Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
The Math on the Page – by Angel Medina – Between Courses
I built República the same way I built the coffee shops. And I built the coffee shops the same way I built this idea — long before it had a name. I built all of it as proof. Proof that I could build something real. Proof that I understood how this works.
High earners race ahead on AI as workplace divide widens
The highest-earning and most experienced workers are adopting AI in their jobs far faster than others, in a divide that risks widening inequality as the technology spreads through the workplace.
Our newsroom AI policy – Ars Technica
Our approach comes from two convictions: that AI cannot replace human insight, creativity, and ingenuity, and that these tools, used well, can help professionals do better work. From those starting points, it was always clear what we wouldn’t allow. AI would not become the author, the illustrator, or the videographer. These tools are best used by professionals in the service of their profession, not as a clever end run around it, and certainly not as a path to eventually replacing it.
Fragments: April 2
As we see LLMs churn out scads of code, folks have increasingly turned to Cognitive Debt as a metaphor for capturing how a team can lose understanding of what a system does. Margaret-Anne Storey thinks a good way of thinking about these problems is to consider three layers of system health…
What we lose when artificial intelligence does our shopping
As scholars studying the intersection of law and technology, we have watched AI-assisted commerce expand rapidly. Our research finds that without updated legal measures, this shift toward automated commerce could quietly erode the economic, psychological and social benefits that people receive from shopping on their own terms.
The Writer-Researcher’s Guide to Claude Code
Over the past few months, I have been using Claude Code to explore these questions for myself. The result is a full-stack knowledge management system spanning multiple software products, internal systems, and a local model.
Raising a Series A in 2026. I have now gone through a proper… | by Daniel Aisen | Proof Reading | Mar, 2026 | Medium
I had fairly optimistic expectations from the onset, and both times we pretty much hit our targets on the nose, but both experiences were intense, challenging, and a rollercoaster of emotions.
A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all. | Augment Code
We pulled dozens of AGENTS.md files from across our monorepo and measured their effect on code generation. The best ones gave our coding agent a quality jump equivalent to upgrading from Haiku to Opus. The worst ones made the output worse than having no AGENTS.md at all.
When LLMs Get Personal – by Joshua Budman
The more interesting question is whether the space of materially distinct answers is much smaller – and whether answers to the same question, across different users, tend to share a stable common core with variation concentrated more at the margins.
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That number has been notching up in recent years. As of October 2024, around a quarter of the company’s code was AI-generated, Google said at the time. Last fall, it said the number had risen to 50%.
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
Claude Code’s Head of Product on how AI is changing the PM role, building products before the model is ready, inside Claude Code’s launch room process, and why speed matters more than strategy now
World’s first 50 MW superhot geothermal plant eyes 2030 launch
Quaise Energy said it is moving ahead with plans to build what it describes as the world’s first power plant using superhot geothermal energy, with an initial 50-megawatt facility planned in Oregon.
UO’s Knight Campus fosters startup incubation, biomaterial printing
The newest addition to the University of Oregon will see labs refine bioengineered 3D printed biomedical tissue, serve as an incubator for startups and support the next generation of researchers.
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