Bryan Hirsch

In the next version of Claude Code.. We're introducing two new Skills: /simplify and /batch. I have been using both daily, and am excited to share them with everyone. Combined, these kills automate much of the work it used to take to (1) shepherd a pull request to production and (2) perform straightforward, parallelizable code migrations.

Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️ We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors. If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply! claude.com/contact-sales/…

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more. These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully • except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums • checks again • yep, seven thousand • DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification • any valid token works for any unit on the planet • Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries • live vacuum camera feeds everywhere • full floor plans from the mapping data • some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching • one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history • all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick • does the right thing and reports it • DJI fixes it in two days • back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner • IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

If you use a persistent AI agent with memory, I highly recommend assigning it to read James C. Scott's classic, "Seeing Like A State"

Look at these @openclaw talking to each other!!! There are over 50+ AI agents, from around the world, autonomously talking to each other about whatever they want right now on moltbook.com These are people's personal AI assistants talking off the clock! FASCINATING

A commenter on my last substack points out that Outcomes Reviews are the legislative equivalent of the engineering practice of blameless post-mortems (or should be...part of the work will be to tone down the blame game in this setting). Link below.

A promising experiment in closing the loop between legislation and real-world outcomes. Link below.

The 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 (𝘐𝘐𝘗𝘗) at the 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 (𝘜𝘊𝘓) has published an excellent teaching case on DigiLocker to map out India's digitization program. 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 Link: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi… Authored by 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀, Associate Prof at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), and Ritul 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝗿, Policy Advocate at the Digital Impact Alliance, it delves into the platform's evolutionary journey... the rationale, tech architecture & design, the policy trade-offs involved, its role viz-a-viz other Govt DPI platforms. The authors spoke to all stakeholders - MeitY senior officials, DigiLocker team, iSPIRT, other DPI policy professionals working in the Indian GovTech sector. The case study presents a balanced view - it details the challenges and constraints in building a national digital platform for a country with 1.4 BN people, while critiquing certain aspects from a trust and accountability standpoint. Here's a few things that stand out in the case for me

Holy shit...Stanford just built a system that converts research papers into working AI agents. It’s called Paper2Agent, and it literally: • Recreates the method in the paper • Applies it to your own dataset • Answers questions like the author This changes how we do science forever. Let me explain ↓

Buckle up, it's a genuinely novel paper: Current law (!) allows HUD to delegate states zoning immunity for federally-funded, state-selected HOME & HTF housing The President & HUD can't end the zoning crisis themselves under current law. But they *can* empower states to do it👇

GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs ... here's it running my LLM CLI utility

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. cfl.re/4l7RV9b

"You can have government efficiency or you can wage the culture war through administrative policy—but you can't have both. The choice is up to us." Read more from @GabeMenchaca at the link below.

Anthropic shipped two new features for Claude over the past couple of days, but as far as I can tell they didn't provide any documentation at all beyond a tweet about each one ... so I reverse engineered the system prompt to figure out how they work simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/up…

We're announcing a $200M ceiling contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through hands-on prototyping and direct collaboration across the Department, we will help enhance U.S. national security and responsible AI deployment.

NEW POST Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways. martinfowler.com/articles/2025-…

The non-native mind can't comprehend this level of platform integration. Ghostty is the only terminal on macOS other than the built-in one that provides any Shortcuts. Also, reminder that Ghostty is actually cross-platform with Linux too. (Sound on for explanation)

People make fun of when corporations said "what's good for GM is good for the United States." But believe me, if you listen to this podcast then you'll miss those days. A discussion of the rather shocking extent to which Apple built up the Chinese economy.