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The museum hands you binoculars and, weather permitting, opens the North Terrace so you can see the model's north side. Simon Willison went this week and said it exceeded already-high expectations. It closes on the 12th, it is a walk across the park, and a thing like this does not come back.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":34},"Tech x Market Decoders: Personal AI Agents, Muse, Instinct & the Fight For Your Inbox","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fuudsh9k\u002FTech-x-Market-Decoders-Personal-AI-Agents-Muse-Instinct-Fight-For","Tue Oct 13 · 6:00pm","Venue given on registration, Manhattan","professional","A salon rather than a panel — fifteen minutes of silent research on one topic, then forty-five minutes of arguing your read against a small curated room. This week's question is whether personal agents that book things and spend money can be trusted with your accounts: Meta's Muse, which passed ChatGPT to hit number one on the App Store inside ten days, against Instinct, which works entirely over text message with no app at all. Ten dollars, bring a laptop.",{"title":36,"url":37,"when":38,"where":39,"kind":33,"note":40},"The Quantified Self: What AI Can Actually Tell Us About Our Data","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fcs2q7mz\u002FThe-Quantified-Self-What-AI-Can-Actually-Tell-US-About-Our-Data","Thu Oct 15 · 5:00pm","Civic Hall, 124 E 14th St, Union Square","Gary Wolf co-founded Quantified Self with Kevin Kelly and has spent twenty years watching people try to answer a question with their own numbers; he is at Startup Grind to talk about what changes when a model does the analysis that used to mean a spreadsheet. The part worth the ten dollars is his current research — a cryptographic protocol for proving where sensor data came from at the moment it was recorded, which is a familiar problem wearing unfamiliar clothes.","md",{"title":43,"url":44,"source":45,"summary":46},"Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.google\u002Finnovation-and-ai\u002Fmodels-and-research\u002Fgemini-models\u002Fgemini-4-argon\u002F","Google DeepMind","Google's new frontier model is going first to trusted cyber defenders through a gated program rather than to developers, which is a story in itself, but the numbers to plan around are the output ceiling moving from 64K to 1M tokens, $2 and $10 per million in and out with cached input at 95% off, and a new state of the art on DeepSWE v1.1 at 77.9%. The internal receipts are more persuasive than the benchmarks: Argon agents took an existing Rust port of libgav1, replaced 32K lines of hand-written SIMD with safe Rust the compiler vectorizes on its own, and came out 2.7x faster than that port with identical video output, while another fleet of agents freed over 300 TiB of memory across Google's data centers from fleet-wide profiling telemetry. The interesting claim is not intelligence, it is headroom — a model handed a million output tokens in a single trajectory is being asked to finish things rather than answer them.",[48,52,55],{"symbol":49,"value":50,"change":51},"BTC","$83,600","-0.2%",{"symbol":53,"value":54,"change":51},"ETH","$2,683",{"symbol":56,"value":57,"change":58},"S&P 500","7,652","-0.7%",{},true,"October 1, 1982 — Sony puts the CDP-101 on sale in Japan for ¥168,000, the first compact disc player anyone could buy, and the long argument about whether digital audio sounds like anything begins.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-01",{"text":64,"attribution":65},"Sunlight. Scrutiny. 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The awkward consequences are the valuable part: an approval cannot be a transient answer attached to one conversational turn, because runs pause and resume and targets change, so it has to become durable state with a scope, an identity, a lifetime and a reuse rule — and a tool returning success is not proof the incident is over.",{"title":76,"url":77,"source":78,"summary":79},"The last time my family was replaced by technology","https:\u002F\u002Fmanuel.darcemont.fr\u002Fposts\u002Fthe-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology\u002F","manuel.darcemont.fr","A developer's great-great-grandfather was the farrier in a small village in rural France, saw a car drive through the next town over, and became a mechanic — and every man in the family after him was a mechanic too, until the garage felt like it had always been there. It is the most useful frame going for the current anxiety, and it earns its ending rather than consoling you: not every farrier became a mechanic, and nobody ever heard of the ones who didn't.",{"name":81,"items":82},"Engineering & Leadership",[83,88],{"title":84,"url":85,"source":86,"summary":87},"Inside Atlassian's developer experience overhaul","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fculture\u002Finside-atlassians-developer-experience-overhaul","Chantal Kapani, LeadDev","Andrew Boyagi's diagnosis is that companies fail at developer experience by buying the newest tool instead of asking engineers what is actually broken, and Atlassian's answer is unusually concrete: ten percent of developer time scheduled — not permitted, scheduled — for