18+ hour, 35+ min ago  (187+ words) It is very clear that the practice of software engineering is being upended by AI. A large, growing portion of all new code is now written by AI agents. AI models are also becoming indispensable for understanding large codebases, fixing…...

19+ hour, 35+ min ago  (766+ words) From 1950 to 1990, Japan's GDP grew at a remarkable 6. 8% annually, lifting the country from the world's 29th largest economy to the 2nd " and making it the first real economic rival to the post-war United States. The Japanese economic boom was built on manufacturing…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (737+ words) Based on our internal data and conversations with corporate executives, we find that statistic hard to believe. We have been closely tracking where AI is seeing the most adoption and where ROI has been clear, and have compiled hard data…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1442+ words) But imagine if Artemis II was instead designed as a 1000-day mission to Mars and back. Making the trip a few years long instead of a few days might make the capsule seem a little less hospitable" " the crew would…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (893+ words) San Francisco used to be a city where you assumed your car would get broken into. It was the kind of thing residents joked about bitterly for years " don't leave anything visible in it, set aside part of your paycheck…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (820+ words) This week, someone hijacked one of the most popular packages on the internet and used it to install a backdoor on every machine that ran npm install. The package was Axios, which is the HTTP library that powers network requests…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (203+ words) The MSP market is the backbone of the US tech economy. MSPs collectively generate over $200 B in annual revenue across roughly 40, 000 independent businesses. As technology becomes more central to how every business runs, the need for someone to manage it…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (111+ words) Marc Andreessen joins David Senra for a conversation about entrepreneurship, history, and what drives some of the world's most ambitious builders. In this conversation with David, Marc reflects on patterns he's seen across great founders, why many of them focus…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (628+ words) Behind every building is a chain of firms you've never heard of, doing work you've never thought about, in a $13 trillion industry that technology has largely bypassed. They're all, still, running on software from 1997. In 1997, a team of engineers set…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (186+ words) Do tariffs help rebuild American manufacturing or hold it back? In this episode, American Compass founder and chief economist Oren Cass sits down with commentator and author Noah Smith and a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg for a lively debate on the…...