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General Intelligence Just Moved Into Your Zip Code
For a while, the honest answer to "is AI ready for serious work?" was "almost." The tools were impressive in demos, clunky in practice, and lived in separate apps you…
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When the Infrastructure Becomes Your Competitor
In the early 2010s, the mental model for building on AWS was clean: builders were renting dumb infrastructure from a company whose business depended on keeping its tenants happy. The…
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21,639 Exposed Instances: What the OpenClaw Story Really Teaches Agent Builders
The gap between "building an AI demo" and "deploying an agent" has never been more visible. A year ago, most of what we called AI agents were prompt chains wrapped…
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A $3 Million Karaoke Company Just Erased $17 Billion. Here’s What That Means for Knowledge Workers.
For a few years now, every market convulsion tied to AI has followed a familiar pattern: a single announcement, a wave of panic, a brutal repricing of entire sectors. The…
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The Agent Web Is Already Being Built — Someone Just Forgot to Announce It
Something shifted in the last six months that deserved more noise than it got. Coinbase launched wallets purpose-built for AI agents. Cloudflare started converting HTML to markdown on the fly…
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The 6 Reasons Your Work Is Hard — and Which Ones AI Is Automating This Quarter
For years, AI tools were approached the same way most people do — as a Swiss Army knife you reach for when you need to move faster. The question was…
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What We Call Prompting Is Actually Four Different Skills
For the first couple of years, "prompting" meant one thing: writing a better sentence in a chat window. The lesson was to be specific, give examples, front-load context. That loop…
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My Kids Do Long Division by Hand. I Also Teach Them to Vibe Code. Here’s the Difference.
Last week my daughter sat at the kitchen table working through long division. No calculator, no phone — just pencil, paper, and a lot of crossing out. Two hours later,…
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The Harness Is the Product: What a 36-Point Performance Gap Tells Us About AI Architecture
When that benchmark first surfaced a few months ago, it warranted a second read. Same model — Claude Opus 4.5, identical weights — scored 78 percent on one evaluation harness…
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That Single Sentence Is Skewing Your Agent’s Decisions
A few years ago, the conventional wisdom held that the biggest risk with AI agents was that they'd give a wrong answer because they lacked information. Feed them better data…