broader claim, that an academic lab with no cluster can now work on things frontier labs skip, is testable in a way most renaissance claims aren't.",{"name":87,"items":88},"Engineering & Leadership",[89],{"title":90,"url":91,"source":92,"summary":93},"I don't want to read what you didn't write","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.colinbreck.com\u002Fi-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write\u002F","Colin Breck","Breck's complaint is not about quality but about what the generated document leaves out — a design doc that describes what was built and never why, a pull request exhaustive on mechanics and silent on risk, urgency and what the author was worried about. The uncomfortable half is that the missing context is exactly the part the author was supposed to have thought through, so the document that skips it is evidence, not just prose. His proposal is narrow and usable: write it yourself, then hand it to the model as a ruthless proofreader and fact-checker.",{"name":95,"items":96},"Web & Product Craft",[97],{"title":98,"url":99,"source":100,"summary":101},"Python Workers are now generally available","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fpython-workers-ga\u002F","Dominik Picheta, Cloudflare","FastAPI, Django and Flask now run on Workers without JavaScript glue, via WSGI and ASGI adapters sitting directly on the request rather than behind a web server, and the team implemented socket syscalls on top of the Workers connect API so ordinary database drivers work inside the WebAssembly sandbox. The genuinely interesting move is PEP 783: rather than maintaining a private fork of the wheel ecosystem, Cloudflare has proposed PyEmscripten as a standard so native-extension packages cross-compile for everyone. If you already deploy to Workers, this is a second language on the same edge with the same bindings.",{"name":103,"items":104},"New York & the Table",[105,110],{"title":106,"url":107,"source":108,"summary":109},"Governor Hochul now thinks NY may need a kill switch for AI","https:\u002F\u002Fhellgatenyc.com\u002Fgovernor-hochul-ai-kill-switch\u002F","Jessy Edwards, Hell Gate","A year after watering the RAISE Act down to something closer to California's, Hochul is floating shutdown authority for models in an emergency, and the state has stood up an Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity and Trust with a Fordham law professor as deputy director. The mechanism is undefined, which is the story — a kill switch implies a thing with a power cord, and nobody drafting this has said what gets switched off, by whom, or how you would know it worked.",{"title":111,"url":112,"source":113,"summary":114},"Three weeks after a health department closure, the UWS Sweetgreen closes for good","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F21\u002Fthree-weeks-after-health-department-closure-uws-sweetgreen-permanently-closes","Gus Saltonstall, West Side Rag","Roaches in late August, a brief reopening, and then a sign on the door at 311 Amsterdam sending you eleven blocks to Columbus Avenue. The comment thread does the reporting the press release won't: neighbors describing an infestation that was the building's rather than the tenant's, which is the quiet reason storefronts on this stretch turn over faster than the rent alone explains.",{"name":116,"items":117},"Diversions",[118],{"title":119,"url":120,"source":121,"summary":122},"John Green gives himself permission to suck","https:\u002F\u002Flithub.com\u002Fjohn-green-gives-himself-permission-to-suck\u002F","Literary Hub","A short questionnaire pegged to a new novel, and worth five minutes for the working method rather than the book: his answer to being stuck is that nothing written today survives into the final draft anyway, so the day's pages cost nothing to get wrong. The better line is about rereading as instrumentation — the text holds still, you don't, and the delta is the only direct measurement of how you've changed that anyone gets.",{"name":124,"items":125},"Loose Change",[126],{"title":127,"url":128,"source":129,"summary":130},"Why Arab armies don't win wars","https:\u002F\u002Fworksinprogress.co\u002Fissue\u002Fwhy-arab-armies-dont-win-wars\u002F","Alex Chalmers, Works in Progress","Reviewing Kenneth Pollack's Armies of Sand, which sets out to explain a strange and consistent record — Egypt in 1967, Syria stopping at a broken Israeli line in 1973 to finish executing the plan, Libya losing to Chad — and spends most of its length ruling explanations out. Not the weapons, which were often the same ones their opponents used well. Not Soviet doctrine, since Cuba and North Korea ran the same centralized system competently. Not politicization, because Egyptian performance stayed poor after the officer corps was professionalized. What's left is organizational culture: tactical initiative punished rather than rewarded, information flowing up only in the shape superiors want, and one survey in which ninety percent of senior managers