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Daily Digest - 2026-05-26

1. claude code is not making your product better — ethan ding 📊 Why read: Shows how AI coding tools create a K shaped productivity curve and lead to...
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AI Authorship Has Been Here Before

A legal history argues that AI authorship is not a new copyright problem but the latest form of mediated authorship. Earlier disputes over photography and mechanical creation reveal recurring legal tests for control and originality.
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Train the Agent Where It Actually Runs

Polar shows how to train coding agents through the harnesses they already use instead of rebuilding those environments for reinforcement learning. The approach preserves realistic tools and feedback while making training operationally tractable.
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Food AI Needs Knobs Beyond Recommendations

Epicure shows how ingredient embeddings can become navigable tools for cooking, menu design, and food AI. The system turns flavor relationships into controllable dimensions for substitution, exploration, menu planning, and creative composition rather than returning another opaque ranking.
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Lessons from Aidan Gomez

Aidan Gomez co authored the 2017 "Attention Is All You Need" paper, which introduced the Transformer architecture that powers modern AI. He left Google...
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Lessons from Alan Kay

Lessons from Alan Kay Alan Kay helped define the personal computer through his early work on graphical interfaces and object oriented programming at Xerox...
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Lessons from Bill Buxton

Bill Buxton is a Canadian computer scientist and designer who spent years as a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. He is best known for his work in...
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Lessons from Brenda Laurel

Lessons from Brenda Laurel Brenda Laurel treated software interfaces as stages for action, applying Aristotelian drama to computer design. When the video...

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