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"Tongue Tied and Twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I."
Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
This article also introduced me to the Ramp AI index, which uses billing data from 70,000 Ramp credit card using companies to estimate model adoption.
The world is filled with people that don't want to read or think about things, don't be one of them. Try this instead Use the AI. Really, go for it.
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon, who blogged every day for an entire year, sets a high bar for what’s possible here. Over to Simon… Why did you start blogging – and why do you continue?
But at my best I’m moving from song to song. But that leads to Dunlop’s next question for Willison: Your advice for people just getting started with blogging? Just start.
gowtham0992/link: Local personal memory for LLM agents
Local memory for AI agents. Link gives Codex, Claude, Cursor, Kiro, VS Code, Copilot, Antigravity, and other local agents the same source-backed memory, stored locally as Markdown.
monthly-newsletter-archive/2026-06-june.md at main · simonw/monthly-newsletter-archive
After that period elapses, the models become sub-frontier, competition emerges, and margins compress. Every week of delay is eating into the narrow window that labs have to make their accounting work.
Linus Torvalds: ‘AI Is a Tool, Just Like Other Tools We Use. And It’s Clearly a Useful One.’
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one. It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.
Google’s Gemini Mac App Is Native, in a Distinctly Google Way, But Annoyingly Presumptuous
But it doesn’t, and Google shows no signs of caring, so I just deleted it and uninstalled its background launch agents (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/).
How we contain Claude across products
Over the past two years, we’ve shipped three primary agentic products: claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Each serves a different audience, requiring a different containment architecture.
Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code
This guide is for the second kind of person, assuming you already know what claude does when you type it in a terminal. 1.