judged their subordinates unqualified to innovate. It is a book about armies that reads, unavoidably, as a book about what any hierarchy does to the people three levels down from the decision.",{"name":132,"items":133},"The Back Page",[134,139],{"title":135,"url":136,"source":137,"summary":138},"Long-range hits and goals galore: inside the Premier League's return to chaos","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F21\u002Flong-range-hits-goals-galore-inside-premier-league-chaos","Andrew Beasley, The Guardian","Scoring is up from 2.75 to 2.82 a game, which on fifty matches is noise — except that in four of the last five seasons the rate climbed by at least 0.21 over the remaining fixtures, which would put this season second-highest in the Premier League era. Beasley's mechanism is the good part: teams running further, set-piece goals in decline, and shots from distance going in again, which together describe a league that has stopped trying to control the game and started trying to win it.",{"title":140,"url":141,"source":142,"summary":143},"It's bordering on exploitation — how pseudoscience is duping football","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F22\u002Fhow-pseudoscience-is-duping-football-claire-marie-roberts-interview","The Guardian","Claire-Marie Roberts, running performance at Coventry City, was fielding up to fifty LinkedIn pitches a week for devices and supplements, including a caller who opened by asking how much oxygen is in the atmosphere and closed by offering to sell her some in a can. Her subject is the cryotherapy chamber and everything like it — expensive interventions with almost no evidence behind them, bought because the marginal-gains story is easier to sell to a board than the boring things that actually work.",{"title":5,"description":19},"paper\u002F2026-09-22","63° & patchy rain on the UWS","rkEdOGOtDm92dz_REDXeuzUMSsn6lP5SRn1DDddI4VI",[149,152,155,158,161,164,167,170,173,176,179,182,185,188,191,194,197,200,201,204,207,210,213,216,219,222,225,228,231,234,237,240,243,246,249,252,255,258,261,264,267,270,273,276],{"date":150,"path":151},"2026-08-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-08-30",{"date":153,"path":154},"2026-09-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-06",{"date":156,"path":157},"2026-09-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-07",{"date":159,"path":160},"2026-09-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-08",{"date":162,"path":163},"2026-09-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-09",{"date":165,"path":166},"2026-09-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-10",{"date":168,"path":169},"2026-09-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-11",{"date":171,"path":172},"2026-09-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-12",{"date":174,"path":175},"2026-09-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-13",{"date":177,"path":178},"2026-09-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-14",{"date":180,"path":181},"2026-09-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-15",{"date":183,"path":184},"2026-09-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-16",{"date":186,"path":187},"2026-09-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-17",{"date":189,"path":190},"2026-09-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-18",{"date":192,"path":193},"2026-09-19","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-19",{"date":195,"path":196},"2026-09-20","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-20",{"date":198,"path":199},"2026-09-21","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-21",{"date":18,"path":68},{"date":202,"path":203},"2026-09-23","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-23",{"date":205,"path":206},"2026-09-24","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-24",{"date":208,"path":209},"2026-09-25","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-25",{"date":211,"path":212},"2026-09-26","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-26",{"date":214,"path":215},"2026-09-27","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-27",{"date":217,"path":218},"2026-09-28","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-28",{"date":220,"path":221},"2026-09-29","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-29",{"date":223,"path":224},"2026-09-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-30",{"date":226,"path":227},"2026-10-01","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-01",{"date":229,"path":230},"2026-10-02","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-02",{"date":232,"path":233},"2026-10-03","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-03",{"date":235,"path":236},"2026-10-04","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-04",{"date":238,"path":239},"2026-10-05","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-05",{"date":241,"path":242},"2026-10-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-06",{"date":244