OpenClaw is one of the fastest-growing open source projects right now. It hooks LLMs up to your computer — email, calendar, Plex, whatever — and lets you chat with the agent on Telegram. YOLO mode.…

Why craft-lovers are losing their craft Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…

Welcome ClaudeClaw to the Claw family! Claude is a bit shy and doesn’t want to show its source code. But it’s OK, we love Claude that way :)

The 66th MPAI General Assembly (MPAI-66) has approved the publication of the “MPAI as a Service” Call for Technologies. To get a proper understanding of the positioning of this new standard in the…

The widely-referenced “stochastic parrots” paper from five years ago is no out of date. In it, Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. argue that LLMs remix patterns in text without genuine…

Decompiling Poshan Tracker app to inspect its face verification functionality A Decode investigation reported that “AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India” on March 19.…

In this podcast, I chat with two professors — Nupoor Ranade (Carnegie Mellon) and Jeremy Merritt (James Madison University) — about how AI is reshaping the technical writing profession…

Part of the methodology series. Builds on Blind, Blind, Merge. One prompt to Claude Code with codex CLI: Problem description is in PROBLEM.md, code is in src/. Volley with codex to a spec, then…

Part of the cognition series. Builds on Ambient Category. I have a half-baked theorem and no credentials. I’m a software engineer who happens to be an early adopter of AI-assisted search tools. The…

In this instalment of “One Paper a Week”, we’re looking at Waveformer, a neural network for extracting specific waveforms from a sound mix in real-time. If you’re thinking…

If I had to describe this edition of Office Hours I would first say that it was a wide-ranging conversation about the evolving landscape of consumer surveillance, sparked by the introduction of…

I worry that the tech world is losing sight of what AI is and I think a lot of this stems from the moniker "AI" that's been successfully (especially when you consider the marketing) applied to LLMs.…

Finding My Voice For … reasons, I fed Claude a bunch of my Internet posting history. In retrospect, much of the worst of it Metafilter comments (not so bad) Reddit archive…

This article captures an important moment in Pipulate's development: achieving a truly self-announcing, cross-platform installation. It's incredibly satisfying to see the `curl | bash` command…

Wow, what a wild year it’s been! Claude Code was first released only a year ago , though it feels like it might have been a decade. The progress on LLM developer tooling has been unreal, and it…

Number 1: The ORAC Computer I will start with what I think is going to be the easiest, an AI Computer, that can interact with voice, gestures and understands every nuance of interacting with a human.…

An ABC News (the Australian one) investigation has shown how good the deepfakes are, usually right-wing-supporting content to fool the public. Matt Martino shared this link on Linkedin, to a story…

Amazon fired 1,800+ engineers while forcing staff onto its Kiro AI tool. Here's why that's a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen — and what it means for every developer.

It got worse. But the full story is more interesting than that. The Setup I have two projects that collided. Thunderdome is an agentic SWE benchmark I built that tests models on real multi-file…

Programming languages were made for humans, but now AI writes a lot of code, so we could design a language just for AI. This language would focus on strict rules and clarity, prioritizing correctness…

A case for using AI to train, not just to go faster.

Roden Readers — Hello! It’s me, Craig Mod. Author of TBOT (amzn | bkshp). Poking my head out into newsletter land. This? Roden, a newsletter you signed up for at some point. Perhaps last week,…

[This post is AI level 1: Human asked chatbot for ideas. Claude Opus was used primarily for review and ideation and I took some of its advice and a few (very few) of its words.] Like many open source…

The infrastructure that determines what your agent can actually learn - Model architecture gets all the attention. Post-training recipes follow close behind. The training environment — what the model…

I saw a post recently wherein someone used LLM tools to analyze someone else’s software, which eventually led them to a conclusion that was essentially completely wrong. Not only that, the LLM drew…

If you are building agents in 2026, prompt engineering is still necessary, but it is no longer sufficient. The teams shipping reliable agents are working across three different layers: Prompt…

Still mulling over the Block layoffs, and one thing that caught my eye was how many folks who were let go were there for easily 6, 8, even 10 years or more. People who gave literally a decade of…

This is an early draft I’m sharing for feedback. Hit me with your thoughts! Last updated: 2026-03-22 ~5:15pm CT.

Love it or hate it, everyone is talking about AI all the time. It's so boring. It's worse than talking about global warming or US politics or anything else, because AI, as a topic, has all the…

How I used AI-assisted investigation to triage the trivy-action supply chain attack across my homelab repos — and some thoughts on weekend incident response and community notification gaps.

The most expensive dice in history and they won't let us roll them.

A working playbook for pricing and selling agents as a service in a post-SaaS world.

My AI publishing pipeline got a book flagged on Amazon. Here's how I added content risk assessment and why every agentic workflow needs quality gates.

Turns out, partially - this is helpful

Debate about whether the explosion of datacenter buildout will prove to be a worthwhile investment centers on two scenarios:

LLMs are exoskeletons. They amplify what you already have. The problem: people are using them as a replacement for building anything at all. No friction, no learning, no muscle — just confident…

The biggest risk in AI adoption isn’t moving too slowly. It’s mandating too hard, watching it backfire, and oscillating between full commitment and full retreat. The organizations that…

AI has made it absurdly easy to generate software-like artifacts. But, that is not the same as generating value. Daily we are flooded with shallow POCs, demos and agent integrations that solve…

AI is creating a genuine dichotomy: teams drowning in AI-supercharged chaos, others are thriving. The difference is in the approach to transformation.

Once you get past the basics with agents, context pollution and context rot start showing up. This ten-panel visual guide explains why subagents help.

I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from “Random Thought” to “Working…

Glóð.ai , one of the two EU-cofunded projects in which my colleague Anna Liebe l is involved, is opening a number of research opportunities in the area of AI and HPC. What follows is largely a…

It’s said that AI will bring about the era of taste as a differentiator. When production is fully democratised, anybody can generate what they envision without a huge team to support them, the…

guest post by William Waites The previous post introduced the plumbing calculus: typed channels, structural morphisms, two forms of composition, and agents as stateful morphisms with a protocol for…

What would happen if AI became my native language teacher — not translating words, but explaining them through context, images, and exposure, the way a child learns from a parent? That question…

Everyone is talking about a Saaspocalypse - the end of SaaS as AI takes over software development. Is that real or just hype? Here is what I actually think is happening.In the pre-AI-coding days,…

Last week, I was doing regular maintenance tasks on my home file server, a Synology running its own Linux-style OS. I tend to put off updates for weeks because sometimes things break after upgrades…

The Agent Skills spec claims to be "A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise." But the creator of Agent Skills, Anthropic, is also the company behind the…

Having spent some time with Grokipedia back in October of last year and written it up, I went back earlier today and took another look. It’s now V0.2. More significantly, it now has 6,092,140…