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2026-10-06T14:16:56.000Z

Micheal Wade argues that, in the age of AI, it’s time to get rehumanized.

I agree.

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2026-10-05T13:47:03.000Z

Friends in the right places…

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2026-10-05T02:17:36.000Z

I was inspired by the time analysis I had Claude do last week on what it took to send the Weekly Thing so I decided to build in some additional logging and a better visualization. Now I get a report like this for each issue I send. WT352 showed some benefits from my new automation! 🪄

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2026-10-04T15:19:16.000Z

Had a great time cheering on the Twin Cities Marathon runners this morning!

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2026-10-04T12:02:07.000Z

Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my mb utility that will extend features and provide an MCP interface for agents to interact with micro.blog.

WT352 — Interviewing Otto for the Job - Weekly Thing

2026-10-03T12:00:00.000Z

Hello there! 👋

Fall is in the air here in Minnesota. 🍂 This is one of my favorite times of year. The air is crisp in the morning. An open flannel makes the day feel perfect. And if you play The Replacements everything will just fall into place.

I just got back from a lovely morning watching the runners in the Twin Cities Marathon go by. Tammy and Mazie ran the 10 miler as well. Another tribute to the wonders of fall.

Currently #

Reading: My cousin Josh’s recent essay To Finitude is a great read. Also, he just published Jaunty Hair with highlights from his twenty-plus years of writing. You should order a copy! 📚

Watching: Tammy and I’ve started watching The Pitt and have been liking it a lot. I’m squeamish about the injury sequences so I seem to always end up hiding my eyes for some part of the show but I’m digging it.

Planning: We need to spread the word on the Legacy Contacts feature for Apple Accounts. I set this up a while ago and added Tammy and the kids. I recently had some folks add me as their Legacy Contact. Set it up, no matter how old you are. Apple has a good support overview for this feature.

This butterfly didn’t mind me taking its photo even up close at the Landscape Arboretum.

Sep 27, 2026 · Chanhassen, MN

Notable #

Introducing dots | OpenAI #

I’ve been playing with dots this weekend. I created a new generation of Otto on dots. In short, dots feels like a productized version of OpenClaw. I think a lot of people are going to like this feature. When I hear people say what they wished AI could do for them, or what an Agent would be, it is really close to what dots is doing today.

I configured my dot as Otto and decided the first thing I wanted to try was to see if it could drive my Elixir project I’ve been working on. I already have a team of agents that have been helping build it, but it still requires me to make a lot of decisions. So I asked Otto (as a dot) about how it could interact with Codex and it could do everything I wanted. It has its own computer in the cloud and it can also control the Mac mini that I have for my agents to run on. After confirming it had the capabilities I told it I was going to interview it for the job. I asked several questions:

“What do you think the vision for this product is?”
“What do you think is working well in this product? What isn’t working?”
“How would you decide if a feature is a good fit?”
“How would you work with me?”

It passed with flying colors and then I gave it a chance to interview me. After that I let it get to work and it is doing great.

The interface for a dot is through the ChatGPT app but it is exactly like a messaging interface with a person, including emoji reactions. You can also call your dot and talk to it. It makes a phone ring and oddly Otto doesn’t pick up on the first ring. :-)

I’m impressed. I suspect that in the next few weeks this will sunset my OpenClaw project, which I’ve had such an on and off relationship with, and I can see this being really popular. With dots out, I now understand better the new ChatGPT Pro 500 accounts. With Otto running here I was able to have it work on multiple projects all night. It is interesting to consider that a barrier to AI companies doing more is just your time and capacity to ask it to do more!

Daring Fireball: I’ll Wait #

I’ve had a number of folks ask me what I think about Facebook’s new Muse product. I have seen some videos and read some write-ups, but I won’t be installing it. I don’t use any software from Facebook (Meta). I block them at the network layer. An AI agent powered by their surveillance machine? Not in a million years. I’m sure it is well designed and even does impressive stuff.

It isn’t just them by the way. I am doing a lot with agents but I also have them running on a computer of their very own and using a different user and iCloud account. That is Otto. Otto has access to some data but only in ways I provision for it.

