Will you heed my warnings NOW

Will you heed my warnings NOW Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name “Aaronson.” But then continue scrolling to see 144 other inductees, including my IAS postdoctoral classmate Maria Chudnovsky, my longtime

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718 · April 29, 2026

Agentic Coding Ascension Notes

Agentic Coding Ascension Notes I’ve found agentic coding (with Anthropic’s Claude) to be something between an x10 and x100 multiplier on what I personally can do in a software engineering vein. This seems to be significantly more than what other folks are observing, so I wanted to share some notes on how I got

https://hunch.net/?p=13763837 · April 27, 2026

Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause

Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/now-deceased-agi-clause/#atom-entries · April 27, 2026

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler smaller cheaper

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler smaller cheaper For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/ · April 24, 2026

DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier a fraction of the price

DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier a fraction of the price

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/#atom-entries · April 24, 2026

Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web

Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/liteparse-for-the-web/#atom-entries · April 23, 2026

A pelican for GPT-55 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API

A pelican for GPT-55 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/gpt-5-5/#atom-entries · April 23, 2026

Debugging WASM in Chrome DevTools

Debugging WASM in Chrome DevTools

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/debugging-wasm-in-chrome-devtools/ · April 22, 2026

Is Claude Code going to cost 100month Probably not - its all very confusing

Is Claude Code going to cost 100month Probably not - its all very confusing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/claude-code-confusion/#atom-entries · April 22, 2026

Wheres the raccoon with the ham radio ChatGPT Images 20

Wheres the raccoon with the ham radio ChatGPT Images 20

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/21/gpt-image-2/#atom-entries · April 21, 2026