Stuck in the Filter - W49
2025-12-05
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.
AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/generative-ai-meets-the-genome
Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that.
New Artificial Intelligence Model Could Speed Rare Disease Diagnosis
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/new-artificial-intelligence-model-could-speed-rare-disease-diagnosis
PopEVE can identify genetic variants most likely to cause severe disease, death
A father’s quest for diagnosis inspired a disruptive AI solution - Source EMEA
Three months after Julián Isla’s son Sergio was born, the infant’s arms and legs suddenly began to shake and his body stiffened during a routine bath.
How good engineers write bad code at big companies
https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies
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wsj.com
OpenAI’s “Code Red”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-code-red
Maybe people should have seen this coming?
The Junior Hiring Crisis | People Work
https://people-work.io/blog/junior-hiring-crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
Users scramble as critical open source project left to die • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/ingress_nginx_opinion
Opinion: Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome
Bun is joining Anthropic | Bun Blog
https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
Using AI to accelerate hiring and productivity at Zapier
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/using-ai-to-accelerate-hiring-and-productivity-at-zapier
Lessons from Zapier’s experience building hundreds of internal AI agents to reduce engineering friction.
Generative AI’s Real Impact on Workforce Productivity in 2025—What Gartner & the Fed Data Really Say - AI & Data Sci. - yoDEV
Generative AI’s Real Impact on Workforce Productivity in 2025—What Gartner & the Fed Data Really Say Introduction The generative AI productivity debate has reached a fever pitch in 2025. While headlines scream about revolutionary gains, executives demand hard numbers. The reality? AI’s impact on workforce productivity is both more nuanced and more measurable than the hype suggests. Cutting through the noise requires triangulating multiple data sources: Gartner’s latest surveys revealing the…
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.
