The New Era of AI Employment For centuries, people have worried about robots taking away jobs. But on February 1, 2026, everything changed: bots started creating jobs instead. Now, over 518,000 humans are offering their...
The Most Capable Midsized Model Yet Anthropic has dropped Sonnet 4.6 — its latest midsized AI model — packing serious upgrades in coding, instruction-following, and computer use. What’s New? 1 Million Token Context Window —...
Hook The fastest way to make an AI coding agent useful is not to give it more permissions. It is to give it better tools. A small detail in Simon Willison’s write-up about Rodney and...
If you have ever tried to make an AI assistant “stick” inside a company, you already know the hard part is not model quality. It is distribution, context, and workflow gravity. The most valuable AI...
The fastest way to make an AI agent feel useful is not to make it “smarter.” It is to give it the right capabilities at the right moment. In practice, that means shipping small, well-scoped...
If you have ever watched a coding agent do something brilliant and then immediately do something baffling, you have already discovered the real product surface area of agentic development: context. The model is not “smart”...
If you build or operate coding agents, you are already designing a socio-technical system—not just shipping software. One surprisingly sharp lever in that system is vocabulary: the words we use to describe roles, authority, and...
If you have ever used a paint-bucket tool in an image editor, you already understand the seduction of automation: one click, and the color races outward until it hits a boundary. Robin Sloan borrows that...
“I am having more fun programming than I ever have.” That’s not a typical quote from someone working through “AI apocalypse” headlines. But David Crawshaw—a Google engineer—sees something different in AI agents: unprecedented creative exploration....
There’s a particular feeling that’s creeping into the software engineering community—a sense of loss, of something valuable being taken away. Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer, put it plainly: “I’m coming to terms with...