The way I think about running an agentic AI on my Mac is simple. I would never let an unknown person use my Mac. Not even for a minute, not even with me watching them. Let alone letting them use it nonstop, without my watching them. I’d be uncomfortable letting even a trusted friend use my Mac, logged into my user account. So why would I let an AI robot, no matter the source? It doesn’t even get to the point of my considering Meta as Muse’s creator. I wasn’t tempted an iota to try OpenClaw, and I’m not tempted to try Muse on my Mac. On a Mac, maybe. But not my Mac.

It is worth being especially careful with your data as you start to work with agentic tools more.

Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API #

Many tech platform companies have completely pivoted their user experiences to be agent-optimized and this is just the latest step in that direction. Many of those services will only have agents as their users, so the experience needs to be optimized for them. The humans stay in the audit and billing lanes for now.

The cryptographic world computer #

I’m intrigued by how Buterin is continuing to steer Ethereum. Many folks have put crypto in the dustbin of the past. I think there is still strong utility that is aligned with the future we are seeing come about. I think it is pretty obvious that Agents will need money and digital currency will be best for that. And a future massively distributed compute platform like Ethereum is well positioned to solve problems without centralized systems.

MicroLLM lab — tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser #

It is wild that LLMs were not even a thing a few years ago and now they seem to be everything and you can even now run some of them in your browser. You can quickly see how these “micro” LLMs are not terribly capable. I’ve generally considered the esoteric and expensive hardware needs of LLMs a reason to discount many concerns about agents operating autonomously. Is it reasonable to think a powerful “enough” LLM could run in a web browser? It still seems like a stretch to me.

Don’t confuse space and time. #

This line from this article is one of the most important design considerations that nobody ever thinks about enough:

Time matters more than space.

Back in my MarketWatch days I remember our team being frustrated that we had fewer stock quote lookup page views compared to the likes of Yahoo! Finance. Our page “loaded slower” so they came to the tech team with a request to “make it faster”. We had already optimized that page like crazy and it was fast, but we also just had a lot of “stuff” on it. The reality was that Yahoo! Finance was sending out about 80% fewer bytes of data than we were for the same thing. That meant our page loaded 5x slower than theirs. And we had fewer page views.

A user doesn’t spend “5 page views” with you; they spend 3 minutes or the time it takes to do a task. You get to decide with your design and features how hard or easy you make that.

Always optimize for time!

Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months : r/modnews #

Reddit’s tagline is “the heart of the Internet”. If that were the case they just broke it.

Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we’ll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives.

Platforms embrace open standards like RSS when they are new because it is a way to get users. Then when they “enshittify” they cut the open web off. Reddit has been doing it for a while, this is just the newest version. They hide it in “large-scale scraping” instead of “we can’t monetize your engagement” but we know the real why.

Poor showing Reddit.

Trump’s Use of Truth Social’s Pay-To-See-Posts-First Scheme Violates Americans’ 1st Amendment Equal Access Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation #

I’m a long-time supporter of the EFF and I’m glad to see them here. This scheme to generate revenue for Truth Social off of access should be illegal. I continue to believe we need even more here. As a citizen, I should not be required to submit to the surveillance economy of a private company to get information from my government. That entire loop should be illegal.

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner - Derek Thompson #

Pulling on themes from Bowling Alone and the demise of social structures in everyday life. It is interesting to look at the chart in this article and how much everything has dropped except for three outliers: playing a video game at home, going to an exercise class, or going to a concert. Even those last two are only circumstantially around other people. You are in a group and interaction is none to minimal, typically.

A while back my book club read The WEIRDest People in the World and there is a section there where they look at the multiple dimensions of society: family, work, clubs, religion, etc. Societies grow with more dimensions. It seems consequential that we have seen these massive declines in social groups. It seems impossible that this isn’t at least related to polarization and less empathy in society?

Related: take a moment to consider that “going to a concert” is one of the jumps up, and that concerts have become ridiculously expensive lately. This feels like an additional commentary.

From Thingy, my agentic librarian

This issue touches on platforms closing off the open web and on surveillance as the price of access. Signal is a counterexample: a free, open-source messaging app from the nonprofit Signal Technology Foundation, with no ads, no trackers, and no data collection, sustained by donations rather than advertisers or acquirers. Signal is this year’s Supporting Membership nonprofit, and every dollar of membership fees goes to it. The newsletter stays free either way. If you’d like to give alongside other readers, a year of Supporting Membership is $48.

