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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…

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

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.

How I went from writing every line of code to orchestrating AI agents — and why the biggest tech revolution is happening so quietly that almost nobody sees.

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…

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…

Ahoy, software-slinging mateys! There’s a lot of foam on the water right now. AI is remaking how software gets built, and our whole industry is metabolizing the change in public. Maintainers are…

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…

The other day, I was working on translating data from a file into json to visualize the results. Easy enough, given that this was an operation I’d done countless times in the past. Still, I blanked.…

TL;DR: I set out to spend an afternoon understanding OpenClaw. A week later I'd built my own agent with 80+ tools, a web UI, and self-reflection. Here's how that happened.

TL;DR: I built a skill to hook OpenClaw up to Tabstack - and it seems like a pretty great upgrade to the web fetch tool it comes with out of the box. Oh yeah, and OpenClaw is not nearly as scary as…

Dave Rupert puts words to the feeling in the air: the unspoken promise of AI is that you can automate away all the tasks and people who stand in your way. Sometimes I feel like there’s a palpable…

AI code review in CI/CD without prompt injection. Defensive patterns: three security tiers, isolated execution, no secrets in prompts.

"AI isn't lightening workloads," The Wall Street Journal reported last week. "It's making them more intense."Well, yes. This is, in fact, how "workload" works…

The 25th weeknote is a bit short and uneventful. No real reason other than I’m just in a bit of a creative funk for the moment and wading through some general Life Overwhelm (which I feel like…

A research study counted how often ChatGPT made up citations for three different categories of mental disorders (binge eating, body dysmorphic, and major depressive). They used a chi-square to…

I have always seen the computer as a tool that gives us new ways to think. Does it still? As I write this, Hack, the text-based dungeon crawler from my childhood, has just been fully ported to…

The most powerful way to use AI is as a collaborative mind you design intentional systems around starting with a clear sense of what you're optimizing for. The post 10 tips for using Claude Cowork…

The Federal AI Policy Framework has been released. Well, it is a four page outline. Mostly it just reiterates existing such outlines. But that is four more pages than we had previously. It includes…

With Passover fast approaching, I've been putting AI to use in my Seder prep. Specifically, I've been using it to discover and unpack different topics of conversation I could explore with my guests.…

Most people first see this Andrej's Autoresearch project as an ML autotuning setup: an agent edits one file ( train.py ), runs short experiments, and keeps only measurable improvements. Under the…

In the instructions for the final essay in a module i took last year, i was warned that the essays would be checked for ai plagiarism and that we should take the initiative to run our own essays…

TL;DR: The future of SaaS is agentic, but agentic SaaS is not just a chatbot layered on top of APIs and a dashboard. Traditional SaaS was built for users to operate software manually; agentic SaaS…

Quick Brief Featured story today: “Ooh, new drama just dropped 👀” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Markus Kammermann on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince just predicted that AI bot traffic will exceed human traffic online by 2027. His company powers approximately 20% of all websites and is used by approximately 80% of…

Sometimes it feels like governments are actively trying to make everything worse. “Affordable” healthcare that no one can afford. AI regulations designed to ensure 450 million Europeans…

Get AI-Ready With Erik: Retrieval Augmented Generation Summary In this video, I delve into Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and its application in SQL Server databases, particularly focusing on…

I have a reputation as an AI apologist. I doubt this post will change anyone’s mind. But I have to address the recent news that Hachette canceled the US release of a book called Shy Girl and…

The fastest GPU is only as fast as the slowest packet. For years, data center design has been driven by compute density, virtualization efficiency, and east-west traffic patterns dominated by many…

I have just attended the conference mentioned in the title of this post. My general impression is that mathematics as I understand it is being more and more excluded by on the one hand masses of data…

If you only listen to spokespersons for AI companies, you'll have a skewed view of how AI is actually being integrated into the workplace. You probably don't need to convince a developer to include…

Everyone says "we can use AI for that." But reliable, repeatable AI requires infrastructure. Here's why developers need to build the kitchen, not just hire the cook.

AI writes code faster than any developer. But who sets the task, reviews the result, and owns the architecture? On why foundational knowledge matters more now, not less.

For the past year I have been teaching technical teams a five-step system for getting better results from AI. I call it the Prompt Cycle. Teams that adopt it see immediate improvement because they…

Amazona and Meta face AI security crisis, OpenAI acquires Astral for Python development, quantum computers get $5M healthcare challenge, and Pentagon plans classified AI training environments.

You're not too late for AI. This encouraging read reframes the AI boom, helps you overcome hesitation, and invites you to start exploring today.

Yesterday morning, first thing after waking up, I checked my emails. One of them was from a client - a sharp person, but not a tech expert - forwarding a message from one of their "digital…

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” – Gauss (letter to Bolyai, 1808) Give an AI Agent a…

I’ve had Mark’s email sitting in my inbox all week and I just keep on reading this. I’m posting it here so I can keep on coming back to it in the future: Hot take: AI is going to be better at helping…