Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025

I read a lot of blogs, especially on technology, or at the intersection of technology and business & society. Today I wanted to share my favorites with a colleague, and thought that it would be valuable to you too, my dear reader. So without further ado, here are my favourite blogs at the moment. And yes, most are about AI, because so much interesting stuff is happening in that space. :D

In alphabetical order from my feed reader.

Doug Turnbull (aka SoftwareDoug) §

Doug has a background in information retrieval and search, and writes a super interesting blog about this, and in particular how AI agents use search.

He also has talks and courses on Maven, including the free and excellent Cheat at Search Essentials:

• BM25 + Lexical
• Vectors and Embeddings
• Evaluation, NDCG, and pals

Hamel §

Hamel is known in the AI space as “The Eval Guy” because he co-wrote a now famous blog post on Your AI Product Needs Evals. He’s a consultant in the AI space and very knowledgeable, and his blog is worth reading.

Massively Parallel Procrastination §

Jesse blogs especially about his experiments with AI development workflows in Claude Code, and I’ve definitely learned a lot from his prompts. His brainstorming prompt in particular has recently been very useful to me, because it inverts the role between developer and AI and makes it ask questions about things you may not have thought of yourself:

I've got an idea I want to talk through with you. I'd like you to help me turn it into a fully formed design and subsequent design document. Check out the current state of the project in our working directory to understand where we're starting off, then ask me questions, one at a time, to help refine the idea. Ideally, the questions would be multiple choice, but open-ended questions are OK, too. Don't forget: only one question per message. Once you believe you understand what we're doing, stop and describe the design to me, in sections of maybe 200-300 words at a time, asking after each section whether it looks right so far.

Here's the idea:

One Useful Thing §

Ethan Mollick works in business education, and thinks and writes a lot of insightful posts about AI, what it can do, and what it might do to businesses and societies at large.

Of the blogs mentioned here, this one makes me think the most about the larger picture, and I like that a lot.

Simon Willison §

I know Simon gets mentioned a lot, but he deserves it! He is the goto person for news in the AI technology space. Read his feed. If you don’t have time for all those posts, subscribe to his monthly overview instead.