Enterprises are rapidly deploying generative AI systems to streamline performance reviews. Citi’s Performance Assist pulls data from across its organization to draft evaluations. JPMorgan’s LLM Suite supports the writing of year-end reviews. Boston Consulting Group’s internal AI assistant reportedly…

There is a certain kind of computer review that is really a permission slip. It tells you what you’re allowed to want. It locates you in a taxonomy — student, creative, professional, power user — and assigns you a product. It is helpful. It is responsible. It has very little interest in what you…

Among the working titles for this post were Good riddance and Stop the praises, and I haven’t chosen them not because I thought they were somehow mean-spirited, but because they sounded like coming from a place of deep care. They sounded like the reaction of someone with deep emotional investment in…

Essay The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times. April 17, 2026 Illustration by Bill Rebholz My dear friend sighs, slides her phone across the table between us so that…

A Reporter at Large The former President remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. What are his obligations to it? May 4, 2026 Obama argues that, if he constantly responds to Donald Trump, “I’m not a political leader, I’m a commentator.”Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New…

“Developing superintelligence is now in sight,” says Mark Zuckerberg, heralding the “creation and discovery of new things that aren’t imaginable today.” Powerful AI “may come as soon as 2026 [and will be] smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields,” says Dario Amodei, offering the…

Bartolomeo Sala You start your book by saying: “It is not just you, the internet is getting worse, fast.” You’re adamant enshittification is not the result of vaguely related phenomena but a precise logic that repeats with clockwork precision. In your book, you describe “enshittification” as a…

Two weeks ago, I quit my job. It wasn’t a bad job, not by most metrics. It ticked the boxes a job is supposed to tick: good pay. Health insurance. Remote work. Time off. Nice coworkers. I worked as our org’s only design engineer and maintainer of our design system. My job was to build components, to…

Guest Essay April 26, 2026 Credit...Tamara Porras Listen · 8:43 min See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Artificial intelligence can be wondrous, but the…

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An…

This is part of our package about Apple’s 50th anniversary, read more here. It’s 1989. To play a video, listen to a song, or show photos on a desktop computer requires bolting on expensive hardware, built by a different company, using different software. There are no standards, no portability, no…

Liftoff. At 6:35 pm ET on April 2, a Space Launch System rocket lifted an Orion capsule from Earth. On board were Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. As of Thursday, they became the first humans to go beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo 17…

Last Tuesday I was on a coaching call with an engineering manager. Let's call her Sarah (because that's her name). She was describing a situation I've now heard about forty times in the last twelve months. Her most senior developer, a guy with twelve years of experience and very strong opinions…

In his monumental work “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, historian Edward Gibbon argued that empires rarely collapse suddenly. Their decline is usually gradual, shaped by long-term structural changes. Yet, history occasionally records moments when a single strategic…

Last week, I read a story about how Waymo (self-driving taxi service) is partnering with Door Dash (food delivery service). And it surprised me. I was genuinely shocked. I couldn’t believe it. Because when I first read the headline, I thought it must be about putting food in a car and driving it off…

Contents March has a way of bringing a lot of new things to WebKit — and this year is no exception. With 44 features, 191 fixes and one deprecation, Safari 26.4 is a release packed with web technology. What’s most exciting? CSS Grid Lanes brings masonry-style layouts to the web platform — a…

Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. In the past few weeks, Americans learned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled half a billion dollars of government investment in the development of mRNA vaccines, Las Vegas saw a 7 percent drop in visitors,…

On Software Quality is a very fine article by Nick Heer I suggest you read. There’s a passage I don’t fully agree with: There was a time when remaining on an older major version of an operating system or some piece of software meant you traded the excitement of new features for the predictability of…

When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many years before), and so my father had decided I had to spend my holiday weekend staying with him, not her, and…

Bias toward action is defaulting to the smallest responsible step that produces real feedback, while pre-committing to guardrails so that being wrong is survivable and quickly correctable. “Bias toward action” sounds like something a startup founder shouts before doing something reckless. It’s not.…

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. I’ve arrived in the middle of a vast expanse of what looks like green LEGO plastic subdivided into fenced lots. Mozart’s “Turkish March” plays sourcelessly over a chorus of…

A few weeks ago, stock prices for SaaS (Software as a Service) companies have dropped significantly. It seems that many people expect AI to be capable of writing such tools at very low cost soon. But these events could be only forerunners for much bigger things yet to come. What happens on a broad…

This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, and Mac all lit up with a message prompting me to reset my password. This came out of nowhere; I hadn’t done…

On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded with a radical idea: that powerful computing should be personal. Fifty years later, Apple stands as one of the most influential technology companies in history—shaping not only products, but culture, design, and how billions of people interact with…

Some camera-equipped Apple devices have dedicated camera indicator lights. E.g. recent MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs have them in the notch, next to the camera itself. The Studio Display has one in the bezel, next to its camera. Other devices — like iPhones and, now, the MacBook Neo — render a green…

Comprehension debt is the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation. For engineers, it applies most to agentic engineering. There’s a cost that doesn’t show up in your velocity metrics when teams go deep on AI coding tools. Especially when…

Over the years I’ve been writing here, I’ve often used the term speed bump to describe a certain type of hardware update: a new version of an existing product where the new stuff is mostly faster components, especially the CPU and GPU, but where a lot of the product, including the enclosure, remains…

Lately, I’ve been getting the same question over and over. Where do I think product design headed? Everyone working in software is looking at what AI can do and asking, what’s next? It’s both an exciting and unsettling time. So I wanted to write about how I’m thinking about this right now—not as a…

27.2.2026 browsersTILCSS tl;dr On Safari 26 on MacOS/iOS/iPadOS 26 the theme color for the browser UI is either taken from the site’s body background color or the topmost position-fixed element with a background-color if there is one. theme-color meta tag and theme_color manifest member do not…

The search for the perfect web browser feels like a modern quest. We seek a tool that is fast, secure, respects our privacy, and stays out of our way. The latest entrant into this crowded field is Helium, a browser that promises an "internet without interruptions." It's built to be lightweight,…

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the teams content and…

In May, OpenAI agreed to pay $3 billion for Windsurf, the AI coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. Three billion dollars. For a VSCode fork. The deal eventually fell apart, but what matters is that they wanted to do it in the first place. Last week, Anthropic made an interesting acquisition:…

Even when most big corporations give us something open-source, it seems we still can't escape the clutches of their data-hungry ways. That's why new projects are often born from these corporate efforts, to right what's so often wrong with big tech's idea of "open-source." Helium is one such effort:…

When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right. But the longer I’ve stayed, the more I’ve realized that the engineers who thrive aren’t necessarily the best programmers - they’re the ones who’ve figured out how to navigate everything around the…

Newsletter David French Jan. 29, 2026 By Opinion Columnist Leer en español You’re reading the David French newsletter. Reflections on law and culture, war and peace, and the deeper trends that define and divide America. It’s important to know exactly what is happening in our country. President Trump…

Infinite Scroll The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions. October 22, 2025 Illustration by Ariel Davis You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes…

Imagine you were Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke up a year ago having magically been given command of puppet strings that control the White House. Your explicit geopolitical goal is to undermine trust in the United States on the world stage. You want to destroy the Western rules-based…