1 June 2026

13 links ยท Monday

The web is changing, and we are not going back

Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers

The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen

Yesterday, a slew of Instagram accounts, including some high profile ones like the Obama White House account, seemingly got hacked. I've seen my share of exploits and takeover techniques, but this is the most unserious, "almost too stupid to be true" of them a…

Weird projects I shipped with AI

Where are all the AI-generated projects? This is a common question from AI skeptics: if LLMs are so good at writing code, where is the tsunami of new AI-generated apps, services and games?