Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 44, 2026

Week 44 roundup: Claude Code skills nobody writes by hand, Steve Yegge's Counting House for enterprise AI, and why hunger beats tenure for junior engineers.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 1, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 39, 2026

Week 39 roundup: Claude Opus 5.5 gets cheaper and calmer, an agent teaches itself to out-benchmark Rust libraries, and a model built to decide instead of chat.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 27, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 38, 2026

Week 38 roundup: Anthropic's 25x CI explosion and how they fixed it, 800,000 lines of agent-written Rust at GitHub, and Cowork folding back into Claude.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 20, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 37, 2026

Week 37 roundup: why the dark software factory is a lie, OpenAI's numbers on agent-accelerated research, Anthropic's intent.md blueprint, and the cost of automating your own brain.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 13, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 36, 2026

Week 36 roundup: Pinterest on what it really takes to become an AI team, plus Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 - cheaper cache reads, protein binders, and three breaking API changes.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 6, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 35, 2026

Week 35 roundup: Claude Academy and AI fluency, Anthropic's AI-native SDLC playbook, Steve Yegge's fences instead of sandboxes, and Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 30, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 33, 2026

Week 33 roundup: agent memory you can actually trust, the vanishing middle class of software engineering, OKF token hand-offs, cheaper Claude Code sessions, and Cassandra to PostgreSQL.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 16, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 27, 2026

Week 27 roundup: is agent 'self-improvement' just string mutation, SkillOpt trains skills like weights, agentic loops explained, and Fable 5 is back.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 5, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 11, 2026

Week 11 tech roundup: Karpathy's Autoresearch lets AI agents run autonomous ML experiments, Anthropic launches the Claude Marketplace and code review, Joe Njenga explores Claude Code /loop, Andrew Ng's Context Hub tackles agent drift, Microsoft's AgentRx debugs agent failures, and Cash App's monorepo migration story.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 15, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 10, 2026

Week 10 tech roundup: Netflix battles kernel-level mount lock contention at scale, Confluent explores autonomous data systems for real-time decisioning, Steve Yegge federates a thousand Gas Towns into the Wasteland, and Anthropic's Skill-Creator plugin brings rigorous testing to agent skills.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 8, 2026

Technology musings about coding and data. Some topics: .NET, SQL Server, AI/ML, Big Data, Streaming, Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, and a lot more.