Amazon’s Super Bowl ad wasn’t just selling home security—it was normalizing the most extensive private surveillance infrastructure ever built in American neighborhoods. The Core Insight Ring’s new “Search Party” program, unveiled during Super Bowl LX,...
A rigorous empirical study demolishes common assumptions about how to structure context for LLM agents operating on structured data. The Core Insight Every AI agent needs context. But how should you format that context? YAML?...
New research reveals that AI adoption isn’t reducing workload — it’s creating a fundamentally new kind of cognitive exhaustion. The Core Insight The promise was seductive: AI handles the boring stuff, you focus on what...
What if you spent $1,000 on tokens per engineer per day—and let the AI write everything? That’s not a hypothetical. It’s exactly what StrongDM’s AI team has been doing since July 2025. And their results...
Some weeks at a company feel normal. Others feel like controlled chaos where everything clicks into place at impossible speed. Ben Kuhn, who’s been at Anthropic through several such weeks, just shared a detailed playbook...
The world’s nuclear treaties are dying. New START expired last week. And researchers are proposing something that sounds like science fiction: using satellites and AI to monitor the world’s nukes. This is Plan B. And...
Why “thinking longer” is the secret weapon that transformed AI reasoning — and what it means for the future of intelligent systems. The Core Insight When OpenAI released o1 and DeepSeek unveiled R1, the AI...
Back in June 2023, OpenAI’s Lilian Weng published what has become the definitive technical overview of LLM-powered autonomous agents. Nearly three years later, as we witness the explosion of Claude Code, Cursor agents, and coding...
“If you haven’t spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement.” That’s not hyperbole from a random Twitter thread. It’s a guiding principle from a three-person...
Ask a trial lawyer if AI could replace her and she won’t even look up from her brief. Ask a startup founder who’s never practiced law and he’ll tell you it’s already happening. They’re both...