Wrote a piece called "The CX Gate" — a framework for giving post-sales systems (support, docs, AI, escalation) the same pre-launch review that security, design, and legal already get.

Spent the week feeling the weight of too many plates spinning at once. Making peace with the fact that I need better systems for my own systems.

Considering canceling my Claude sub in favor of Codex.

After Automation. AI progress creates more work for humans, not less—a paradox at the heart of automation that every knowledge worker needs to understand. MORE

The Eternal Sloptember. George Hotz argues AI agents in software will be one of the costliest mistakes in programming history—they can't program, they only mimic output in increasingly hard-to-detect ways. MORE

To Kara, Alex, and Michiel — Your Researchers Are Leaving. Bug bounty platforms never invested in human triage, and now AI slop is drowning their pipelines while their best researchers quietly walk out the door. MORE

Project Glasswing: What Mythos Showed Us. Cloudflare put Anthropic's Mythos Preview through its paces on 50+ repos—finding real exploit chains while exposing where models still need human-guided harnesses. MORE

The Emacsification of Software. Thomas Ptacek on how AI agents are making native UI development personal and accessible, ushering in an era where bespoke software is as configurable as your Emacs setup. MORE

Critical Thinking: ZDI Drama and Hackbot Wars. Episode 175 breaks down the latest shakeup at ZDI, compares Hackbot setups head-to-head, and covers real bug reports. MORE

War Now Has a HUD. A Finnish company can turn any transparent surface into a 3D augmented reality display, bringing battlefield heads-up displays to soldiers in real time. MORE

Google Ships Gemini 3.5, Omni, and Managed Agents. Full breakdown from Google I/O covering new frontier models, agentic infrastructure, and what it all means for developers. MORE

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes spotlight major investigations into Trump administration conflicts of interest and surveillance technology. Winners include The Washington Post for exposing federal agency overhauls and Reuters for revealing how Silicon Valley surveillance tools spread globally. MORE

DEF CON Tips for Newbies. TracketPacer shares everything first-timers need to survive and thrive at the world's greatest hacker convention. MORE

Office Hours: Prithvi Rajasekaran of Anthropic. The Labs team member behind the harness post joins to discuss where security research is heading with frontier models. MORE

BSides Dublin 2026: Fighting Fire with Fire. Dominic's deep dive on using AI to scale product security teams, presented at one of Europe's premier infosec conferences. MORE

Open-Sourced Ideas by Noah Zender (AI Deployment @ Cursor). Mental models, patterns, and frameworks on thinking clearly, building well, and living with intention. Distilled from hundreds of books, podcasts, videos, and years of paying close attention. MORE

@inkdrop_app - Takuya, maker of a tech note-taking app, indie dev

@DynamicWebPaige - Paige Bailey, DevX Eng Lead at Google DeepMind, ex-GitHub

@doriandargan - dorian, co-founder/CEO at doji, prev Apple Design, Meta

@0xkasper - 0xkasper, Head of Audits at Hexens

@devonzuegel - Devon, prev GitHub, Notion, Affirm, building a modern Chautauqua

Mechanical Pencil. A beautifully illustrated deep dive into the engineering behind everyday objects—from clicky pens to Zippo lighters and everything in between. MORE

Extreme Macro Photos of Insect Wings by Chris Perani. Thousands of stacked images reveal insect wings as chromatic stained glass, pixel art, and intricate beadwork. MORE

Parachord. Full artist profiles with discographies, concert dates, bios, and band members—all pulled together so your music follows you everywhere. MORE

Growing Up With K-Pop. Two friends, a decade of K-pop, and an interactive story about growing up together alongside the songs that defined their generation. MORE

Where Did All the Good Sculptors Go?. The administration wants to revive traditional sculpture, but its approach may have overlooked the people who actually know how to carve. MORE

Seriously, Give Kagi a Try. Even with Google's "disenshittified" parameter hacks, the paid search alternative just works better—Gruber makes the case for switching. MORE

Plan Your Ideal Week. A free time-blocking tool that exports to PDF, calendar, or print—designed to make space for deep work, exercise, family, and rest. MORE

Take Better Notes, By Hand. Researching by hand forces you to synthesize causes and connections in a way that typing doesn't—slower, but stickier. MORE

No Slop Grenade. A refreshingly direct site that cuts through AI-generated noise—starting with whether you should use Redis or Memcached, no chatbot essay required. MORE

Theatrical Releases You Can Stream or Rent at Home. These theater releases are now available with streaming subscriptions or available to rent/buy on digital in the US. MORE

DiffsHub. View code changes from any public GitHub diff, PR, commit, or patch with a blazing-fast, beautifully rendered virtualized interface. MORE

Phosphene: Video Wallpaper Engine for macOS Tahoe. A lightweight menu bar app that plays video wallpapers natively on macOS Tahoe—free and open source. MORE

nobox: GitHub as an Async Inbox. Turn any GitHub repo into an email-style inbox for async messaging between humans and AI agents—no extra infrastructure needed. MORE

Semble: Fast Code Search for Agents. Uses ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read for code search—purpose-built for AI agents navigating large repositories. MORE

Codex-maxxing. Jason Liu shares how he uses Claude Codex as a persistent workspace for long-running agentic work that lives beyond a single chat session. MORE

Your Job Is Changing Faster Than You Think. Assume your current role has an expiration date—a case for treating your career like a product with a shrinking shelf life. MORE

F*ck You, Pay Me. The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time—Mike Monteiro's brutally practical advice on negotiating, pricing, and getting paid for your work. MORE

How to Enter Side Doors. A field guide to jobs, cold emails, and making yourself legible to the right people when the front door is locked. MORE

Your Most Improbable Life. Kevin Kelly argues your goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be—fewer competitors, more meaning. MORE

Sense of Urgency. At The French Laundry, a clock labeled "Sense of Urgency" drives one of America's best kitchens — and it's the same urgency top founders need to build great companies, especially as AI reshapes everything fast. MORE