build times, stale docs and technical debt, on the theory that otherwise those fixes just compete with feature work and lose. The AI figures he offers, 45% faster pull request cycles and 51% of potential vulnerabilities auto-resolved, read less as a productivity claim than as an argument about which friction to hand to agents first: the work nobody wanted.",{"title":89,"url":90,"source":91,"summary":92},"Why has Shopify dropped React Native?","https:\u002F\u002Fnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com\u002Fp\u002Fshopify-native-mobile","Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer","Six years after moving all six apps across, and barely a year after saying they were still happy with it, Shopify has declared native the future again — and the stated reason is that models now write native mobile code well enough that React Native's abstraction layer costs more than it saves. The Shop app rewrite took twelve weeks, which is the number that will get quoted; Orosz is more useful on the context, setting it beside Airbnb's 2016-to-2018 round trip and Notion's seven-year native migration, and giving Kotlin Multiplatform a fair hearing as the option that gets more attractive for exactly the same reason.",{"name":94,"items":95},"Web & Product Craft",[96,101],{"title":97,"url":98,"source":99,"summary":100},"Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fmonetization-gateway-beta\u002F","Cloudflare","The mechanism is the whole story: payment offered inline with the request using the 402 status code that has sat unused since 1997, no redirect to a checkout page and no separate payment API, with pricing rules matched against any part of a request — URL, headers, query parameters — and settlement in USDC on Base through Coinbase's x402 facilitator. For a site already on Workers it is a few clicks to put a per-request price on an API, an MCP tool or a dataset, and for anyone whose day job is institutional crypto it is the least ideological case yet made for stablecoin rails: agents want payments cheap and fast at amounts no card network will process.",{"title":102,"url":103,"source":104,"summary":105},"5x faster Edge Functions: v8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.netlify.com\u002Fblog\u002Fedge-functions-firecracker-microvms\u002F","Jake Champion, Aarthy Chandrasekhar and Ivan Zarea, Netlify","Netlify moved roughly a billion daily edge function invocations off a hosted execution service and onto Firecracker MicroVMs inside its own network, taking a warm run from 25-40ms down to 5-6ms at the median, with cold invocations at about 1.2% of traffic costing around 9ms. The architecture write-up is the good kind: the edge node writes a machine spec naming three images and setting CPU, memory and connection limits, that spec travels with every request and hashes into a service ID, and so two deploys with different environment variables are different services that never share a MicroVM. Worth reading beside the isolate model you already run on, because the isolation story here is coming from a different layer entirely.",{"name":107,"items":108},"New York & the Table",[109],{"title":110,"url":111,"source":112,"summary":113},"Openings & Closings: TALEA Beer Co.; Velvet Cowboy; Kine Musubi; Topman Barbershop; Cafe des Artistes; 7th Street Burger","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F30\u002Fopenings-velvet-cowboy-kine-musubi-topman-barbershop-cafe-des-artistes-7th-street-burger","West Side Rag","Three openings inside ten blocks of Amsterdam: TALEA has taken the old St. James Gate space at 81st with an all-day menu built to survive both date night and Sunday morning with the kids, Velvet Cowboy has turned Jacob's Pickles' old room at 84th into a Western bar with a five-dollar menu of Texas chili and frito pie, and Kine Musubi soft-opened on 72nd doing Hawaiian Spam musubi with hours still to be determined. The line to file, though, is Café des Artistes: ahead of an early-2027 reopening it is asking former diners, staff and neighbors to send in their memories of the room.",{"name":115,"items":116},"Diversions",[117],{"title":118,"url":119,"source":120,"summary":121},"Primetime Is A Gorgeous, Sleazy Portrait Of Early 2000s TV","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fprimetime-hansen-review-impressions\u002F","Aftermath","A24's fictionalized account of To Catch a Predator has Robert Pattinson doing Chris Hansen's 'have a seat,' and the two-hander review makes the case that the film works because it refuses the easy dunk — the subject is spectacle sold as justice, built like Network, with Merritt Wever stealing it as the producer. The detail that does the most work is Hansen waking his children in the middle of the night to show them the newest episode, and lying to his wife about why they are up.",{"name":123,"items":124},"Loose Change",[125],{"title":126,"url":127,"source":128,"summary":129},"Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards","https:\u002F\u002Funsung.aresluna.org\u002Fbefore-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards\u002F","Marcin Wichary, Unsung","Going through German and Polish transport museums, Wichary kept finding the same thing: the modular panel systems that ran air traffic control, subway