[!NOTE] This list gets updated as the month progresses.
Reads & Watchs
Things to read this month.
- Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ (HN)
- The new normal: White House asks OpenAI to slow down on model releases https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/the-white-house-is-asking-openai-to-slow-roll-the-release-of-its-new-model-over-safety-concerns/
- [-] The Coming Loop https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/ (HN)
- LLMs Are Complicated Now https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/ (HN)
- [-] Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578
- OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/ (HN)
- [-] CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch https://cs336.stanford.edu/ (HN)
- The Laziness Impatience Hubris and it being lost https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris, https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_9aH3VuzU
- Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
- Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-introduces-siri-ai-a-profoundly-more-capable-and-personal-assistant/ (HN)
- When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement (HN)
- Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
- AI Doesn't Have ROI https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/
- Building Glass for the Web https://aave.com/design/building-glass-for-the-web — Especially interesting for the technical implementation behind cross-browser glass/refraction effects.
Tools
Tools that I've recently found, starred, or just used.
- Flue https://flueframework.com — Built on Pi, for durable agents.
- Gemma 4 12B https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/ (HN) — Tried it. Encoder-free multimodal (vision + audio), 35M param embedding module instead of ViT encoder. Fast and lean, but vision is rough around the edges and Q4 quant syntax errors are real.
- sem https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/index.html — Semantic understanding on top of Git: diff, blame, impact, log by functions/entities instead of lines. Recommended by a work colleague.
- Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review (HN)
- GLM 5.2 Is Out https://twitter.com/jietang/status/2065784751345287314, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518684
- Ponytail https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail — AI agent plugin that enforces "lazy senior dev" behavior: use platform features, stdlib, and existing deps before writing new code. The best code is the code you never wrote.
- improve https://github.com/shadcn/improve/blob/main/skills/improve/SKILL.md — Nice and recommended, even if it does not perfectly match my preferred RPI skill style.
- OpenRouter Fusion https://openrouter.ai/fusion
- ni https://npmx.dev/package/@antfu/ni — Tired of fighting with Package Managers? Just use bun. Or: ni.