Stuck in the Filter - W42
2025-10-17
These links for various reasons didn't make it into my public content. They come in many different formats and cover a range of topics that I found interesting or useful. Whether they were too niche, incomplete, or simply didn't fit the overall flow, these links are still valuable resources for some reason they caught my attention.
Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers
I used to write more
The Grand AGI Delusion
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-grand-agi-delusion
and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
Inside Google’s AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search)
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/fc235f0b-992e-483c-a391-4ef905208357
Robby Stein on Google’s AI comeback: Gemini hits #1 beating ChatGPT, why AI is expanding the pie for search, and his frameworks behind two billion-user products
On the Psychology of AI People
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/on-the-psychology-of-ai-people
To them, we face the existence of ‘mysterious creatures’ not an AI bubble
FOD#122: What Are Thinking Tokens
https://www.turingpost.com/p/fod122
and how they might be fueling the AI bubble
996 Just Means You Have No Leverage
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/996-just-means-you-have-no-leverage
The Performance of Work Is Not Work
An AI chatbot’s feedback style can alter your brain activity during learning
https://www.psypost.org/an-ai-chatbots-feedback-style-can-alter-your-brain-activity-during-learning
A new study shows the type of feedback a chatbot gives affects learning and brain activity. Reflective feedback boosts problem-solving, while encouraging feedback improves memory.
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
The 6 Hidden Productivity Killers - A Guide for Leaders
https://www.gitkraken.com/the-6-hidden-productivity-killers-2025
Stop flying blind on team productivity. Discover the 6 hidden killers draining 30% of engineering capacity and practical frameworks to eliminate them.
You Still Need to Think
https://calv.info/you-still-need-to-think
As coding agents become more capable and long-running, they don’t remove the human job of thinking. Someone still has to direct the work—set goals, choose constraints, and judge outputs.
Don’t Waste Your 20s Not Taking Big Risks
https://blog.nateliason.com/p/dont-waste-your-20s-not-taking-big
You have it so easy, and so little time
Acknowledgments
I didn't invented the idea of grabbing everything I couldn't process and putting it in a document. I just borrowed it (the idea and the name) from the 'Angry Metal Guy' website, which has been doing this for years. You can check their Stuck in the Filter series for more details.