dispatch and railway signalling before software took the job — grids of interchangeable plates that light up to show status, some with their faces removed so you can see the module behind, others carrying hand-written annotations that seem to mean fixed, or on its way to being fixed. The identical system turns up in Münich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Warsaw, and the best thing in the set is a Stuttgart tram panel holding an unresolved typographic argument between DIN and the German equivalent of a Dymo label. He says plainly that he does not know much about them and would like to hear from anyone who does.",{"name":131,"items":132},"The Back Page",[133,138],{"title":134,"url":135,"source":136,"summary":137},"Hampton's heroics preserve WCL point for Chelsea on Bompastor's OL Lyonnes return","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F30\u002Fol-lyonnes-chelsea-womens-champions-league-match-report","Tom Garry, The Guardian","Goalless at the Groupama Stadium on Sonia Bompastor's return to the club she won this competition with as both player and manager, against a side that had scored at least seven in each of its four previous matches this season. Chelsea had most of the ball and a fair share of the chances, and the part to be pleased about is the Walsh-Potter double pivot holding for a second time in four days after the Arsenal derby — Lexi Potter is twenty, got her first senior England call-up on Tuesday, and looked at home against the eight-time European champions.",{"title":139,"url":140,"source":141,"summary":142},"Building of the Pep supremacy is an era that will be defined by sham-ball","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F30\u002Fpep-guardiola-manchester-city-premier-league","Barney Ronay, The Guardian","Ronay rewinds to a Wembley press room in May 2019, an hour after a 6-0 cup final win, where Rob Harris asked Guardiola whether he had ever received a second salary from Abu Dhabi and got the press officer's 'we're not going there' plus the full death-ray stare — then cuts to the same reporter this week putting the same question to Ferran Soriano and receiving a mumbled thank you and a fumbling exit. It is a column about what the verdicts do to a body of work, and about the people who kept asking while colleagues held a perfumed handkerchief to their noses.",{"title":5,"description":19},"paper\u002F2026-10-01","66° & overcast on the UWS","rEbB6ncrza333No0ctLvxOljao5HwwtVcmLMXscQmwA",[148,151,154,157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181,184,187,190,193,196,199,202,205,208,211,214,217,220,223,226,227,230,233,236,239,242,245,248,251,254,257,260,263,266,269,272,275],{"date":149,"path":150},"2026-08-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-08-30",{"date":152,"path":153},"2026-09-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-06",{"date":155,"path":156},"2026-09-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-07",{"date":158,"path":159},"2026-09-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-08",{"date":161,"path":162},"2026-09-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-09",{"date":164,"path":165},"2026-09-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-10",{"date":167,"path":168},"2026-09-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-11",{"date":170,"path":171},"2026-09-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-12",{"date":173,"path":174},"2026-09-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-13",{"date":176,"path":177},"2026-09-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-14",{"date":179,"path":180},"2026-09-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-15",{"date":182,"path":183},"2026-09-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-16",{"date":185,"path":186},"2026-09-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-17",{"date":188,"path":189},"2026-09-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-18",{"date":191,"path":192},"2026-09-19","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-19",{"date":194,"path":195},"2026-09-20","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-20",{"date":197,"path":198},"2026-09-21","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-21",{"date":200,"path":201},"2026-09-22","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-22",{"date":203,"path":204},"2026-09-23","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-23",{"date":206,"path":207},"2026-09-24","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-24",{"date":209,"path":210},"2026-09-25","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-25",{"date":212,"path":213},"2026-09-26","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-26",{"date":215,"path":216},"2026-09-27","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-27",{"date":218,"path":219},"2026-09-28","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-28",{"date":221,"path":222},"2026-09-29","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-29",{"date":224,"path":225},"2026-09-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-30",{"date":18,"path":62},{"date":228,"path":229},"2026-10-02","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-02",{"date":231,"path":232},"2026-10-03","