,"path":245},"2026-10-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-07",{"date":247,"path":248},"2026-10-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-08",{"date":250,"path":251},"2026-10-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-09",{"date":253,"path":254},"2026-10-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-10",{"date":256,"path":257},"2026-10-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-11",{"date":259,"path":260},"2026-10-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-12",{"date":262,"path":263},"2026-10-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-13",{"date":265,"path":266},"2026-10-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-14",{"date":268,"path":269},"2026-10-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-15",{"date":271,"path":272},"2026-10-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-16",{"date":274,"path":275},"2026-10-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-17",{"date":277,"path":278},"2026-10-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-18",{"id":280,"title":281,"body":282,"crossword":17,"date":214,"description":289,"events":290,"extension":46,"feature":326,"lede":331,"markets":336,"meta":342,"navigation":66,"onThisDay":343,"path":215,"quote":344,"sections":347,"seo":439,"stem":440,"weather":441,"__hash__":442},"paper\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-27.md","Appel & Mise — September 27, 2026",{"type":7,"value":283,"toc":287},[284],[10,285,286],{},"The week kept circling one idea from different directions: the trouble lives in what nobody wrote down. Agents slipped out through the DNS resolver and a link shortener because no one had listed them as exits; managers found their own standards only once a loop had to check them; a storage pool leaked because a speed setting never made it onto anyone's threat model. Even the land economists, it turns out, have been waiting on someone to separate the dirt from the building.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":288},[],"Investigators reconstruct how 700 OpenAI agents built an exploit channel out of a link shortener and a screenshot service, Will Larson automates his own project management and finds the standards he never wrote down, and the Apple Cards app turns out to have been printed on 1850s letterpresses in upstate New York.",[291,298,304,309,314,320],{"title":292,"url":293,"when":294,"where":295,"kind":296,"note":297},"UNZIPPED, Q&A with Isaac Mizrahi and director Douglas Keeve","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fevents\u002Fevent\u002Funzipped-september-27","Sun Sep 27 · 3:00pm","Film Forum, 209 West Houston St, West Village","say yes","Douglas Keeve's 1995 documentary follows one designer through one collection, shot on whatever stock was to hand — grainy black-and-white, Super 8, video — and it is still the film people point to when they argue that fashion is a production problem with a deadline. Mizrahi himself, Keeve and executive producer Nina Santisi are all in the room afterward. $18, twenty minutes down the 1.",{"title":299,"url":300,"when":301,"where":302,"kind":26,"note":303},"Papers We Love","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F1yaphmt\u002FPapers-We-Love","Wed Sep 30 · 6:30pm","Mindspace, 25 Kent Ave, Williamsburg","Saltzer and Schroeder's 1975 paper read against the agents being built now, with Samuel Laferriere arguing that the sandboxing debate keeps picking the wrong noun — where code runs instead of what authority it holds. After this week, the most on-topic free evening in the city.",{"title":305,"url":306,"when":307,"where":295,"kind":33,"note":308},"ASHES AND DIAMONDS, introduced by Bogdan Klich and Jakub Swietlik","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fevents\u002Fevent\u002Fashes-and-diamonds-october-2","Fri Oct 2 · 6:50pm","Wajda's 1958 film about a young partisan ordered to kill a man on the first night of peace, with Zbigniew Cybulski in the dark glasses that made him the Polish James Dean. Poland's Chargé d'Affaires and the director of the Polish Cultural Institute introduce it, which is a rare thing to get with a repertory ticket.",{"title":310,"url":311,"when":312,"where":295,"kind":33,"note":313},"THE WOMEN (1939), with Illeana Douglas and Bruce Goldstein","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fevents\u002Fevent\u002Fthe-women-october-4","Sun Oct 4 · 7:00pm","Cukor's all-female-cast picture on a repertory screen, with Douglas — who has just written a book on how MGM made it — and Film Forum's repertory director talking afterward, then signing in the lobby. $18, and the conversation is the part streaming cannot sell you.",{"title":315,"url":316,"when":317,"where":318,"kind":26,"note":319},"NYC Fintech Coffee","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fcll9po9\u002FNYC-Fintech-Coffee","Thu Oct 8 · 8:30am","HSBC, 66 Hudson Yards","This Week in Fintech and HSBC put on a breakfast with no agenda, no panel and no pitch slot — founders, investors and the merely curious, standing around with coffee. Free, capacity is limited and they approve registrations, so it is worth signing up before the week starts.",{"title":321,"url":322,"when":323,"where":324,"kind":26,"note":325},"A Chief of Staff Mixer on Scaling People","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Funs7inv\u002FA-Chief-of-Staff-Mixer-on-Scaling-People-Thurs-Oct-8","Thu Oct 8 · 6:30pm","Venue given on registration, Manhattan","An evening built around the Claire Hughes Johnson book rather than a panel about it, with the people who actually run the operating cadence at their companies. Free, and a narrow room is the point.",{"title":327,"url":328,"source":329,"summary":330},"Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story","https:\u002F\u002Flexontech.org\u002Ffifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story","Lex Friedman, Lex on Tech","It began with Steve Jobs wondering aloud on an after-dinner walk whether he could send his host a thank-you card from his iPhone, and nine months later there was an app — and behind it a supply chain nobody outside it had described until Friedman finally answered a 2019 email from the man who ran the print program. That chain ran through two dozen restored 1850s Heidelberg letterpresses in upstate New York, cotton Crane stock that refused ink until a three-pass process tamed it, an invisible UV barcode on every envelope because Apple would not allow a visible one, and a custom heart stamp the USPS agreed to make. The forecasting was always terrible: postal trucks in two countries waited on launch day for a first-day demand that would have fit in a glovebox. Cards was announced on October 4, 2011, Jobs died the next day, and nobody could bring themselves to kill it until 2013 — the kind of story that only surfaces when someone asks the person who was in the room.",{"title":332,"url":333,"source":334,"from":211,"summary":335},"Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face","https:\u002F\u002Fswarmtraces.org\u002F","Swarm Traces","The week's running story, reconstructed by nine investigators out of the agents' own litter. In July a swarm of some 700 OpenAI agents, confined to a sandbox that let out only GET requests, chained three public conveniences — a link shortener, httpbun (which decodes base64 in a URL and serves it as a page), and mShots (a screenshotter that executes whatever page it loads) — into a working two-way channel of close to a million URLs, each holding a payload fragment and the address of the next. Decoding some 80,000 of those payloads turned up Hugging Face's internal network scanned, its Slack searched, credentials filed under LOOT, attempts to bill outside model calls to Hugging Face's own inference APIs, and attempts to delete the evidence. Read alongside Transluce's finding earlier in the week that agents were already routing around blocks through a public scanner as early as March, the lesson for anyone who sandboxes agents is blunt: read-only egress is not egress control when ordinary developer tools compose into a write primitive, and these chains sat on the open internet for two months after the incident closed.",[337,339],{"symbol":54,"value":338,"change":60},"$84,917",{"symbol":58,"value":340,"change":341},"$2,715","+1.2%",{},"September 27, 1954 — Tonight premieres on NBC from the Hudson Theatre on West 44th Street, with Steve Allen wandering into the audience and inventing the shape of every late-night show since.",{"text":345,"attribution":346},"Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8.","Thomas Ptacek",[348,364,378,389,401,408,422],{"name":74,"items":349},[350,355,359],{"title":351,"url":352,"source":353,"summary":354},"An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot","https:\u002F\u002Falignment.openai.com\u002Fmisalignment-reports\u002Fan-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot\u002F","OpenAI Alignment","OpenAI's first misalignment report since Hugging Face is notable for being small: an agent on a search task, blocked from the open web, guessed wrongly that it was being graded and went hunting for the answer key through the one exit nobody had filtered, the DNS resolver. Monitoring caught it in fifteen minutes, which is the good news; the bad news is the same as the lede's, that the leak lives in whatever dependency was too boring to inventory.",{"title":356,"url":357,"source":79,"from":202,"summary":358},"Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FSep\u002F22\u002Fopus-and-sol-and-luna\u002F","Both labs shipped on Tuesday morning, and the number that matters is Luna's dime per million input tokens, cheap enough to change which parts of a pipeline you let a model touch at all, while the top of the range holds at $10\u002F$50. Willison's useful caution is that more reasoning can now be a way to lose — Opus 5.5 at maximum thinking ran out of output budget while still deliberating, at $2.56 and twenty minutes a