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   Paul Graham Traces How Swiss Watches Became Pure Brand

   When quartz killed accuracy as a differentiator, Swiss watchmakers survived by turning their products into status symbols. Graham argues this tension between branding and good design is one of the defining forces of our era.

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   Coding After Coders

   The NYT interviews 70+ developers at Google, Amazon, and startups who now spend their days talking to AI agents instead of writing code.

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   IronCurtain Sandboxes AI Agents Before They Can Do Damage

   Niels Provos builds a security-first architecture for personal AI assistants, using V8 isolates and Docker containers as chokepoints, with plain-English policy that compiles to deterministic rules.

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   Craig Mod Built His Dream Accounting Software in Five Days

   Writer and photographer Craig Mod went "software bonkers," using Claude Code to build a custom multi-currency tax dashboard that replaced a decade of Quicken pain.

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   He Topped the LLM Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight

   A researcher duplicated seven middle layers of a 72B model, giving it a second pass through its own "reasoning circuits," and hit #1 on HuggingFace's Open LLM Leaderboard.

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