I was sitting in a team standup last Wednesday — 9:47 AM, one of those standups that should have been an email — when our lead engineer said something that ...
I was halfway through writing a script to chunk a 340-page legal contract into 8K-token segments when Sandra pinged me on Teams. "Check Claude blog. Right now."...
There is a ritual that every person interested in running AI locally has performed at least once. You read about some exciting new open-source model — maybe i...
Last Tuesday, my team lead Marcus forwarded me a research paper with the subject line "read this before our sprint planning." I almost ignored it — Marcus for...
Last week, a blog post called “The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering” by Bassim Eledath tore through Hacker News with over 200 upvotes, and I think it...
I have been writing about AI for a while now, and I thought I had developed a pretty thick skin for big numbers. Billion-dollar valuations. Hundred-billion-doll...
In August 2025, my cofounder and I sat down to figure out why our monthly software bill had jumped by $3,400 in six months. We sell project management software ...
The AI graveyard is filling up faster than anyone predicted. While everyone was busy hyping the latest GPT wrapper or celebrating another billion-dollar fundin...
I want to tell you about Mira, James, and Priya. They run a marketing agency called Canopy Digital out of Austin, Texas. Three people. No interns. No contractor...
Every AI tool you use is reading your data. The question isn't whether they are — it's what they're doing with it, how long they keep it, and whether your con...
Something shifted in early 2026, and if you blinked, you might have missed it. AI chatbots — the kind you type a question into and get a response back — ar...