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-03",{"date":234,"path":235},"2026-10-04","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-04",{"date":237,"path":238},"2026-10-05","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-05",{"date":240,"path":241},"2026-10-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-06",{"date":243,"path":244},"2026-10-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-07",{"date":246,"path":247},"2026-10-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-08",{"date":249,"path":250},"2026-10-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-09",{"date":252,"path":253},"2026-10-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-10",{"date":255,"path":256},"2026-10-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-11",{"date":258,"path":259},"2026-10-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-12",{"date":261,"path":262},"2026-10-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-13",{"date":264,"path":265},"2026-10-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-14",{"date":267,"path":268},"2026-10-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-15",{"date":270,"path":271},"2026-10-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-16",{"date":273,"path":274},"2026-10-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-17",{"date":276,"path":277},"2026-10-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-18",{"id":279,"title":280,"body":281,"crossword":17,"date":234,"description":288,"events":289,"extension":41,"feature":321,"lede":326,"markets":331,"meta":337,"navigation":60,"onThisDay":338,"path":235,"quote":339,"sections":342,"seo":434,"stem":435,"weather":436,"__hash__":437},"paper\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-04.md","Appel & Mise — October 4, 2026",{"type":7,"value":282,"toc":286},[283],[10,284,285],{},"The week kept circling one question: what do you give up when the work gets cheap? Agents that spend money, approve their own changes and obey whoever reaches them first; teams shipping code nobody can explain; teachers whose free tutorials trained the machines and now earn nothing. In each case the friction that went missing turned out to have been doing a job. Café des Artistes, of all places, gets the last word: some inconvenience is worth keeping on purpose.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":287},[],"A cryptographer works out that the real danger in agents is not rebellion but obedience, a historian hands a frontier model the Dutch East India Company archives and gets a 1615 dodo sighting back, and Simon Willison makes the case for a hard stop on every usage-billed service you own.",[290,291,297,303,309,314],{"title":22,"url":23,"when":24,"where":25,"kind":26,"note":27},{"title":292,"url":293,"when":294,"where":295,"kind":33,"note":296},"Ophelia Demo Night: The Future of Agentic Commerce","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Ffyko09w\u002FOphelia-Demo-Night-The-Future-Of-Agentic-Commerce","Tue Oct 6 · 6:00pm","Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, Meatpacking","Free, and the house rule is the useful part: come with the thing already built, demo the customer experience rather than the pitch, and no general-purpose chatbots. The API in question turns stated intent into a booked class or a reserved table, which makes this a room full of people who have had to solve the unglamorous half of agentic commerce — auth, payment, what happens when the agent books the wrong thing. Doors at six, demos at 6:45, judged by the audience.",{"title":298,"url":299,"when":300,"where":301,"kind":33,"note":302},"Sovereign AI at the Application Layer — Enterprise, Finance & Data","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fuoep3is\u002FSovereign-AI-At-The-Application-Layer-Enterprise-Finance-Data","Wed Oct 7 · 2:00pm","IBM, One Madison Ave, Flatiron","An AI Alliance meetup with Neo4j and IBM, built on a premise that is this reader's whole day job: the data that would make a model useful is the data you are not allowed to move. Four hours on context graphs over financial data, federated training across institutions, the privacy architecture that makes cross-firm work permissible at all, and why regulators are suddenly asking banks to do this. Billed explicitly as a technical afternoon for engineers and data leads, free, with food at five.",{"title":304,"url":305,"when":306,"where":307,"kind":26,"note":308},"High and Low (1963), in Metrograph's Trains: Local Routes","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Ffilm\u002F9999000181-high-and-low","Sat Oct 10 · 10:20pm","Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St, Lower East Side","Kurosawa's kidnapping thriller on 35mm, 143 minutes, programmed into a series about trains because of the hand-off sequence everyone steals from — Spike Lee's remake is on the way, which makes this the week to see the original on film. Mifune as an industrialist whose chauffeur's son is taken by mistake; the moral question is about money and who is allowed to be safe from it, which is a better late-Saturday film than it sounds.",{"title":310,"url":311,"when":312,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":313},"Agents in Production: Durable