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Scripting News blog covers Monday May 4, 2026 updates. Dave Winer shares OG blogger insights. Content spans apps and commentary.
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Indie voices counter corporate media dominance freely. They value unfiltered pioneer takes. Decentralized info empowers.
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Historical perspectives inform inclusive tech narratives. They appreciate diverse blogger ecosystems. Evolution lessons guide policy.
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There's an important problem this list doesn't capture.
— MEGA Code (@megacode_ai) May 4, 2026
The items here are real engineering challenges, but the deeper issue is measurement.
How do you know if your agent is getting better or worse over time? How do you build eval infrastructure rigorous enough to detect… https://t.co/ERKlttVXje
Funny how well that map lines up with local topography and the locations of state parks…
— Callie Wake (@wokemobfootball) May 4, 2026
I’m all for more housing but the answer is building upwards in developed areas to house a lot of people, not putting 5 over 1’s on Mount Diablo or data centers in the south bay’s salt pools https://t.co/xLA6ysWxLs pic.twitter.com/CCW2NOaYDA
Hilarious (and maybe a little bit scary) that even in 2026 Marc Andreessen still hasn’t learned that LLMs don’t know how to reliably follow system prompts. https://t.co/wYpoHSsbbM
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) May 4, 2026
Amusing how a surprising number of people I used to professionally respect have started to outsource all their writing to AI, not even bothering to change the horribly templated (and telling) writing.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) May 4, 2026
To me it suggests they care more about "content" than quality, and poor taste https://t.co/aCl9ZpGIdJ
Even the people who are building AI in SF are not AI-literate, what crazy times we live in.
— Machine Learning Street Talk (@MLStreetTalk) May 5, 2026
> Dario unironically argued that software engineering might soon be automated (not a chance)
> Jack unironically argues below that AI might be "recursively self-improving" by the end of… https://t.co/KnqQY8Xp16