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Erik Anderson

AI news, agentic workflows, and real automation stories for engineers and builders who ship. 5x/week, 12-15 minutes. Powered by ScanBrief — 54 tech sources scored daily. Hosted by Erik Anderson, a network automation engineer running 81 projects with a fleet of 5 AI agents. Not theory. Systems running in production.

  1. 2D AGO

    Build or Be Replaced — Friday, May 22

    Today: Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart | The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics | Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

    14 min

  2. 3D AGO

    Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, May 21

    Today: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension | Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

    15 min

  3. 4D AGO

    Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, May 20

    Today: Gemini 3.5 Flash | I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of | Google changes its search box

    9 min

  4. 5D AGO

    Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, May 19

    Today: The last six months in LLMs in five minutes | Click (2016) | Anthropic acquires Stainless

    9 min

  5. MAY 14

    Build or Be Replaced — Thursday, May 14

    Today: Claude for Small Business | Scorched Earth 2000 – Web | Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

    13 min

  6. MAY 13

    Build or Be Replaced — Wednesday, May 13

    Today: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers | Googlebook | Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

    13 min

  7. MAY 12

    Build or Be Replaced — Tuesday, May 12

    Today: Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise | They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker | If AI writes your code, why use Python?

    10 min

  8. MAY 11

    Build or Be Replaced — Monday, May 11

    Today: Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | Local AI needs to be the norm | I'm going back to writing code by hand

    9 min
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AI news, agentic workflows, and real automation stories for engineers and builders who ship. 5x/week, 12-15 minutes. Powered by ScanBrief — 54 tech sources scored daily. Hosted by Erik Anderson, a network automation engineer running 81 projects with a fleet of 5 AI agents. Not theory. Systems running in production.

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