7 May 2026

11 links ยท Thursday

agents need control flow, not more prompts

Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve...

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?

Dwarkesh Patel1 recently posted an award for the best answers to four key questions about AI. It’s partly a challenge and partly a job interview, since some of the winners will get offered a role as a “research collaborator”. I don’t want the job, but I do wan…

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't y…