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Jun 10, 2026 · 3 min read
While everyone argued about AGI timelines, AI agents crossed a quieter threshold: they now resolve the majority of support tickets at hundreds of companies. Here's how it happened, and what breaks next.
Jun 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Frontier models grab the headlines, but a counter-trend is reshaping enterprise AI budgets: small, fine-tuned models running cheap, fast, and on-premise. The economics are hard to argue with.
Jun 6, 2026 · 3 min read
After years of browser-tab chaos and abandoned note apps, I rebuilt my research process around three AI tools. The result: deeper reading, faster synthesis, and a system I've actually kept.
Jun 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Retrieval-augmented generation sounds intimidating. It's actually four understandable steps. A plain-English walkthrough of building a system that lets an AI answer questions from your own documents.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Prompt engineering was supposed to be the job of the future. Two years later, models barely need it — and the skill that actually matters now is much older and much harder to fake.
May 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Open-weight models matched last year's frontier on most benchmarks this quarter, and the download numbers tell an even bigger story. A look at what's driving the surge — and what it means for the closed labs.
May 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Benchmarks lie. So we ran five leading AI coding assistants through two weeks of actual development work — features, bug hunts, refactors, and reviews — and ranked what matters: shipped code.
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