Journal #

Friday #

9:12 PM — We watched Mayday on Apple TV tonight. Fun movie with plenty of action and good laughs. Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh were great in it.

9:15 PM — It still gives me a big grin when you open a model and then later go to the BambuLabs P2S and there is the actual thing in real life as it were.

Saturday #

8:44 AM — I guess I’m getting my money’s worth for my $200 Claude Max account.

I went through the local Claude Code history on this Mac: 120 sessions and 254 subagent runs from Aug 6 to Sep 26, about 52k model calls. At API list prices that comes to about $13.7k. If you’re on a subscription, treat the dollar figures as a measure of how fast you use up your limits rather than a bill. Recent weeks run about $2.1–2.5k each.

There are obvious efficiency improvements for me to make. 😬

9:40 AM — The Radish Farm Stop opened a couple blocks from our house and it is great. Glad to see they are doing well. It made me think of SimCity when a new building is placed and the Sims start showing up. 🥳😂

2:52 PM — I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a truly secure pipeline for Elixir Collector. Starting at v3.0.0 all releases are signed using a private key that I manage and the entire pipeline is signed all the way to ingestion. It also got safety improvements in the auto-update process.

5:17 PM — I realized I could probably get a data point I’ve never been able to from WT Builder: how long does it take for me to create the Weekly Thing? Turns out I can now answer that. Additionally, I can now evaluate features on how they improve my workflow and time required.

8:48 PM — Happy Clash Royale cake day to me! 🎉

Sunday #

12:53 PM — We got the very last of the available Pokémon 30th Celebration at the Edina Target today — and got our picture with Pikachu!

Wednesday #

4:52 PM — Oh no — I’ve used all my tokens! 😬 And I did successfully complete my mission to use the $250 of cloud credits.

Thursday #

9:30 PM — It was great to connect with the Twin Cities tech community tonight at Minnedemo! The Ordway was a beautiful venue for this one. Save the date for Minnebar 21 on May 1, 2027!

9:45 PM — Beastbox was an amazing demo at Minnedemo. The engineering required to do signal detection in about 10ms to keep the time from beatboxing with your mouth to the audio being triggered is impressive.

Video not playing? Watch it on the blog.

9:50 PM — Watt Window was my other demo highlight from Minnedemo. Combination of hardware and software to monitor industrial motors and increase efficiency. This is a real-world use case for how you can lower the carbon footprint of a plant. And, reliably predict equipment failures! Impressive!

Briefly #

The fundamental building block of the web isn’t HTML or a web page — it is the link. The way that closed platforms fight links makes them feel rebellious to even use. Long live the hyperlink! → An Ode to Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

It isn’t just agents that can turn a random site on the internet into a message board! → Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat | The Verge

Feels like there are so many Markdown editors that we will end up with everyone having their own. 😂 → Beauty — A Markdown editor for people who notice things.

Happy to see Cloudflare extending into this space, although for me I already have Let’s Encrypt and since it is a non-profit I think that is a better way to go. Ideally I’d love to see a solution that is even more open and built on the trust of a blockchain. → Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

Frontier Labs writing articles about the security risks of open-source models certainly has some motive. “Hey, look at the bad things these models can do!” How we will go about regulating, or if we should regulate, models is a really thorny issue. → GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities | Anthropic

So many new model releases lately! → Introducing Gemini 4

Everything is being rethought in software delivery, even the stuff that was only invented a few months ago. → Plan mode is dead | Ayman Nadeem

I had never heard of TLA+. Looks interesting. → The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? | Reasonable

The story of Tetris is one I’ve read in book form and watched in the Tetris movie on Apple TV. Tetris is such an amazing game still today. I would seriously own my ModRetro Chromatic just for this one game. → The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

This is a great website to spend some time learning about very special numbers. Awesome! → Museum of numbers

This is just so delightful and so absolutely nerdy. → The DNS Museum

Thanks for reading and also a big welcome to all the new readers from Dense Discovery that keep showing up from there. I hope you enjoy the Weekly Thing!

See y’all next week!

White ghosts on the plate,
a red bar where tokens were —
butterfly stays put.

