Essays, posts, and papers I keep coming back to. None of them mine, all of them worth your time.
2026
More Skills, Worse Agents? Skill Shadowing Degrades Performance When Expanding Skill Libraries↗
Song Wei · arxiv.org
Sep 2026
Agents do up to 21% worse as skill libraries grow. The cause is picking the wrong skill (skill shadowing), not the extra context.
The Future is for Everyone↗
Mark Zuckerberg · meta.com
A vision for building personal superintelligence around individual empowerment, invention, and a balance of power.
How to Design an Animation↗
Sunhyoup Lee · kciter.so
Treats motion as a graph. Breaks complex animation into simple state changes built from easing curves, springs, and trig, then shows how to compose them.
Training AI to Paint with Code↗
Surya · surya.website
Aug 2026
RL (GRPO) on Qwen to write p5.brush code that renders watercolours. A nice look at designing rewards for subjective, creative tasks.
I want to do everything, so I do nothing↗
Luisa · luisaallovertheplace.substack.com
Mar 2026
On being paralyzed by too many interests, and letting yourself be a beginner at one thing at a time.