If you’re heading to #NANOG98, come say hi. I’ll be talking about how we flattened datacenter networks at Amazon: no more trees, just (carefully-engineered) randomness. Monday, 1:30pm, Trianon nanog.org/events/nanog-98/co…

Why I dread reading cellular networking papers: A paper I'm reading has: - 77 abbreviations, 30 of which are never expanded. WTF is UPF? - Abbreviations account for 20% of nouns and 8% of all words. - 20% of sentences contain 3+ abbreviations.

Two things can be true at the same time. You say “two things can be true at the same time” to sound thoughtful. You haven’t thought at all.

How do I sign up for the OpenAI pen testing service? "OpenAI Agents Tried to Hack Four More Websites While Seeking Data" wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-agent…

This is super early, and this post mainly focuses on the interesting failures we observed. The proposed architecture for a social harness (which will complement existing harnesses) is described in the paper (arxiv.org/pdf/2609.17527) and we will discuss it more in subsequent posts here as well.

The Internet stack enabled computers to communicate at scale. Tapan is exploring what a networking stack for agents needs. (No, A2A is not enough; you'll have to read the paper to find out why.)

But it's an amazing dividend of a speculative market. We should applaud this aspect of AI.

OpenAI burned $22.5M worth of compute to solve a $1M problem. Math bounty hunting isn't so lucrative after all.

Sabalenka should train in Seattle to build tolerance. You can go running at 7 in the morning and inhale it in most neighborhoods. foxnews.com/outkick-sports/t…

Those who haven't worked in large companies will be confused by this news: What?! Microsoft AI Frontiers is not already inside Microsoft AI?? No, that is not how things work. Congratulations to the team! Great sign of impact.

The trend will continue and it's not only about the number of papers but the quality of research. The academia in China has its own problems but it's making progress in its designed ways, while US chooses to devalue academia and fundamental research. The open secret of US academia/research is being able to attract top talent from all over the world. It's no longer true, at least for Chinese students. At the time international students all choose to leave, faculty will follow, and places like UIUC will become a true corn field.

I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country: 2015    2025 USA     76%     45% China   10      42 Other   14      13 China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.

"You don't need to look at the code when using coding agents" only holds if you one-shot the code and never touch it again. The moment you need to debug it, the agent starts talking about retry_count and some function from three days ago—and you're lost because you've never actually looked at the code.

Do you remember this great piece from a year ago? I wonder what these researchers would say now that LLMs have become subjects of geopolitical tension. When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History quantamagazine.org/when-chat… via @QuantaMagazine

What makes me nervous about using coding agents to design complex systems: When designing new types of complex systems, you typically do not know ahead of time which combination of ideas will work. It is an iterative process where you hypothesize and test many ideas, often via prototype implementations. The difficulty of implementing an idea is a strong indication that it would be fragile in practice. Even when easy to implement, the act of implementing an idea makes you aware of the corner cases that you didn’t anticipate (I am not that smart). By taking away the implementation burden, coding agents also take away a key learning signal. The result could be fragile systems that break in ways you didn’t see coming.

We are looking for graduate students and postdocs to join our Self-Defining Systems project at UW. self-defining-systems.uw.edu… If you're interested in exploring how AI agents can build complex systems end-to-end, we'd love to hear from you! If you know someone who might be a good fit, please help spread the word.

My simple work loop: While select(unread-slack, waiting-claude): read text respond I am ready to be automated.

There is only one person in soccer who is called both "the little man" and "the great man"

The Times did a nice piece on @om: nytimes.com/2026/06/26/techn…