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Quoting Daniel Stenberg

<blockquote cite="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742">The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good. I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.</blockquote> — <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742">Daniel Stenberg</a>, lead developer of cURL Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/daniel-stenberg">daniel-stenberg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/curl">curl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research">ai-security-research</a>

simonwillison.net · Jun 22

The cognitive impact of coding agents

A fun thing about <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/">recording a podcast</a> with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here's <a href="https://x.com/lennysan/status/2039845666680176703">one he shared on Twitter today</a> which ended up attracting over 1.1m views! <video src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost.mp4" poster="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost-poster.jpg" controls preload="none" playsinline style="display:block; max-width:400px; width:100%; height:auto; margin:0 auto" ><track src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost.vtt" kind="captions" srclang="en" label="English"></video> That was 48 seconds. Our <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/">full conversation</a> lasted 1 hour 40 minutes. Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics">ai-ethics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents">coding-agents</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/agentic-engineering">agentic-engineering</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/podcast-appearances">podcast-appearances</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cognitive-debt">cognitive-debt</a>

simonwillison.net · Jun 22

The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.dime) who has dedicated

elizabethspiers.com · Elizabeth Spiers · Jun 22

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

sockpuppet.org · Quarrelsome · Jun 22

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution

How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.

meaningness.com · Meaningness · Jun 22

A Local-First Task Framework

Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity.

inkandswitch.com · Alex Warth · Jun 22

My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026

vitalik.eth.limo · Jun 22

A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications

Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd academic

numergent.com · Ricardo J. Mendez · Jun 22

Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0

steve-yegge.medium.com · Steve Yegge · Jun 22

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

Interpretability research from Anthropic on emotion concepts

anthropic.com · Jun 22

Atmosphere sync: Tap, Hydrant, roll-your-own? - microcosm

A rough framework for deciding how to keep up with atproto data

updates.microcosm.blue · Jun 22

If This Then AT: Automation on Protocol

IFTTA is an automation platform built on ATProtocol at Graze Social. It started as a hack-day idea and became a working system for event processing on protocol.

ngerakines.leaflet.pub · Jun 22

Graze Social and the IETF

Graze Social sponsored my first in-person IETF meeting in Montreal last November. This post is about what it was like to be there and why standards participation matters for small companies.

ngerakines.leaflet.pub · Jun 22

10 things I want to work on after the conference

alex-bsky.leaflet.pub · Jun 22

Habermas's Bastards

The Rogue Philosophers of Right Wing Authoritarianism

unpopularfront.news · John Ganz · Jun 22

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.

dbreunig.com · Drew Breunig · Jun 22

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower.

experimental-history.com · Adam Mastroianni · Jun 22

Free Speech Experts: Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Panic Is As Old As Democracy Itself

We’ve been saying for years now that Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against social media and kids is a moral panic dressed up in academic robes, and that the evidence simply does not support the sweeping claims he’s been making. A new piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff drives that point […]

techdirt.com · Mike Masnick · Jun 22

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