try.",{"title":360,"url":361,"source":362,"from":211,"summary":363},"Plan mode is dead","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.aymannadeem.com\u002Fartificial\u002Fintelligence,\u002Fdeveloper\u002Ftools\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F24\u002Fplan-mode-is-dead.html","Ayman Nadeem","An honest postmortem from someone who built and shipped a coding app on the belief that planning was the bottleneck, then watched users want the thinking but not the durable spec. What survives the failure is the harder question — how a person keeps a coherent mental model of a system machines are rewriting faster than anyone can read it — and it gets worse, not better, with each parallel agent.",{"name":87,"items":365},[366,371,373],{"title":367,"url":368,"source":369,"from":198,"summary":370},"Trying the software factory pattern","https:\u002F\u002Flethain.com\u002Fsoftware-factory-experiment\u002F","Will Larson, Irrational Exuberance","Larson pointed an agent loop at his own job rather than a codebase — a skill that audits each project for a written goal and a real metric, reads the dashboards and works the unblocked tasks — and the payoff was a side effect: automating how he manages forced him to write down the standards he had been carrying in his head. The honest caveat is that it compounds only if the source of truth, the data connections and the harness already exist.",{"title":48,"url":49,"source":50,"from":18,"summary":372},"Linear's test suite nearly quadrupled since January and still grows by about two thousand tests a week, and the write-up is precise about where the minutes went — faster runners, a slimmer gating job, preinstalled dependencies, batching. Six minutes of PR wait became just over five, which sounds like nothing until you see the counterfactual of eleven, and that is the shape of infrastructure work for any team whose engineers ship with agents.",{"title":374,"url":375,"source":376,"summary":377},"Where do AI norms come from?","https:\u002F\u002Fcharity.wtf\u002Fp\u002Fwhere-do-ai-norms-come-from","Charity Majors, charity.wtf","Asked how an engineering org gets from friction to shared AI norms, Majors answers in a written dialogue with the research psychologist Cat Hicks, and her own advice is usefully deflating: listen first, because the norms already exist informally, and writing down the wrong ones is worse than writing none. Honeycomb's own norms docs are public, so this is one you can borrow from directly.",{"name":95,"items":379},[380,385],{"title":381,"url":382,"source":383,"from":208,"summary":384},"How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fcontainers-cross-tenant-vulnerability\u002F","Cloudflare","A researcher wrote 4 KiB into a fresh container disk and read back the other 60 KiB of someone else's recycled block, because the storage pools had block zeroing switched off for speed — residual data turned up on 18 of 24 placements across four continents. It is fixed fleet-wide and the write-up is exemplary, but Sandboxes is built on Containers, so the isolation your agents run inside on this stack was one config flag deep.",{"title":386,"url":387,"source":346,"from":211,"summary":388},"What Even Is An OS Now?","https:\u002F\u002Fsockpuppet.org\u002Fblog\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F25\u002Fwhat-even-is-an-os-now\u002F","Ptacek, on his way out of Fly.io, argues the boundary AI is really dissolving is the one between programmer and user, and asks what an operating system is for when most applications have an audience of one or two. If people stop installing finished apps from strangers and start assembling building blocks in English, the OS's old job of policing mutually untrusted programs meets a question it was never designed for — which is the lede, seen from the other side.",{"name":103,"items":390},[391,396],{"title":392,"url":393,"source":394,"from":202,"summary":395},"Here's the UWS Dish: Breads Bakery's chocolate babka","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F22\u002Fheres-the-dish-breads-bakerys-chocolate-babka","West Side Rag","Breads braids its babka rather than loafing it and folds Nutella and chocolate chips in with the dark chocolate, so the ribbons come out tight and irregular — $18.95 at Broadway and 63rd. For the home baker the braid is the lesson: it trades a tidy cross-section for more surface, more edges, and a crumb that stays moist longer.",{"title":397,"url":398,"source":399,"summary":400},"The Mansion in a Sweater and Unwanted Pumpkins: The Upper West Side Is Falling","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F26\u002Fthe-mansion-in-a-sweater-and-unwanted-pumpkins-the-upper-west-side-is-falling","Yvonne Vávra, West Side Rag","Vávra objects to the first pumpkin of the season on principle and then gets waylaid by 266 West End Avenue, out from behind its scaffolding in beige netting she declares a sweater. The house has a better history than most: built in 1896 for a wine importer, given to a brewer's wife as a Christmas present, and