Fragments: April 9

I mostly link to written material here, but I’ve recently listened to two excellent podcasts that I can recommend. Anyone who regularly reads these fragments knows that I’m a big fan of Simon Willison, his (also very fragmentary) posts have earned a regular spot in my RSS reader. But the problem with fragments, however valuable, is that they don’t provide a cohesive overview of the situation. So his podcast with Lenny Rachitsky is a welcome survey of that state of world as seen through a discerning pair of eyeballs. He paints a good picture of how programming has changed for him since the “November inflection point”, important patterns for this work, and his concern about the security bomb nestled inside the beast. My other great listening was on a regular podcast that I listen to, as Gergely Orosz interviewed Thuan Pham - the former CTO of Uber. As with so many of Gergely’s podcasts, they focused on Thuan Pham’s fascinating career direction, giving listeners an opportunity to learn fr