Ed Stephinson

they call them crisps there

The UK Government is paying up to £200k a year for AI Engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers. These people will be transforming the quality and efficieny of public services with AI. This is EXCATLY what we need more of

If you live somewhere where rich people exist, it means you live somewhere where it’s possible to be successful. More rich people = easier to be successful. This is good, actually.

@conductor_build i've often been frustrated at the use of the agent sdk that makes it a distinct product from claude code in the terminal, but theres an argument it makes for a more stable product we've also invested heavily in claude rules, against the zeitgeist, which could benefit

subtle theory @conductor_build is shielding us from the recent claude code hive mind issues it's either this, or i'm so cooked it doesn't matter anyway

This is correct. Extraordinary that we have this game changing moment unfolding in front of us and most elite discourse is still fake news about AI water usage or three-year-old angst about hallucinations.

@threepointone TIL

as a Good Place fan, I'm always happy when Amy Okuda's husband shows up on my feed, happy he's doing well in his retirement

What if I told you that for decades, this was largely a U.S. policy -- that Europe largerly disarmed, weakened its defense industries, and handed its security over to the United States, making itself dependent? What if I told you that for decades, this arrangement suited both sides just fine? America secured its monopoly status as the world's military hegemon and the undisputed leader of the West, gained the ability to project its power across the globe, and had a massive market for its defense industry free from European competition -- all while extending its protection over its vassals-allies in return. And Europe was perfectly happy to relax under that American umbrella and spend its money on social programs and comfortable life. And then Donald Trump, at the helm of a superpower, decided that everyone owed him. That he wants a weak, dependent Europe and a vast market for American military exports -- but has no intention of honoring the part of the old bargain that involved actually protecting that same Europe. Doesn't anyone else find it hilarious that the Trump admin first screams at the top of its lungs demanding that Europe defend itself and become independent -- and then turns around and expresses displeasure that European countries are switching to their own weapons instead of signing contracts with the American defense industry?

US think tank: The UK government has accepted an ambitious and necessary vision for British defense, promised to deliver it at what it called a “wartime pace,” and then spent the better part of two years producing nothing of substance. There are no significant program commitments, no major modernization announcements, and no serious investment decisions.  fpri.org/article/2026/0…

@UK_REPT Is this backed by sources @grok

Honest to god, this is what it feels like to be a software dev in 2026

My son asking me a lot of questions. It’s a distillation attack obviously.

hand cranked some code just to feel something today

@archieedwds nice

Starting a screen recording should take seconds, and you definitely shouldn't have to think about tidying up. I'm now hiding all Desktop files/folders when you press record. This will be a toggle in settings you can quickly access.

@tylbar @mastra dude holy shit

🚨 Announcing a new SOTA memory system, Observational Memory (OM), available in latest @mastra version now. It achieves the highest scores ever recorded on LongMemEval (gpt-4o 84.2%, gpt-5-mini 94.9%) No RAG, no graphs, no input based retrieval, just a simple constantly evolving text blob that outperforms every other memory system available. 🧵1/4

@swyxio we've switched from granola -> notion's meeting notes, I've used notion calendar since the cron days and it's _fine_, but nothing has happened with it for ~2 years now superhuman is grammerly I may give notion mail a shot

@PaulieScanlon @conductor_build It has genuinely changed what my job looks like

Today I am using @conductor_build.

@kenwheeler this is surely an opportunity

Nothing has turned my gf into a situation monitor more than live shark sighting notifications whilst we’re in Australia. She’s plugged into the great whites within a 200 mile radius