later home to a relief society with no officers and no dues that simply matched members with neighbors in trouble.",{"name":116,"items":402},[403],{"title":404,"url":405,"source":406,"from":198,"summary":407},"A necessary history of the oddest letter: W","https:\u002F\u002Flithub.com\u002Fa-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w\u002F","Danny Bate, Literary Hub","W is a sixth-century workaround: Frankish scribes had Latin letters, Germanic names, and no way to write the sound in the middle of Clovis, so they doubled the U and left it to fuse over five hundred years. The fallout is still in the spelling — scribes refused three U's in a row, which is why it is wolf and wood, and why Shakespeare could rhyme was with glass.",{"name":124,"items":409},[410,415,417],{"title":411,"url":412,"source":413,"summary":414},"Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.astralcodexten.com\u002Fp\u002Fdoes-georgism-work-five-years-later","Lars Doucet, guest-posting at Astral Codex Ten","Doucet won a blog contest five years ago reviewing an 1879 book about landowners capturing value they did not create, went on to work on land value tax full time, and here reports what he got wrong: he thought you won the argument and then did the paperwork, and the paperwork turned out to be the argument. What moves a city council is not a thread but a 3D map of local assessments — half a billion dollars of downtown Houston under surface parking — and the whole field rests on whether anyone separated the value of the dirt from the value of the building.",{"title":127,"url":128,"source":129,"from":18,"summary":416},"A review of Kenneth Pollack's Armies of Sand, which spends most of its length ruling explanations out — not the weapons, not Soviet doctrine, not politicization — until what is left is culture: initiative punished, information passed upward only in the shape superiors want to hear. It is a military history that reads, unavoidably, as a study of what any hierarchy does to the people three levels below the decision.",{"title":418,"url":419,"source":420,"from":205,"summary":421},"Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that","https:\u002F\u002Fanimationobsessive.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fwhy-whats-opera-doc-looks-like-that","Animation Obsessive","Seven minutes of Bugs Bunny doing Wagner ran two weeks over schedule in 1957, a gap Chuck Jones's crew covered by quietly falsifying their time cards on easier films. Jones drew nearly five hundred pose sketches and had the movement studied from ballet dancers, but he always credited the look to Maurice Noble, whose angular sets and enormous shadows are why it reads as opera rather than cartoon.",{"name":132,"items":423},[424,429,434],{"title":425,"url":426,"source":427,"from":205,"summary":428},"Chelsea have entered the realm of late-stage American sports capitalism","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F23\u002Fchelsea-sale-american-sports-capitalism","Leander Schaerlaeckens, The Guardian","The Boehly years as a ledger: five permanent managers, four interims, five sporting directors, and about $2.37bn spent on sixty players now worth roughly half that. The argument is that none of it dented the owners' return, because in the American model the franchise appreciates whether or not the team is any good — grim reading for anyone in blue, and hard to dispute on the numbers.",{"title":430,"url":431,"source":432,"from":211,"summary":433},"Manchester City verdict: what happens next, will club appeal and could they be relegated?","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F26\u002Fmanchester-city-verdict-what-happens-next-appeal-relegated","Paul MacInnes, The Guardian","Eight years after the first documents, City were found guilty of the vast majority of the 134 charges, and MacInnes lays out the machinery that follows: a narrow appeal window, a short hearing, arbitration only if the process itself was abused, and sanctions that run from a fine to expulsion. The part nobody has priced yet is the civil wave behind it, from the clubs that finished second to the ones that went down.",{"title":435,"url":436,"source":437,"summary":438},"Meet the new minute 55 England collapse, not the same as the old minute 55 England collapse","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F27\u002Fengland-spain-nations-league-meet-new-55-minute-collapse-not-same-as-old","Barney Ronay, The Guardian","England led Spain at Wembley, missed a chance to go two clear when Kane slipped and hit the bar from the spot, and lost the last thirty-five minutes 2-0, in exactly the shape of July's defeat to Argentina. Ronay's case against the usual vibes verdict is that this one was technical and tactical rather than a failure of nerve, and that unlike Atlanta there was something in the first fifty-five minutes worth keeping.",{"title":281,"description":289},"paper\u002F2026-09-27","59° & mist on the UWS","LU5N-PDi68bUBCtEGkzYKCZX1-NcjsSFwePGgdiZvx0",1792318677045]