Glad people are reporting success with Siri AI, but I never had a single positive experience with it all summer. Three times yesterday I watched it spin endlessly, reply "I don't understand" to banal requests, or just blink and disappear. pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri

Codex is extremely frustrating in that when you send "steering" instructions reminding it to do the work in a certain way, it will almost always reply to acknowledge the request and then STOP ALL WORK.

I've tried coaxing it to keep working in AGENTS.md, but no luck.

A skill we need to learn is how to ratchet up our ambitions until we uncover what the models truly cannot do. And each time they're improved, to once again test the fences. Confidence and certainty in one's own workflow have become trademark signs of ignorance and complacency.

So I guess we're all just agreed that, "it's not against the law if an AI agent does it," then? strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover

A friend wrote to say that my "Full-breadth Developers" essay is aging frustratingly well, in his estimation.

Is it? I'm not nearly employed enough to have a good read on things. justin.searls.co/posts/full-breadth-developers/

Cool to see RubyGems in Reuters and the WSJ! We did it, everybody! wsj.com/tech/ai/cyberattack-by-rogue-ai-swarm-stokes-fears-of-out-of-control-agents-473a0352

My ARSE® process for building apps with coding agents:

[A]mbitiously create by handing an agent a HUGE task to do over hours/days
[R]age at your computer as you uncover all its stupid decisions
[S]culpt the app by fixing things in shorter, bursty sessions
[E]njoy what you built

I think the iPhone Duo might serve me well in the Post-Programming Era. Now that 90% of my work is remotely coordinating Codex and Claude from my phone, I need a desktop-class browser more than I need a full-size laptop. Carrying your computer just interrupts the agents, anyway.

Gonna go on record one last time and say that I hope Apple names its folding phone the iBook.

Maybe it's because I got to see it in IMAX, but I really liked Christopher Nolan's Castaway reboot.

Casting Zendaya as Wilson was a bold choice, though.

First Astra impressions: it's like Fable, but faster.

If you value your time, I can't see why you'd drive a coding agent with anything less than a Fable/Astra model. They produce so much less rework.

Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their hand at a tricky Core Text layout issue for Japanese vertical writing:

GPT 5.6 Sol xHigh: 1,581,445 tokens and 2189 lines changed
Fable 5 medium: 37,000 tokens and 1 line changed

Fable's solution worked, Codex just made a mess.

/goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in which it will keep working toward whatever goal you set until it gradually convinces itself that the stated goal is not what you wanted but rather some much easier objective was the real goal all along.