Reading Log #6

Here is what I read from 7^th to 17^th September 2026.

Blogs

• Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Reviewing All This Code

  I have been thinking about the same problem in the background for a while now, i.e. AI agents are dumping a huge amount of code and how do humans catch up?

• Invisible Companies

  Must read if you are interested in “Business”.

• Exit the Cave

  Ain’t it fun, living in the real world?

• How to protect yourself from workslop

• Can We Stop With the Uptime Percentages?

  I always translate uptime percent to be “how much time this was down for the past 30 days?” — it takes a while. The author suggests to directly give that information instead of the cryptic percentage (for general audience).

• The irrational effectiveness of the Pi harness

  Pi again!

• Every Customer Gets the Same Software. That’s Ending.

  Interesting point to think about in the current timeline.

• There are many agent harnesses, but this one is mine.

• The oldest architecture in computing

  Nice! Didn’t expect what the answer was.

• Advice to Young Developers

  Got me thinking — what advice do I have?

• The Safest Job from AI may be Writing

  I am convinced!

• Rich, fully attributed context timeout errors in Go

  Good to read a “Go” post after a long while.

• Writing About Writing

  Inspiring! It actually gave me an idea that might allow myself to write more.

• You have to beat the models at something

  Wow, this is the second post that this week that relays that “writing” is one of the things that is more human in the age of AI.

• ⭐ A Billion Dollars

  The first ever essay that I got to share with my sister!

• You need to find product-market fit again (sorry)

• A Calendar View For My Blog

• Joy & Curiosity #98

  I read this one regularly but missed adding it in some of my previous reading logs.

• Unsung at 500: behind the scenes

Books

• ⭐ ✅ Keep Going

  (read 200 pages)

  Fantastic book! Must-read for people who are interested in doing art.

• ⭐ How Will You Measure Your Life?

  (read 82 pages)

  Definitely altering who I am!

• Make It Stick

  (read 41 pages)

• Fahrenheit 451

  (read 7 pages)

• Introduction to Information Retrieval

  (read 6 pages)

• Tools of Titans

  (read 4 pages, plus a few more at random)