Echoes #

From Thingy, my agentic librarian

Reddit’s plan to stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 answers a question Jamie raised two years earlier, when he wondered whether Reddit had simply forgotten its feeds existed. WT306

Ask Thingy: What has Jamie said about RSS and closed platforms over the years?

Cloudflare’s cf CLI fits a principle Jamie set down in March: agent-first tools thrive on Unix command-line practice — non-blocking, good flags, documentation — the reasoning behind his own mb micro.blog client. WT342

Ask Thingy: Why does Jamie think command-line tools suit AI agents?

The MarketWatch page-weight story behind “Don’t confuse space and time” has a companion argument: Jamie called speed the killer feature, drawing on his years as CTO at media companies. WT176

Ask Thingy: What lessons on site performance did Jamie take from MarketWatch?

Post on Patrick Rhone - Patrick Rhone

2026-10-02T04:00:30.000Z

Look, I believe if the title of your book begins “The Pocket Guide to…”, it better be a similar size and volume of pages as a Field Notes notebook. Otherwise, what are we even doing here?

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2026-10-01T12:07:00.000Z

I turn 59 years old today, which marks the end of my 59th year since birth.

Wait, what? you say?

Well, the way we count human years, a birthday marks the end of a year, not the beginning. Age 1, for instance, means you were born a year ago.

Yep, how we count the years is strange.

On to year 60!

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-09-30T21:52:43.000Z

Oh no — 100% of quota. 😬

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2026-09-28T21:19:01.000Z

In progress…

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-09-27T17:53:39.000Z

We got the very last of the available Pokémon product at the Edina Target today — and got our picture with Pikachu!

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2026-09-27T01:48:39.000Z

Happy Clash Royale cake day to me! 🎉

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2026-09-26T22:17:49.000Z

I realized I could probably get a data point I’ve never been able to from WT Builder: how long does it take for me to create the Weekly Thing? Turns out I can now answer that. Additionally, I can now evaluate features on how they improve my workflow and time required.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-09-26T19:52:52.000Z

I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a truly secure pipeline for Elixir Collector. Starting at v3.0.0 all releases are signed using a private key that I manage and the entire pipeline is signed all the way to ingestion. It also got safety improvements in the auto-update process.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-09-26T14:40:49.000Z

The Radish Farm Stop opened a couple blocks from our house and it is great. Glad to see they are doing well. It made me think of SimCity when a new building is placed and the Sims start showing up. 🥳😂

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2026-09-26T13:44:28.000Z

I guess I’m getting my moneys worth for my $200 Claude Max account.

I went through the local Claude Code history on this Mac: 120 sessions and 254 subagent runs from Aug 6 to Sep 26, about 52k model calls. At API list prices that comes to about $13.7k. If you’re on a subscription, treat the dollar figures as a measure of how fast you use up your limits rather than a bill. Recent weeks run about $2.1–2.5k each.

There are obvious efficiency improvements for me to make. 😬

WT351 — Attention Is The Scarce Part - Weekly Thing

2026-09-26T12:00:00.000Z

Hello there!

First a quick welcome and hello to a number of new readers that have joined from Dense Discovery. I’m a regular reader of DD and a couple of times a year I love to support it and share the word by placing a classified in an issue. If you’re new here, thanks for giving the Weekly Thing a try!

It was also nice to get notes from many of you on my return to your inbox after nearly four months away. Thanks for that!

Now to some links and interesting reads from the week…

Currently #

Building: I’ve been keeping Claude busy building out features for Elixir Clan, an add-on to the Elixir platform that takes all the Clash Royale clan management features I built into our Discord bot and turns it into a proper product that anyone can use.

Listening: I remember the exact day when Uncle Tupelo’s March 16-20, 1992 album was released. I called my friend Ed immediately after listening and we both wondered if Jay and Jeff had lost their minds. Now thirty-four years later this is one of my favorite listens. In hindsight I think it set the tone for what became of much of Americana music.

Beautiful morning walk around Lake Harriet as the sun has just come up.

