In which @stevenlevy.bsky.social lays out what drew him to covering Silicon Valley years ago, and how the industry has arrived at an incredibly dangerous place of political pandering. www.wired.com/story/silico...

After an onboarding call, I was given a desk at Notion. (It's a fun office. A fully-stocked kitchen. Lots of dogs. There's a jazz club downstairs.)

Because we still make a magazine, and honestly, it’s great to take a pause from screens and read about the future in paper form (that's a cover story I wrote, yay)

The next era of vibe coding is...vibe debugging. New, in @wired.com www.wired.com/story/cursor...

OpenAI's Sam Altman just showed up at AMD's AI event, and is being interviewed by AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage. Su asks how he's seeing compute demand change; Altman says one of the biggest shifts is the move to reasoning models. Adds that this puts a lot of pressure on model efficiency

An extremely online breakup is happening and it’s only the country at stake www.wired.com/story/musk-t...

New Pope Leo XIV finally getting some rest after a long eventful day

Also in @stevenlevy.bsky.social's newsletter: When senior engineers at USDS & TTS told DOGE staffers about diff aspects of software architecture, product mgmt, system monitoring & production system scaling, some of the the DOGE 20-somethings had zero experience w/ these www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Apple Podcasts recommends our show! (Screenshot is from, er, the other place) Listen heeeeere podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...