Links for February 2026

Tools

• Anthropic releases “knowledge work” plugins the market explodes? I am skeptical on these being anything more than nice-to-haves for lean startups. Some testing has amusing results

Reading, Writing & Ideas

• Karpathy on the return of RSS feeds. I may write about this further, I think the current state of the internet is so bad the only option is to return to web 1.0 in whatever ways we can. Part of the reason I created my site!
• The king ordered it! I just finished Mad Men and concidentally finished reading How the Scots Invented the Modern World, great show, great book.
• Funny read on ‘optimizer’ culture. The optimizers seem to be dominating online discourse, the satisficers are busy enjoying life.

AI Stuff

• Great essay on pitfalls of using agentic coding tools for non-technical users. Software shaped problems and the need to develop parkour vision is a great analogy.
• A social network for agents? I am suddenly a lot less bullish on agents interacting in a meaningful way with the world after reading through dozens of posts on here.
• Economist article on being proactive about AI in the workspace. A little alarmist but I agree that with the “jagged frontier” the best thing you can do right now is be curious and find out for yourself what works.
• Ben Tossell’s amazing writeup on how to build with agents.