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  1. October '26 Stars

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    This month brought a shorter list, though I feel like I might've forgotten to star something... but here it is.

    1. Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile by Gabriel Turpin (via Simon Willison)
    2. How abliterated models can get you pwned by Prince Chaddha (via Bruce Schneier)
    3. Engenharia Reversa com IA: a Adobe morreu? by Fabio Akita
    4. Claude, don’t touch my lump by Adam Mastroianni
    5. Auto-publiquei meu próprio Livro/e-book: Competente o Suficiente by Fabio Akita
    6. Existem Linguagens Melhores pra programar com LLMs? by Fabio Akita
    7. We are going to kill “unalive” by Anil Dash
    8. The Code Nobody Reads by Addy Osmani
    9. Bliki: Sensible Default by Martin Fowler
    10. I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior by Bruce Schneier

  2. September '26 Stars

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    It's been a while since I shared my reading list on the blog, but here goes my starred articles from September.

    1. Note on 24th September 2026 by Simon Willison
    2. What About Rails? by Jared Norman
    3. Tyrannosaurus by Randall Munroe
    4. Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale. by Gary Marcus
    5. How To Write With An LLM by Thomas Ptacek (via Simon Willison)
    6. I don't like LLMs by Martin Fowler
    7. Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei by Gary Marcus
    8. Out-Of-Distribution Checks – How Human Intelligence Stabilises Agentic Workflows by codemanship
    9. A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? by Paul Ford (via Simon Willison)
    10. Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months? by Gary Marcus
    11. P(doom) by Armin Ronacher
    12. Feeling sad about AI by Andy Balaam (via Simon Willison)
    13. No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030 by Gary Marcus
    14. Você é um idiota se acredita nas propagandas enganosas da OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA. Entenda by Fabio Akita
    15. What We Can Learn from Claude's Fable 5.1 System Prompt by Drew Breunig
    16. The Ultimate Equation about AI Coding by codemanship
    17. I'm done using AI by brettcodes
    18. Agentic Horizons – When The Wheels Start To Wobble… by codemanship

    Most is about AI since that's most of what I read these days, maybe I should expand my feed...

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  3. January '26 Stars

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    January always felt like a long month, but as I grow older and time becomes shorter it almost feels like January keeps growing. Or at least it's length is more noticeable. It might also just be because it was a particularly wet January... Who really knows?...

    Whatever how it felt it was a month of much reading, from the 65 feeds that I follow I read 221 articles and starred 26 of those. You can find those favourites below.

    1. We are all doing AI wrong by nutanc
    2. Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now by Simon Willison
    3. Singing the gospel of collective efficacy by Matt @ Interconnected
    4. Productivity Theatre @ codemanship
    5. The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory by Simon Willison
    6. The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding by Addy Osmani
    7. Claude's new constitution by Simon Willison
    8. Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by Simon Willison
    9. Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? by Armin Ronacher
    10. Bridges by Kent Beck, I talked about this article on a blogpost in this blog.
    11. I Have Thus I Deserve from Dark Thoughts
    12. AI Agents: Garantindo a Proteção do seu Sistema by Akita on the importance of security when using AI coding agents (PT text!)
    13. A Software Library with No Code by Drew Breunig
    14. LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends by Simon Willison
    15. When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? by Gergely Orosz. We covered this on one of our AI Open Hours @ Mindera as it's a really hot topic and with a lot of uncertainty of what's to come.
    16. The big regression by Jason Fried on how design has
    17. Welcome to Gas Town by Steve Yegge, introducing an interesting take on multi-agent coding via an AI Orchestrator. Pretty wild.
    18. The Future of Coding Agents by Steve Yegge
    19. Introducing gisthost.github.io by Simon Willison
       
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  4. November '25 Stars 📚

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    In November I read 172 articles from 48 feeds and I starred 15 articles, here they are:

    1. Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data by Simon Willinson
    2. Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult by Simon Willinson
    3. Hot take on Google’s Gemini 3 by Gary Marcus
    4. BREAKING: The AI 2027 doomsday scenario has officially been postponed by Gary Marcus
    5. Quoting Ethan Mollick by Simon Willinson
    6. Cause or Correlation? by Jason Gorman
    7. Glimpses of the Future: Speed & Swarms by Drew Breunig
    8. Maybe I don't need to know about everything by Tom Burkert
    9. Quoting Josh Cohenzadeh by Simon Willinson
    10. “Productivity”. You Keep Using That Word. by Jason Gorman
    11. The Learning Loop and LLMs by Martin Fowler
    12. Don't let Claude Code delete your session logs by Simon Willinson
    13. New prompt injection papers: Agents Rule of Two and The Attacker Moves Second
    14. Too big to fail? by Gary Marcus
    15. The AI-Ready Software Developer #16 – A Token of Our eXtreme by Jason Gorman

    Clearly out of my 48 feeds I have some favourites or there are people that write things that resonate more with me.

    I will try to start taking notes about what leads me to star articles so that I can bring more value to these posts. But if you do enjoy any of the articles make sure to follow their blogs. As much as it might seem... I haven't starred all of the articles that they published! 😅
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  5. October '25 Stars 📚

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    In October I read ~301 articles from the 44 blogs that I follow on my feed reader. These are the ones that really caught my interested and which I starred:

    1. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web by Anil Dash
    2. Sabbaticals keep our attrition at bay by DHH
    3. Quoting Geoffrey Litt by Simon Willison
    4. Agentic AI and Security
    5. Could China devastate the US without firing a shot? by Gary Marcus
    6. Wax On, Wax Off by Jason Gorman
    7. Avoid the nightmare bicycle by Geoffrey Litt
    8. Dane Stuckey (OpenAI CISO) on prompt injection risks for ChatGPT Atlas by Simon Willison
    9. Is vibe coding dying? by Gary Marcus
    10. AI Will Destroy Everything by Will Locket
    11. Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there. by Gary Marcus
    12. Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away by Simon Willison
    13. Is AGI the right goal for AI? by Gary Marcus
    14. Is Your Development Team “AI-Ready”? by Jason Gorman
    15. Coding without typing the code by Simon Willison
    16. Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering by Simon Willison
    17. Why You (Probably) Won’t Get Rich Building With LLMs by Jason Gorman
    18. The Passionate Programmer: Too Passionate, Perhaps? by Jason Gorman
    19. Quoting Gergely Orosz by Simon Willison
    20. “You have 18 months” by Derek Thompson
    21. Vibe engineering by Simon Willison
    22. The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead. by Gwen Davis
    23. Quoting Nadia Eghbal by Simon Willison
    24. Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code by Jason Gorman
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