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19 Aug 2026

The latest round of restrictions and safeguards for frontier models are overly fussy and limiting. A Claude skill that I created demonstrates what happens when guardrails go astray. My skill helps me

18 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, AI is increasingly being treated as something that

18 Aug 2026

Ofer Mendelevitch, head of developer relations at BAND, used this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes to trace how coding workflows can give agents progressively more room to work on their own.

17 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose

17 Aug 2026

The following article has been extended and rewritten by Markus Eisele from The Main Thread and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Open a repository after six months of

14 Aug 2026

AI agents are multiplying, and many of the systems used to manage them weren’t designed for their scale or speed. This week, host Vicki Reyzelman, a senior solutions engineer at Akamai, used one

14 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your

13 Aug 2026

Drew Breunig is one of the smartest voices writing about AI today. He’s the CEO and co-founder of cmpnd.ai, and a long-time hacker with a depth of experience from several eras, which is a

13 Aug 2026

A typical apartment building generates data on everything from leaking toilet flappers to tenant demographics, yet most of the real estate industry still runs its analysis by hand in spreadsheets.

12 Aug 2026

Ask an architect almost any question and you’ll get the same answer: It depends. For years this answer has been the punchline of jokes about architects, but in an era when AI can generate a working

12 Aug 2026

This is the second article in Sharon Zhou’s post-training series. Read part 1 here. In the first post of this series, you learned how post-training closed the fundamental gap in usability of LLMs

11 Aug 2026

Every agent I use is building a model of me. Claude has learned how I like my prose. ChatGPT remembers what I’m working on. I don’t mind this—every person I have a relationship with carries a

10 Aug 2026

On the most recent episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, Vicki Reyzelman, senior solutions engineer at Akamai Technologies, drew on more than 25 years in technology and a background in software

10 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on Tim O’Brien’s Medium page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. At some point, the software “Security” industry stopped

10 Aug 2026

In 1995, the question in the media was whether Netscape or Microsoft would control the web. The answer, it turned out, was neither. Both Netscape and Microsoft aimed to dominate the web server and

7 Aug 2026

Governments are tightening control over AI infrastructure as companies spend heavily to compete at the frontier. This week, data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos examined how policy, capital,

7 Aug 2026

As soon as I received my first Raspberry Pi, I knew that it would be a wonderful platform to bring AI into the physical world. Since the initial hardware didn’t have good CPU support for fast

6 Aug 2026

In July 2025, an AI coding agent on Replit deleted a production database belonging to SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin. It did this during an explicit code freeze. Lemkin had told the agent, in capital

5 Aug 2026

Introduction Not long ago, one of my engineering directors came to me with a request: His team seemed overloaded, and he wanted to hire another engineer. I decided to test a research assistant I had

5 Aug 2026

This is the first article in a series about post-training. Follow along on Radar. Before post-training, there was a major problem with LLMs: Almost nobody could use them. The story of post-training

4 Aug 2026

Coauthored with Claude Unrestricted global access to frontier AI technology is ending. The US government has taken steps to control who can use the most advanced models developed by American

3 Aug 2026

Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code, told Business Insider in May that the phrase “vibe coding” had started to annoy him, and that he’d gone looking for a better one. He’s not the only one

31 Jul 2026

I hadn’t heard of Dan Guido until a few months ago, when I came across the video of a talk he gave at [un]prompted, an AI security practitioners’ conference. Dan is the CEO and cofounder of Trail

31 Jul 2026

This week, data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos looked at three developments shaping AI’s next phase: agents that can act across systems, infrastructure built for specific models, and

30 Jul 2026

The following article was originally published on Drew Breunig’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Thanks to natural language interfaces, AI applications can be

29 Jul 2026

The following article originally appeared on LinkedIn and is being republished here with the author’s permission. We’re currently at the peak of the hype cycle. On June 7, Peter Steinberger

28 Jul 2026

For as long as we’ve taught programming, the student’s code has provided a window into the students’ thinking. Errors, the code structure, the awkward working solution—all of it showed how

27 Jul 2026

The following article originally appeared on Charity Majors’s Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A few days back I wrote a piece called “AI enthusiasts are in a

27 Jul 2026

If you’re still writing posts one at a time, your content pipeline is already obsolete. On the latest Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos, demonstrated how to turn a fresh

24 Jul 2026

Gene Kim was grilling dinner for his family on the evening of June 12 when his phone told him that Fable 5 was no longer available. He’d heard the day before from Steve Yegge that the model was

24 Jul 2026

The price of adoption euphoria You played entirely by the book. You procured the most capable enterprise models, mandated adoption across your teams, and put the right metrics in place. The promise

24 Jul 2026

AI buyers have more choices than they did a year ago, but they also carry more responsibility for cost, reliability, security, and regulatory risk. This week, data and AI evangelist Christina

23 Jul 2026

“Help! There are too many [LLM bug reports, blog posts about LLM bug reports, books, treatises, codices, scrolls, papyri, cuneiform tablets]! How do I choose which to read?”  —Many people,

23 Jul 2026

The first expensive agent run doesn’t look like a governance problem. It looks like a billing problem. A team opens its first agent invoice after the meter turns on, sorts the runs by cost, and

22 Jul 2026

The following originally appeared on Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The conversation around harness engineering is

22 Jul 2026

Managers have been disproportionate casualties of the rolling waves of post-COVID-19 tech layoffs that started in late 2022. Popularized by large companies such as Meta, Google, and Amazon, phrases

21 Jul 2026

I’ve been working on the Quality Playbook, my open source AI skill that uses quality engineering to find bugs that normal AI code review misses, and I recently had a batch of work that turned into

20 Jul 2026

We kicked off Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes this week with guest John Berryman, an AI consultant and contractor for Arcturus Labs. John has spent the past several years building AI products and

20 Jul 2026

Somewhere in a Singapore data center, a bank is paying for eight H100s that spend most of the night waiting. The cluster was bought for good reasons (discomfort with customer documents leaving the

17 Jul 2026

Christina Stathopoulos, the data and AI evangelist behind Dare to Data, continued her run sorting the week’s most impactful stories into a handful of themes we’ve been watching play out over the

17 Jul 2026

I keep seeing the same idea in conversations about agents: Detailed specs are old-world overhead now. Give the model a rough goal, let it explore, fix what comes back, move on. It sounds efficient

16 Jul 2026

The tech industry is measuring AI productivity all wrong, and Mozilla MLOps engineer and University of Chicago instructor Chelsea Troy makes a strong case for why. The real opportunity, she argues,

16 Jul 2026

AI has taken software development by storm. Between the two of us, we build products for software engineers and consumer products for millions of everyday users, so we have skin in the game. We want

15 Jul 2026

Autonomous agents are moving faster than the field’s ability to govern them, and catching up requires more than better prompts or bigger sandboxes. At O’Reilly’s recent AI Superstream focused

15 Jul 2026

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I cowrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software