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Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe itās worth your time.
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I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this weekās best stuff š
š Mental marathoners
8 min ā¢ by Luca Rossi
This week I wrote about a question I care about more and more: is AI helping us become better at what we do, or merely faster? For individuals and teams, the goal should be to create better work, better learning, and better taste, not just more output.
š„ Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
9 min ā¢ by Johann Rehberger
A reminder that even the most powerful models are still extremely vulnerable. A website asks Claude Code to summarize some content, nudges it from WebFetch to cURL, and then turns the modelās own Python decoder into an exploit. Food for thought if your agents are touching untrusted content.
š„ Selling Out
15 min ā¢ by Sean Goedecke
Seanās title is provocative, but the thesis is very important: professionalism is a role, and playing it well doesnāt have to consume your life. Everyone chooses how much integrity to trade for wealth and career success, and thatās mostly ok, things are not black or white. A sharp essay about work and personal identity.
š„ Small Models Have Arrived
3 min ā¢ by Calvin French-Owen
We spend so much time looking at the smartest models that itās easy to miss how far the cheap, fast ones have progressed. Calvin argues that this is (even more than frontier models) what makes many new products viable, because not every task needs a genius: most business work just needs something responsive, cheap, and that keeps the ball moving.
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Luca