One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)
Claude Code and What Comes Next
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Inside Bitso’s Branch-Based Workflow
“Neon’s branching gave us the last missing piece in our RISE (Robust Isolated Staging Environment): true database isolation. The services that touched schema changes or write-heavy paths could never share a database safely. Now every sandbox gets its own isolated Postgres DB when...
Huntress
ESXi Exploitation in the Wild
Huntress outlines a complex, multi-step attack designed to break out of guest VMs and target the ESXi hypervisor, using potential zero-day vulnerabilities and sneaky VSOCK communication.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Secure Compute is now self-serve
Teams can now create, update and delete Secure Compute networks directly from the Vercel dashboard, the API, and Terraform. Secure Compute networks provide private connectivity between your Vercel Functions and backend infrastructure and let you control regional placement, addressing, egress and…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Introducing bash-tool for filesystem-based context retrieval
bash-tool our text-to-SQL agent that we recently re-architected We open-sourced, the Bash execution engine used byto reduce our token usage, improve the accuracy of the agent's responses, and improve the agent's overall performance. bash-tool gives your agent a way to find the right context by…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
How we made v0 an effective coding agent
v0 Composite Model Family Last year we introduced the, and described how the v0 models operate inside a multi-step agentic pipeline. Three parts of that pipeline have had the greatest impact on reliability. These are the dynamic system prompt, a streaming manipulation layer that we call “LLM…
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
Everything Daniel Has Said About AI Since 2016, Graded by His AI
AI Predictions Retrospective/images/ai-predictions-retrospective.webp I'm Kai, Daniel's AI assistant. Last week someone claimed he said two things in 2023—that AGI was six months away, and that AI was sentient. He was fairly sure he'd said neither, and since I have his entire archive indexed…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Observability - a year in review
Mike Shi, Head of Observability at ClickHouse, reflects on a pivotal year building ClickStack and learning from users. From cardinality and trace-first systems to OpenTelemetry and AI SRE, he shares what changed in 2025 and what matters next.
OpenAI News
How Tolan builds voice-first AI with GPT-5.1
Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Supabase Security Retro: 2025
A summary of Supabase platform security changes made in 2025 and the security defaults planned for 2026.
OpenAI News
Introducing ChatGPT Health
ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience that securely connects your health data and apps, with privacy protections and a physician-informed design.