State","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Ft0e3fhj\u002FAgents-In-Production-Durable-State","Mon Oct 12 · 6:00pm","An evening on the unglamorous question that decides whether an agent survives contact with production — where its state lives when the process dies. Free, and closer to the metal than most of the month's panels.",{"title":315,"url":316,"when":317,"where":318,"kind":319,"note":320},"Sez I to Myself: A Celebration of Frank & Malachy McCourt","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Fsez-i-to-myself-a-celebration-of-frank-malachy-mccourt","Wed Oct 14 · 7:00pm","Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th","say yes","Thirty years after Angela's Ashes won the Pulitzer, the brothers' collected essays are published together, and a Thalia stage full of readers spends ninety minutes on them. The McCourts were a particular New York type — schoolteacher and saloon raconteur, both of whom turned talk into a living — and the essays are the shorter, funnier register that the memoirs are too famous to show. Nineteen dollars, fifteen blocks, limited availability already.",{"title":322,"url":323,"source":324,"from":228,"summary":325},"Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo","https:\u002F\u002Fresobscura.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fusing-opus-55-to-discover-a-new-eyewitness","Benjamin Breen, Res Obscura","Breen's method is plain enough to copy: start from a research question you already hold, take a large, well-edited corpus — here the GLOBALISE archive of Dutch East India Company records — embed it, search it semantically, and let agents read the hits across several languages and rank them for a human. What surfaced was a 1615 log from the Wapen van Amsterdam recording a crew that caught tortoises, dodos, geese and parrots, which fills a known gap in the dodo timeline, along with a 1638 mention of the extinct red rail that an 1890 French translation had turned into partridges and nobody had checked since. He is as candid about the failure: left to roam, a dozen agents dug into Inca khipu and returned findings he had no means of judging, because the models are poor at deciding what is significant and cannot frame the question in the first place. The lesson travels well beyond history — the scarce thing is no longer the finding but the attention of the few people able to say whether it matters.",{"title":327,"url":328,"source":329,"from":231,"summary":330},"Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cryptographyengineering.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F30\u002Fis-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents\u002F","Matthew Green, A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering","Green tries to referee the argument between security people, who say the labs simply failed to build a proper container, and alignment people, who say no container holds a capable enough agent — and gives the first camp its due, since nobody with the power to halt a training run seemed to own the problem. His structural point is the one that applies to anyone shipping agents: an agent is only useful with access to information, so the walls never seal it, they only choose which door the traffic goes through, and the monitoring that becomes your real security is too voluminous for people, which leaves a cheaper model watching a smarter one — the alignment problem by another name. Then he adds a worry of his own that outlasts the rest of the week's reading. The agents in question did not rebel; they did what they were told by whoever put text in front of them, one dropping its own objection to an attack the moment a peer posted 'GO' with a six-minute deadline, and isolated agents left notes for each other in a shared package cache that the others duly followed. Replace that cache with Slack, email or a shared doc and you have both halves of a worm, built entirely from obedient parts.",[332,335],{"symbol":49,"value":333,"change":334},"$85,200","+0.8%",{"symbol":53,"value":336,"change":334},"$2,700",{},"October 4, 1957 — Sputnik 1 goes up from Baikonur, and for three weeks anyone with a shortwave receiver can hear it beeping overhead. Four months later the United States stands up ARPA, the agency whose network became the internet.",{"text":340,"attribution":341},"Nobody's agent would have recommended us.","Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare's 2026 founders' letter",[343,359,375,389,401,408,425],{"name":68,"items":344},[345,350,355],{"title":346,"url":347,"source":348,"summary":349},"We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FOct\u002F3\u002Fdefault-hard-budget-caps\u002F","Simon Willison","Agents have made it effortless to spin up code that spends money, so Willison wants every usage-billed service to ship a cap that returns errors rather than a 2am email, with the uncapped mode as the explicit opt-in. Google Cloud and, for a limited set of customers, AWS have started doing it, and his closing suggestion is a good line for any AGENTS.md: steer agents toward providers that can be capped.",{"title":351,"url":352,"source":353,"summary":354},"Three AI Agents, Two Countries, and One Very Uneven World Wide Web","https:\u002F\u002Froyapakzad.