Niels Berglund

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 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 32, 2026

Week 32 roundup: MCP vs Agent Skills settled, Steve Yegge's Continuous Thunderdome, a polyglot unit-test agent, auto mode as Claude Code's default, and imposter syndrome in the AI era.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 9, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 31, 2026

Week 31 roundup: MCP's biggest-ever spec update goes stateless, Anthropic cuts 80% of Claude Code's system prompt, agent traffic routing on AKS, and persistent memory on MongoDB Atlas.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 2, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 29, 2026

Week 29 roundup: Netflix's service topology at scale, 8 Claude Code updates you missed, Grok Build's 27,800x data leak, and Anthropic's million-line AI code migrations.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 19, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 28, 2026

Week 28 roundup: Google's quiet OKF spec, finding your unknowns with Claude Fable 5, Lilian Weng on harness engineering, and Anthropic's J-lens inside Claude's mind.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 12, 2026

I Built a Mac App in a Language I Don't Know, for an OS I Barely Understand

I've missed the Windows app Everything since switching to Mac. So I asked Claude Fable 5 to build it for me: Needle — instant file search for macOS, written in Swift, a language I don't know.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, July 11, 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 26, 2026

Week 26 tech roundup: the GLM 5.2 open-weights underdog, the full Claude Desktop on AWS, Google Cloud and Foundry, and why Claude Code is the OpenClaw alternative you already have.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 28, 2026

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