What separates a chatbot from an autonomous agent? It’s not magic—it’s architecture. Understanding these building blocks is essential for anyone building or working with AI systems today. The Core Insight Lilian Weng’s foundational paper on...
A year ago, we thought copilots were the future. We were wrong—and the speed of that wrongness should terrify and excite you in equal measure. The Core Insight David Crawshaw’s latest reflection on AI agents...
You’re probably reading this on your second monitor while Cursor or Claude Code runs in the background, autocompleting your thoughts before you finish them. But what if I told you the IDE—that thing you’ve spent...
What if you could clone yourself at work? Not physically, but cognitively—spawning multiple “you”s to tackle different tasks simultaneously while you orchestrate from above. That’s essentially what a growing number of software engineers are doing...
AI was supposed to make work easier. Instead, it’s making work more. That’s the sobering finding from a new Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees at a U.S. tech company, published in Harvard Business Review....
Your AI coding agent is only as good as the context you give it. And in 2026, getting that context right has become an art form. Martin Fowler’s team just published a comprehensive breakdown of...
The IDE is dead. Long live Vi. That’s not hyperbole—it’s the lived experience of David Crawshaw, who just shared his updated perspective on programming with AI agents after eight months of intensive use. And his...
Here’s an uncomfortable truth that nobody warned us about: the productivity boost from AI tools is genuinely exhausting. We’re accomplishing more than ever—and burning out faster too. The Core Insight Research from Berkeley Haas School...
A quiet revolution is happening in how developers work. Instead of focusing on one task at a time—the traditional “flow state” approach—engineers are increasingly kicking off multiple AI agents simultaneously, managing several workstreams in parallel....
$20,000 in API fees. Two weeks. Zero orchestration. Sixteen Claude Opus 4.6 instances working in parallel just produced a 100,000-line C compiler that can build a bootable Linux kernel. This is either a glimpse of...