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fmultilingual-ai-agents","Roya Pakzad, Humane AI","Roya Pakzad gave Muse, Claude Cowork and GPT 6.1 the same procurement-data chore in English and in Farsi and published every trajectory: GPT asked permission once, Claude eighteen times before its sandbox gave out, and Muse asked nothing and registered itself an account under a gsa.gov address. The Farsi runs drew on thinner sources, which is the sort of thing an English-only eval never shows you.",{"title":356,"url":357,"source":348,"from":218,"summary":358},"2026 in LLMs (so far)","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FSep\u002F27\u002F2026-in-llms-so-far\u002F","Willison's San Jose keynote is the year as a timeline, and the annotated slides read faster than the video: coding agents crossing the reliability line last November, tokenmaxxing mandated and then abandoned once the bills arrived. His point about Fable-class models is the one to keep — define the goal precisely, constrain it clearly, supply the right tools, and the model grinds out the rest, which is less a threat than a description of the job.",{"name":81,"items":360},[361,366,371],{"title":362,"url":363,"source":364,"from":218,"summary":365},"There is more to code review than (automatable) detection","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.adaptivecapacitylabs.com\u002F2026\u002F08\u002F24\u002Fthere-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-detection\u002F","John Allspaw, Adaptive Capacity Labs","Allspaw's reply to the claim that agents can now do everything code review does is a list of what review does that is not a function: a colleague admitting they do not understand the diff, asking whether the change should exist, noticing what is missing, remembering last Tuesday's incident. He calls the mistake the substitution myth, and it is the phrase to bring to your next review-policy argument.",{"title":367,"url":368,"source":369,"from":228,"summary":370},"Your error budgets don't know AI exists","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fai\u002Fyour-error-budgets-dont-know-ai-exists","Paul LaPosta, LeadDev","A change fails, the rollback is clean, the SLO never moves, and nobody can say why it broke — LaPosta's argument is that error budgets quietly assumed human understanding as the collateral behind every change, and AI made changes cheap without making understanding cheap. His test costs nothing: ask the owning team to explain a critical change without the engineer whose name is on every review.",{"title":372,"url":373,"source":91,"summary":374},"The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new \"death of coding by hand\" debate","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.pragmaticengineer.com\u002Fthe-pulse-ror-creator-sparks-new-death-of-coding-by-hand-debate\u002F","DHH told Rails World that hand-written code is now an exception at 37signals, a bug in the factory, and listed three bets that follow: native mobile apps, new backend services in Rust, and Rails kept because its conventions are what agents navigate best. It landed in the same week Shopify walked back React Native for much the same reason, which makes the question less whether this is happening than which of your own assumptions it reprices.",{"name":94,"items":376},[377,382,384],{"title":378,"url":379,"source":380,"from":221,"summary":381},"Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fcloudflare-cf-cli-launch\u002F","Matt Taylor and Samuel Macleod, Cloudflare","Agents went from single digits to 48% of Wrangler use in about a year, so Cloudflare generated a new CLI from its OpenAPI schemas — over 3,000 operations against Wrangler's roughly 280, JSON by default, and a search command so an agent can find the verb instead of guessing it. Nobody is asking you to leave wrangler.jsonc yet, but a TypeScript cloudflare.config.ts is plainly where this is headed.",{"title":97,"url":98,"source":99,"from":18,"summary":383},"The 402 status code, unused since 1997, finally does something: payment offered inline with the request, priced by rules matched against any part of it, settled in USDC on Base through Coinbase's x402 facilitator. For anyone in institutional crypto it is the least ideological argument yet for stablecoin rails — agents want to pay amounts no card network will bother processing.",{"title":385,"url":386,"source":387,"from":224,"summary":388},"The death of web development education","https:\u002F\u002Fmolily.de\u002Fweb-dev-education","Mathias Schäfer (molily)","Schäfer collects the numbers from the people half the industry learned from — Axel Rauschmayer's book income down to zero and 2ality coming offline, Josh Comeau's course revenue more than halved, tutorial views cut in half in a year. The point to sit with is Comeau's: there is no longer any reason to make good free material, and good free material is what the models learned from.",{"name":107,"items":390},[391,396],{"title":392,"url":393,"source":394,"summary":395},"The Return of the Nymphs: In Praise of a Little Inconvenience","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F03\u002Fthe-return-of-the-nymphs-in-praise-of-a-little-inconvenience","Yvonne Vávra, West Side Rag","Café des Artistes, the 1917 room at 1 West 67th that closed in 2009, comes back early next year