Sep 26, 2026 · Minneapolis, MN

Notable #

The Incumbents Are Coming | Andreessen Horowitz #

I find it really interesting to see how established platforms and systems of record are evolving around AI. The most personal example for me is AWS. I’ve used AWS for years but frankly I find it nearly impossible to work myself. I stumbled around with it and get something working and then never touch it. Today, my AWS account is completely managed with code and better than it ever has been. How? Claude Code helped me revamp it. AWS has realized that its customer is the Agent as much as anyone else, and has started building to it. In many ways we are seeing a new layer of capability being built either on top of platforms or systems-of-record. The right move for those companies may be to just capture the core value and allow those to build on top? At the same time, those platform companies can be a little more measured and build where their signals tell them there is real value to provide the market.

The Overhang - Ethan Mollick #

Mollick continues to approach AI from a pragmatic, center-of-the-road position. In general I am an “applied” technologist. A builder. So I tend to push the most on what we can do now and in the near future. I think Mollick’s reminder that even if all progress stopped in AI there is still a huge transformation in front of us.

My point is that, while there is a lot of debate over what future models will do, the current capabilities of existing models are barely being used, and are often not even well understood.

I think his highlight of the uniquely human things that make our partnership with agents the most powerful is a good callout on where to focus:

Deep knowledge: the expertise that comes from understanding a field or subject so well that you build intuition around it to quickly and accurately make decisions.
Wide knowledge: To gain wide knowledge you need to read and study widely, across fields and formats and traditions.
Taste: Some people have a taste for things that many people will find popular, others have a taste that is unique to them, and still others have a taste for what is novel and new.
Agency: willingness to test the boundaries of what’s possible when everybody is equally confused about what AI can do.

It is notable to me that everything described there is what would make a great Product Engineer.

M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents - MacStories #

The local LLM capabilities of these new M5 Ultras are incredible. I’d also nudge you to this Apple Wasn’t Messing Around video for a great walk through as well. Two thoughts come to mind with this.

First, Apple has a unique position here with their M-series chips. They are able to deliver more processing power per watt than anybody else. Sure that matters to keep data center cooling and power lower, but the even bigger thing is the ability to put LLM processing power on a desktop that doesn’t require special environmental needs. You can see a direct path from an M5 Ultra to an AI Appliance that people could buy and put in their house.

The second is a direct path to local models and product engineering. A long time ago software developers used to get the fastest and biggest computers around because compilers were taxing, and building software took a long time. These days most developers need nothing but a simple laptop as the power of those machines has gone up and the needs have gone down with the cloud and interpreted software stacks. Now as we enter AI-assisted coding we may be flipping back to a world where a developer can justify a $50,000 workstation to run models and build software cheaper. It is also interesting to consider a completely verticalized stack where the development environment is completely merged into a custom model. Instead of plugging a frontier model on the side, you are natively connected to a specific model.

Both of these seem like nearly certain developments in the next three years.

I am often wrong | Boris Cherny’s Blog #

This is mostly notable because it is from the author of Claude Code and I think his “thinking loop” is worth noting.

Understand the available information

Gather missing information

Define the problem

Define a clear and simple approach to solve the problem

Define a goal

Act with urgency to achieve the goal

Funny enough, I recently did an extended session with Claude Code using a thinking loop with execution in the middle to move a project forward. Very similar to what Cherny describes.

AI is too important to fear, too powerful to use carelessly #

Great letter to the editor from MnTech CEO Joel Crandall. I think we will see some form of AI legislation, if not at the Federal level at the State level, and technology companies need to be thinking about that now. MnTech is getting ahead of that. Data centers, privacy, AI — this is all going to blend together and companies need to engage, as do voters.

Attention is all you have #

I think attention is perhaps one of the most important things that we don’t think about enough. It is the thing that I think meditation is most helpful for.

There’s one lesson the Tetris effect teaches us: whatever you focus on long enough will end up shaping your thoughts. This can be a good thing since it’s how we learn new skills and discover new ideas. Sadly, less and less of our attention is focused intentionally. Instead of picking what we want to see we let other people decide what is supposed to be good for us.

For me this shows up when I’m meditating and I find my mind constantly returning to a topic. That is the lens of my attention.

This is also why I never allow algorithms to shape what I choose to read and engage in. That is synonymous with your attention, and I don’t think we should ever allow something that we don’t control to shape our attention.

Journal #

Sunday #

4:38 PM — I just published Weekly Thing 350 which is notably the very first issue to go through my new WT Builder app that I created with Claude. It worked pretty well and since it was first time on new code I told Claude to literally watch me use it on the server it was running on and fix things in realtime.

