In this month’s retrospective, I write from Italy’s Marche region, where slow living, daily runs in Conero, and family time beat the winter blues. I reflect on leaning harder into large language model agents, a standout pair of running shoes, a stack of AI reading (from Hugging Face, GPTZero, and X’s algorithm), and share music, podcast, and TV picks—including Sasha Marie’s mixes, two insightful podcast episodes, The Pitt, and plenty of Australian Open tennis.
Relevant links:
Original articleMarche (Wikipedia)Conero Regional ParkHow to police your agentsNew Balance FuelCell Rebel v5Smol Training Playbook (Hugging Face)X recommendation algorithm (GitHub)GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papersFineWeb: decanting the web for the finest text data at scaleOld Man’s War (Wikipedia)LLMOps (O’Reilly)Sasha Marie (Instagram)SASHA MARIE RADIO (SoundCloud)Chapter #134 (SoundCloud)The Knowledge Project Podcast interview with Morgan HouselState of Agentic Coding with Armin and BenArmin Ronacher’s blogThe Pitt (Rotten Tomatoes)Affari tuoi (Wikipedia)