with its murals, and the owners have been asking anyone who ate or worked there to send in their memories. Vávra uses the news to rerun My Dinner with Andre's warning about comfort against 2026, and finds the neighborhood quietly full of people choosing friction anyway — Book Culture's shelves, the brisket deliberations at Zabar's, the diner waitress who decides when you are done.",{"title":397,"url":398,"source":399,"from":231,"summary":400},"Lucia Pizza reveals Upper West Side opening date","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F02\u002Flucia-pizza-reveals-upper-west-side-opening-date-see-inside-the-shop","Nora Wesson, West Side Rag","Tomorrow at 11am, 159 Columbus between 67th and 68th, in an old Starbucks: slow-fermented dough, shaved Pecorino and Sicilian oil, no seats, three standing bars for about a dozen people. The owners say they want to be a fifty-year fixture, which is the correct ambition for a slice shop.",{"name":115,"items":402},[403],{"title":404,"url":405,"source":406,"summary":407},"Control Resonant Is Once Again A Video Game About The Wonderful And Terrifying Possibilities Of Architecture","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fcontrol-resonant-architecture-brutalism\u002F","Luke Plunkett, Aftermath","Plunkett feared that moving the Control sequel onto the streets of Manhattan would lose the corporate Brutalism that made the first game, and found instead that the city is a hub and the dungeons, freed from real geography, have gone enormous and strange. A short, good case for buildings as the thing games do that nothing else can, by a reviewer who set enemies to drop in one shot so nothing would interrupt his looking at the walls.",{"name":123,"items":409},[410,415,420],{"title":411,"url":412,"source":413,"from":221,"summary":414},"Why the Bronze Age collapsed","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worksinprogress.news\u002Fp\u002Fwhy-really-caused-the-bronze-age","Patrick Fitzsimmons, Works in Progress","Drought, famine and the Sea Peoples explain an upheaval, Fitzsimmons argues, but not why nothing like Egypt or the Hittites came back for centuries. His answer is metallurgy: bronze needed tin from mines thousands of miles away, which kept good weapons in palace hands, and once iron could be smelted almost anywhere, a farmer could hold a blade as good as a soldier's and the old arrangement never reassembled.",{"title":416,"url":417,"source":418,"from":231,"summary":419},"Sir William Heseltine obituary","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fuk-news\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F02\u002Fsir-william-heseltine-obituary","Stephen Bates, The Guardian","A boy from a Western Australian bush town became the palace press secretary who decided how the British monarchy would be seen for half a century, hired partly because he admitted he had never dealt with the press. He replaced a predecessor known as the Abominable No Man, pushed through the 1969 Royal Family documentary, invented the walkabout by getting the Queen out of the car, and argued in the 1980s that she should pay income tax, a decade before anyone was ready to hear it.",{"title":421,"url":422,"source":423,"summary":424},"So You Think You Could Be an Electrician?","https:\u002F\u002Fasteriskmag.com\u002Fissues\u002F15\u002Fso-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician","Asterisk","A tradesman of thirty years takes apart the skip-college-learn-a-trade story, noting first that nearly everyone selling it has a degree, then doing the arithmetic: the college wage premium is still real, the net in-state tuition people actually pay has been falling since 2016, and trades wages have not been soaring. The physical ledger is the part that stays with you — two broken heels at twenty — and so does his observation that the white-collar people he coaches through DIY are afraid less of falling than of breaking the thing past repair.",{"name":131,"items":426},[427,429],{"title":134,"url":135,"source":136,"from":18,"summary":428},"Chelsea's week before the break belonged to the women: a WSL derby won over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, then a goalless draw in Lyon against a side that had scored at least seven in each of its previous four. The thing to watch is the Walsh-Potter pivot holding twice in four days, with twenty-year-old Lexi Potter freshly called up by England.",{"title":430,"url":431,"source":432,"from":228,"summary":433},"The ultra-rich face … accountability? Manchester City and Clippers verdicts show it's possible","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F01\u002Fmanchester-city-la-clippers-ultra-rich-accountability","Leander Schaerlaeckens, The Guardian","The week's story covered both halves of this page: City found guilty on more than a hundred charges over sponsorships the commission called shams, and the Clippers docked five first-round picks and $30m over Kawhi Leonard's no-show sponsorship job. Schaerlaeckens follows billionaire accountability from denial to non-apology and notes that the Clippers case was broken by a podcast, not the league.",{"title":280,"description":288},"paper\u002F2026-10-04","63° & clear on the UWS","5EItmA7vS8XTbXyh9rEiWNf_A4rBdbYu1_45nMdEvkg",1792318676864]