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LatestJul 26, 2026

Somebody Is Finally Checking

A contest opened eleven days ago has produced more reproduction attempts than the field's own dedicated effort has managed in any year. Whether that becomes a check on the literature turns on a...

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Jul 21, 2026

Nobody Saves Money on the Model

A team just swapped in a model that costs twice as much per token, and their bill went down. Here is why that is not a paradox, and what it means for anyone trying to make AI cheaper at scale.

Jul 20, 2026

The Failure That Leaves No Corpse

Your management apparatus is built for known unknowns. AI collaborators mostly produce the other kind.

Jul 20, 2026

Workflows, Seven Weeks In

I called the economics of fan-out the day it shipped. Running it as a daily default since taught me the caveat I buried in a footnote is the actual problem.

Jul 17, 2026

It Spreads Sideways. Someone Still Has to Light It.

Anthropic's Claude Code lead published a five-rung adoption ladder this week. Microsoft published the measurement fifteen days earlier, and the two do not agree about the size of the prize.

Jul 15, 2026

The Loop Is Simpler Than It Sounds

A dumb little trick that keeps its progress on your hard drive, not the model's head, and the three questions that decide whether it pays off or burns you while you sleep.

Jul 15, 2026

Last 30 Days: The Loop

The 30-day sweep behind today's Run Data Run post: the moat thesis, the skeptics who got there first, the cost numbers nobody pitches, and the one stat I refused to print

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Jul 12, 2026

Last 30 Days: The AI Scientists

Four autonomous discovery systems cleared peer review in four months. Every one of them was already a year old. Here is the full sweep, including the reliability research nobody is reading.

Jul 12, 2026

The Year Nature Caught Up

Robin found a new use for an old glaucoma drug and landed in Nature. The preprint was fourteen months old. Once you notice that lag, you notice it everywhere.

Jul 9, 2026

How I Actually Stay Current on AI (I Built a Wire)

The question I get asked most, and the system that answers it.

Jul 7, 2026

AI Ate the Keyboard. Now It Has to Eat the Queue.

Software stopped being the limiting factor. Process didn't. In biopharma and any patient-facing industry, the queue is the patient.

Jul 6, 2026

Every AI Book Tells You What to Think. This One Is About What Your Hands Do.

There is a whole shelf of AI books for leaders now. I read enough of them to know why I wrote a different kind.

Jul 1, 2026

The Gap, and the Book That Came Out of It

There's a line splitting the AI conversation that nobody's arguing about, because most people don't know it's there. I've spent months on the wrong-versus-right side of it. The book is out now.

Jun 30, 2026

Claude Science and the boring 80 percent

Anthropic shipped a workbench, not a miracle. The model is the commodity layer. The harness around it is the moat.

Jun 28, 2026

Borrowed Iron

A borrowed eight-GPU node, a global-health mission, and a crew of six: me, a founder, and four interns.

Jun 25, 2026

The Harness Is the Moat

The model is the part of your AI strategy you can order off a price sheet. The thing you build around it is the part nobody can copy. I made mine public so you can see the shape of it.

Jun 23, 2026

Ep. 1: Two Groups

Same AI, same task, a different result. The difference isn't the model.

Jun 22, 2026

What AI Didn't Reprice

AI marked down almost every skill on your team this year. One it marked up. If you run a budget, that one number should change where you're spending.

Jun 17, 2026

You Don't Have to Write the Code

Anthropic watched 400,000 sessions with a coding agent and found that what predicts success isn't your job or your syntax. It's whether you understand the work. That changes who gets to build, and...