Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal — Amazon (AMZN.O) must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island …
In Resurfaced Video, Wanya Morris Speaks Relationship With 16-year-old Brandy
Boyz II Men member Wanya Morris is back in the hot seat on social media for some resurfaced comments he made about his past relationship with Brandy Norwood. Let's get into it!
Black America Reacts to Shocking Gucci Mane Kidnapping
Rapper Gucci Mane faced the unthinkable after he was allegedly kidnapped and robbed. And now folks online can't stop talking about it!
Job Losses and Wall Street Woes Cloud NYC’s Economic Outlook
New York City is losing jobs, making life more difficult for Mayor Zohran Mamdani as he seeks to close a big budget deficit while emphasizing economic justice rather than growth. The city lost 20,000 jobs in 2025 to end the year with employment of 4.823 million, according to revised job numbers released Thursday by the […]
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Agent Responsibly
How to multiply your shipping cadence while using agents responsibly. Matthew Binshtok on the Vercel blog:
There is a fundamental difference between relying on AI and leveraging it.
- Relying means assuming that if the agent wrote it and the tests pass, it’s ready to ship. The author never builds a mental model of the change. The result is massive PRs full of hidden assumptions that are impossible to review because neither the author nor the reviewer has a clear picture of what the code actually does.
- Leveraging means using agents to iterate quickly while maintaining complete ownership of the output. You know exactly how the code behaves under load. You understand the associated risks. You’re comfortable owning them.
I’ve seen a lot of strong opinions about disclosing whether code in a PR was written by hand or generated by AI. I don’t really care. The author owns the code in the first place. The author and reviewer have a shared responsibility for what happens on production.
Putting your name on a pull request means “I have read this and I understand what it does.” If you have to re-read your own PR to explain how it might impact production, the engineering process has failed.
The litmus test is simple: would you be comfortable owning a production incident tied to this pull request?