Hey there! In my latest blog post collection, I explored how AI is reshaping internal development, bringing insights into avoiding futile efforts in changing managers, and shared some fitness trend investigations on weighted vests. I also delved into AI-assisted tools from leading retailers, digging into debates on xG models in sports, and updates on a breakthrough obesity pill. Plus, I touched on clever engineering phrases to master AI slop. Enjoy diving in!
- One Prompt, Zero Engineers: Your New Internal Dev: Internal software development is undergoing a quiet revolution. Generative AI is transforming the equation, collapsing the gap between idea and execution. Here’s how we got here, and why the next era of internal tooling is arriving sooner than expected.
- Stop trying to change your manager: Because you don’t have the leverage to turn your manager into a different person. Here’s what to do instead.
- TBM 273: What To Do More (And Less) Of: It might sound like a leader saying, “We can work out the details later. For now it helps to keep options open. We know the big goal, and we are committed to it. The exact path can come later.” That ability to hold off until the last responsible moment—that is the powerful part.
- Chatbot Cheatsheet: A guide to the AI assistants from Walmart, L’Oréal, Amazon and more: New characters like Rufus and Sparky have quickly become the faces of the most popular retailers on the planet.
- Building AI Products In The Probabilistic Era: AI turns products from deterministic functions into probabilistic systems. That requires expanding old playbooks (SLOs, funnels, siloed finance), and reasoning in terms of trajectories, Minimum Viable Intelligence thresholds, and data as company operating system.
- “RAG is Dead, Context Engineering is King” — with Jeff Huber of Chroma: What actually matters in vector databases in 2025, why “modern search for AI” is different, and how to ship systems that don’t rot as context grows.
- How are companies driving engagement and retention?: New tactics and examples from Reddit, Replit, DuoLingo, Netflix Linear and more
- What is a color space?: In which we answer every question you’ve ever had about digital color, and some you haven’t.
- How experienced engineers get unstuck in coding interviews: In-person algorithmic interviews are not disappearing from Big Tech and many top scaleups and startups, so it’s useful to know how to succeed at them. Advice and tactics from Mike Mroczka
- A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval: In new Phase III trial data released Tuesday, people taking orforglipron lost substantially more weight than people taking a placebo.
- Are weighted vests good for bones and muscle? Fact-checking a fitness trend: It’s a growing fitness trend. People say wearing a weighted vest when you exercise builds bones, strengthens muscles and improves cardiovascular health. But does research back up these claims?
- Cronicle: A simple distributed task scheduler and runner.
- Democrats can win the redistricting war: Aggressive partisan gerrymandering is bad for democracy. But the new equilibrium is not necessarily bad for Democrats — if they play hardball.
- Why Your xG Model Might Be Wrong: The Bayesian Solution to Accurate Scoring Predictions: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Methods to Correct Player and Position Factors in Expected Goals Predictions.
- A New Expected Points Model: Learn about an adjustment we made to make our model more effective at the end of halves and games…
- 5 Tiny Phrases Every Engineer Should Use With AI: How to prevent “AI Slop”
- Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end:
- Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our state-of-the-art image model: co