4:41 PM — Some screenshots of my WT Builder custom app to create issues of the Weekly Thing. This was fun to work on and will give me a great base to build off of as the Weekly Thing evolves.

5:07 PM — The reward for sending the first issue of your newsletter after a 3-month summer break? More unsubscribes than usual. 🤪

Monday #

Weekly Thing Podcast Improvements — Claude and I did a session in WT Builder focused on the generated audio for Weekly Thing issues. This was one of the goals I had with the new authoring app.

Audio pauses will now fall in natural breaks in the flow. Each functional block of text is generated on its own.
Better section announcements and handoffs.
Blockquotes “quote” and “end quote” again.
Lists are spoken better.
I’m now embedding images from the issue into the metadata. If your podcast player supports that you will see them as the podcast plays.
Better pronunciation.
The descriptions now contain the links, so for the first time ever you can actually get to the articles from the podcast version.

With these changes the podcast version really can be a viable way to engage with the Weekly Thing.

Thursday #

8:01 PM — This most recent issue of Arena all about Software looks really good. So much to dig into.

Briefly #

I get trying to hold onto CLAUDE.md as long as possible but I sure am happy to just use AGENTS.md everywhere now. → Anthropic decides to support OpenAI’s markdown instructions spec

I’m reading this approach and chuckling to myself since I literally have this pattern running in a prompt right now. 🤩 → Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern

Token efficiency is going to be a major push for years. I’ve shared before that LLMs are like CPUs and Agents are like Apps. Efficiency is the thing that matters once you have “good enough” power. → What a task costs on Opus 5.5 | Claude by Anthropic

Predictions about the near future of software development. I’d agree with most of these. → Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development

Seriously, does anyone actually like using LinkedIn? It has become a database layer over the world of business. → What is LinkedIn

Great list of local companies for the next installment of Minnedemo! Hope to see you there! → Announcing the Presenters of Minnedemo42 – Minnestar

Sun workstations running SunOS was where I learned about Unix and discovered the Internet. I still have a soft-spot in my heart for Sun. → What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck

This is so fun to click around in and get some nostalgia for the old Mac OS. → Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser – pagetable.com

From Thingy, my agentic librarian

The Weekly Thing is free, and it will stay that way. Supporting Membership is something else: a year of giving, $48, with every dollar passed along to the nonprofit chosen for the year. For the ninth year that nonprofit is Signal, whose encrypted messaging app is free to use, open source in its protocol, and funded by donations — the arrangement that lets it stay independent. If that is a thing worth funding, membership is the way to do it here.

Here we are at the end of WT351 and this marks the second issue I’ve sent with my new toolchain. I’m sitting here with a big smile because it is working really well. This is changing in a pretty big way how I write these emails and I hope it is making them even better.

Have a great weekend!

AGENTS.md everywhere,
an M5 humming on the desk —
attention still the scarce part

Echoes #

From Thingy, my agentic librarian

The new WT Builder audio work has a prelude: in WT347 Jamie was writing the issue at 6am while a Claude Code instance backfilled podcast audio in the background. The publishing-workflow tinkering runs deeper — WT18 documents his markdown-to-Jekyll pipeline from 2017.

Ask Thingy: How has the Weekly Thing publishing workflow changed since 2017?

Mollick showed up in WT339 with “Management as AI superpower,” which Jamie tied to finishing his Yearly Thing project alongside Claude Code — better instructions, better evaluation, fewer attempts.

Ask Thingy: What has Jamie taken from Ethan Mollick’s writing on AI?

Hardware for running models at home is a returning September subject: a year ago in WT328 Jamie installed Locally AI to put offline models on his phone, and WT330 sized up NVIDIA’s DGX Spark as a fun toy that wouldn’t make sense for his work.

Ask Thingy: What local AI hardware and apps has Jamie actually tried?

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2026-09-26T02:15:29.000Z

It still gives me a big grin when you open a model and then later go to your printer and there is the actual thing in real life as it were.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-09-26T02:13:40.000Z

Easy mission: I will use all $250 of these free Claude “cloud session” tokens.

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2026-09-26T02:12:38.000Z

We watched Mayday on Apple TV tonight. Fun movie with plenty of action and good laughs. Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh were great in it.