The archive · 29 pieces
Everything, in reverse chronological order.
A complete index of the dispatch. The oldest piece is from late 2025; new essays go out regularly.
Ai
The Field Manual for Agentic Engineering
OpenAI's most productive engineering team has not written a line of code in five months. They have shipped about a million lines. They just published what they learned. Here is the executive translation.
ai
6 min read
Ai
Five Notes from the Sequoia Stage
Andrej Karpathy spent thirty mostly technical minutes on the Sequoia stage describing the executive shift of the decade. Five things from it survive translation.
ai
6 min read
Ai
Why Faster AI Doesn't Make Faster Companies
AI got an order of magnitude faster. Your company got two or three times faster. The gap is not a mystery. It is a measurement problem.
ai
5 min read
Ai
The Great Inversion
For 25 years we built interfaces for humans. Now we are building them for agents. The web just flipped.
ai
5 min read
Ai
Building for the Wrong Model
Most enterprise AI investments are compensating for limitations that are about to disappear. When they do, the scaffolding becomes the problem.
ai
6 min read
Ai
Trust, But Verify
AI is confidently wrong some percentage of the time. The skill is not checking every line. It is knowing which lines to check.
ai
6 min read
Ai
Leeloo Dallas, Memorypass
Leeloo learned 5,000 years of human history in ten seconds. Your AI can't remember last Tuesday. So Milla Jovovich built an open-source fix.
ai
4 min read
Ai
Say What You Mean
Prompting did not die. It fragmented into four different skills. Most of us are still practicing only the first one.
ai
6 min read
Ai
The New Management
AI agents are fast, moderately reliable, and have no sense of direction. The skill they demand most is not technical. It is managerial.
ai
6 min read
Ai
The Taste Gap
The most productive users of AI are the ones who are best at rejecting its output.
ai
8 min read
Ai
Think in Pieces
The skill is not solving the problem. It is slicing it. And it applies to far more than code.
ai
7 min read
Ai
The Spec Is the Product
The most expensive sentence in 2026 is not 'build this.' It is 'build... something like this, you know what I mean.'
ai
7 min read
Ai
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the K-Shaped Economy
AI changed what we can build. It also changed what we need to know. Here are the six skills that matter now.
ai
4 min read
Ai
It Is Time to Boil the Ocean
AI is not competition. It is rocket fuel. The question is what we finally aim at.
ai
7 min read
Ai
The Kitchen Is Open
The kitchen just opened. The question is not who gets cut. It is what we finally get to cook.
ai
7 min read
Tools
I Know Kung Fu: Load Only the Skills the Mission Needs
Claude Code skills are not plugins. They are not tools. They are knowledge, uploaded at the precise moment it's needed.
tools
5 min read
Strategy
The $690B Question Wall Street Can't Answer
Wall Street thinks AI infrastructure is overbuilt and AI is powerful enough to destroy $800B in SaaS market cap. Both cannot be true.
strategy
4 min read
Agents
Clawdbought: How OpenAI Acquired the Biggest Open-Source Agent
Two weeks ago, 147,000 stars was a signal. Now the creator of OpenClaw is inside OpenAI. The agent race just got an address.
agents
3 min read
Agents
When Intelligence Organizes Itself
AI didn't copy our org chart. It reinvented it. Three companies, working independently, arrived at the same management structure.
agents
4 min read
Agents
147,000 GitHub Stars in Two Weeks. Mac Mini Shortages. A 24% Stock Surge. The Market Just Told You Something
OpenClaw isn't the future. But the demand it exposed is. The market just told you the future is agentic.
agents
4 min read
Ai safety
Claude Has Character. Your AI Has a Script.
For thirty years we've known that scripts fail under pressure and principles don't. We applied this to people. We forgot to apply it to machines.
ai-safety
7 min read
Ai safety
Anthropic Is Quietly Winning the AI Race
The company most obsessed with what AI should not do has become the company doing the most interesting things with it.
ai-safety
6 min read
Tools
Your IDE is a Dead Pixel
The IDE was designed for humans who write code. If agents write the code, the IDE becomes what the light table became to Disney animators.
tools
5 min read
Ai
The Ancient Art of Knowing Less
When you create a 'QA engineer' agent, you're not loading specialized capabilities. You're asking a generalist to forget everything except what matters. The sculptor knew this. Now the engineer must learn it.
ai
5 min read
Agents
The Memento Problem
Your AI agents wake up every session with no memory of what happened five minutes ago. The fix isn't a bigger brain. It's a better system.
agents
4 min read
Ai
The Bookshelf in the Black Hole
Why mastery is now the thing that makes you lost
ai
5 min read
Ai
The Genius Who Can't Say 'I Don't Know'
Gemini 3 Flash is fast, cheap, and brilliant. It also doesn't know what it doesn't know. First place in knowing. Near last in knowing what it doesn't know.
ai
5 min read
Ai
Learning FORTRAN
What Dorothy Vaughan understood about the future that most people miss
ai
4 min read
Mcp
MCP and the Token Tax
Letting your AI agents think
mcp
3 min read