Writing

Two weeks after Anthropic's hardware standard shipped, the limits on a plate reader are prose in an agent prompt. Three questions to ask before yours gets a driver.

DeepMind precomputed every possible single-letter change in the human genome. I covered this model from the blog post last year. This time I read the preprint.

OpenAI published two posts on the same Sunday. One counts everything it can measure about AI doing AI research. The other admits what it can't see. Together they say where the limit on progress now...

I went on a podcast to argue that leaders have to build. The episode came out named after a word I used once, by accident, and it was the better idea.

The morning before my first day I went for a run through Chicago, and a couple of miles in I recognised the route.

Anthropic deleted more than 80% of Claude Code's system prompt and lost nothing they could measure. I ran the same test on my own instructions. I now know the answer for one file out of ninety-three.

A two-year-old harness, ported in an afternoon, for under forty cents. Then the model that did it wrote this post.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.