Weekly LOL • W22 • 2025

Weekly Link Out Loud - LOLs - are the collection of links that were interesting enough that I made a note of them. Sharing them publicly in case you also find them interesting.

It's WWDC week and I am very excited about what the eventual UX design changes might be. There are some very interesting trends at play this year and I am very curious if Apple will be able to overcome the narrative headwinds (developer distrust, big company syndrome, lack of care and AI lateness) with a UX design. It's also going to be very interesting at a moment where developer tailwinds are for more web design. As much as iOS matters, the web is one area where Apple's not been able to leverage its design chops as it's truly the wild west.

Anyway, some great links this week to think about:

• How F1's slowest car was upgraded to a Ferrari-beater: Sauber has generally been the slowest package in the 2025 F1 field. But on the weekend its big upgrade arrived, it beat a Ferrari to fifth on merit. A dive into how they managed and might it be sustainable?
• Michael Tsai - Blog - WWDC 2025 Preview: A collection of previews of WWDC 2025 from MJ Tsai
• How Daft Punk Changed Music: How Daft Punk Changed Music - a discographical documentary of the musical legends of Daft Punk and how they've changed music forever.
• Some thoughts on human-AI relationships: In the light of the behavior of the Diabolus Ex Machina essay, this one is a good read on how OpenAI is thinking about model behavior.
• Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not An Essay. When chatgpt screws up, it screws up bigly without remorse and keeps making mistakes all the while apologizing if and only if you push back. And when you push back, it goes into a weird mode of non apology-apologies because there's no remorse or changing of tactics. Just fascinating.
• Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life: Middle East is the next area for super apps.
• When We Become Cheerleaders for Our Own Demise MyNotes: Why do we become cheerleaders for our own demise? A look at
• Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom: What happens when developers stop understanding code and just trust the 'vibe'? A real case of vulnerability hidden behind 'perfect' AI code and the implications for programming's future.
• How Marc Andreessen and I (and you) created the web: I’ve never met Marc Andreessen, although at one time in the distant past we were Twitter friends — I enjoyed the long threads he used to do, and I wrote about a few of them at Gigaom in a pre…
• Yes, DOGE failed — and it matters: You can't drastically reduce government spending without hurting people
• The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.: Truly inspired post. Great going alex.party :)
• Putting an untrusted layer of chatbot AI between you and the internet is an obvious disaster waiting to happen: adding an untrusted middleman to your information diet and all of your personal communications will eventually become a disaster that will be obvious in hindsight.
• Multiplayer AI chat and conversational turn-taking sharing what we learnt: Posted on Friday 23 May 2025. 3,087 words, 19 links. By Matt Webb.
• Sticky Coordination Headwinds: Coordination as an organization scales tends to be slow and requires a lot of logistics. It can be paralyzing if the org also doesn't have the focus on velocity and instead consensus is celebrated. This can easily slide into paralysis with the timelines increasing forever as people keep agreeing without committing. As a product manager, I've found the way to break out of this is to call it out kindly but once you build the alliances that can support the rally.