As September draws to a close, we have some excellent advice for leaders, a really lovely piece of writing, and yet more on LLMs, because that’s kind of what we do here. Summer is on its way here in New Zealand - we can almost taste it! Have a great week everyone!

Behind The Scenes of Bun Install | Bun Blog

Link: https://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-install

An excellent writeup on how Bun achieves its crazy performance gains over npm and yarn and the like. Look at the gains from treating it like a systems problem instead of a JavaScript problem. Great work and detail from this team.

Always invite Anna

Link: https://sharif.io/anna-alexei

It doesn’t take much to make someone feel included. I’ve been in situations like this for years at a time, more than once. If you have people around you that are like this, hold on to them. You’ll need them one day.

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus

Link: https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Lessons-from-Building-Manus

This is a tonne of really useful info and insight into building a proper agent all in one place from the Manus team. It feels like my corner of the internet doesn’t really talk about Manus any more but this content is great.

The third chair - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland

Link: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/third-chair

Wow. The message I take from this is to keep going. Beautiful writing.

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts

Link: https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts

“Developers” are generally bad at these types of skills. If you can get good at translating between the business and the technical, you’ll increase your leverage significantly. The average developer wants to stay in their bubble and avoid the messy human side of things, but that’s where the opportunity is. Look for it in the work you’re unwilling to do.