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What We Can Learn from Claude's Fable 5.1 System Prompt,2026
Who Taught the Models to Do That?,2026
Fable & The End of the Free Lunch,2026
Harnesses are Situated Agents,2026
Manage Your Agent's Loadout with Dr. Skill,2026
Understanding the Dynamics of the AI Ecosystem with Pace Layers,2026
The Problem is Prompt Debt,2026
What Do Humans Need From Docs?,2026
The Cost of Overfitting the Harness,2026
10 Lessons for Agentic Coding,2026
Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now,2026
How Claude Code Builds a System Prompt,2026
The 2nd Phase of Agentic Development,2026
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House,2026
Learnings from a No-Code Library: Keeping the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync,2026
We're Talking About Terms of Use, But the Issue is Embedded Judgment,2026
Two Beliefs About Coding Agents,2026
Why is Claude an Electron App?,2026
How System Prompts Define Agent Behavior,2026
The Potential of RLMs,2026
The Rise of Spec Driven Development,2026
A Software Library with No Code,2026
2025 in Review: Jagged Intelligence Becomes a Fault Line,2025
Why I Write (And You Should Too!),2025
How Model Use Has Changed in 2025,2025
Enterprise Agents Have a Reliability Problem,2025
Don't Fight the Weights,2025
Glimpses of the Future: Speed & Swarms,2025
Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright,2025
AI Companies School Like Fish,2025
Can Chatbots Accomodate Advertising?,2025
Building Castles in the Air, but With Surprise Physics,2025
Making Sense of AI Job Titles,2025
Bottleneck or Bisect: AI-Assisted Coding Will Change Product Management,2025
Initial Thoughts on GPT-OSS,2025
FLUX.1-Krea & the Rise of Opinionated Models,2025
Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?,2025
How Kimi K2 RL'ed Qualitative Data to Write Better,2025
How Kimi K2 Became One of the Best Tool-Using Models,2025
How Rewriting Training Data Improved Kimi K2's Performance,2025
A Comedy Writer on How AI Changes Her Field,2025
Why “Context Engineering” Matters,2025
Delegation is the AI Metric that Matters,2025
AI Creates the Problems it Solves,2025
The Prompt Foreman,2025
Cat Facts Cause Context Confusion,2025
How to Fix Your Context,2025
Prompts vs. Context,2025
How Long Contexts Fail,2025
An Agentic Case Study: Playing Pokémon with Gemini,2025
The Drawbridges Go Up,2025
Let the Model Write the Prompt,2025
Claude's System Prompt Changes Reveal Anthropic's Priorities,2025
Using 'Slop Forensics' to Determine Model Ancestry,2025
A Small Model Just for Structured Output,2025
Will the Model Eat Your Stack?,2025
ChatGPT Heard About Eagles Fans,2025
StackOverflow's LLM-Accelerated Decline,2025
Claude's System Prompt: Chatbots Are More Than Just Models,2025
You Got Commands in My Prompt!,2025
DuckDB is Probably the Most Important Geospatial Software of the Last Decade,2025
The Wisdom of Artificial Crowds,2025
What We Mean When We Say “Think”,2025
The Dynamic Between Domain Experts & Developers Has Shifted,2025
AI Chatbots Are Like Observational Comics,2025
MCPs are APIs for LLMs,2025
Overcoming Bad Prompts with Help from LLMs,2025
Building an Easier to Use FFmpeg With LLMs,2025
What if AGI is Free?,2025
A Gentle Intro to Running a Local LLM,2025
DeepSeek as a Power Object,2025
Mistral Small & Human-Centric Benchmarks,2025
Is OpenAI Using Trap Tokens?,2025
On Authentic Data,2025
Your Eval is More Important Than the Model,2025
Beware the Cyren's Song,2025
Generating a Glossary from a Jekyll Blog Using DSPy & Claude,2024
On Test-Time Compute: The New Game in Town,2024
On Synthetic Data: How It's Improving & Shaping LLMs,2024
Pipelines & Prompt Optimization with DSPy,2024
Why LLM Advancements Have Slowed: The Low-Hanging Fruit Has Been Eaten,2024
Turning Your Root URL Into a DuckDB Remote Database,2024
Will Surging Crypto Prices Damper Interest in AI?,2024
Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era,2024
AI Search Apps Succeed Because of Their UI, Not their LLMs,2024
Generating Descriptive Weather Reports with LLMs,2024
The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs,2024
Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File,2024
We Need Help With Content Discovery More Than Content Generation,2024
Conflating Overture Places Using DuckDB, Ollama, Embeddings, and More,2024
What Remains After an AI Collapse?,2024
When is a Minicar as Dangerous as a 3-Ton Truck?,2024
We Need an Ari Emanuel for Small OSS,2024
The Right to Confront Your AI Accuser,2024
Stewart Brand on Finding Where the Future is Being Made,2024
Domain Expertise is the Difference Maker for Data Scientists,2024
How to Build a Bigger Bubble,2024
Towards Standardizing Place,2024
Prompt Engineering at the End of the Universe,2024
Enriching CSVs with H3,2024
Smaller, Cheaper, Faster, Sober,2024
Be Better, Not Smaller,2024
Using DuckDB to Map Overture GERS IDs to US Census FIPs Codes,2024
The Eras of Domain Names,2024
Sober AI is the Norm,2024
A Plea for Sober AI,2024
Introducing StepList,2024
A POI Database in One Line,2024
The Rise of Audio AR,2024
Paying the AI Premium,2024
In Pursuit of Quiet AI Features,2024
Déjà Connu: AI Copilots Reveal Well-Traveled Paths,2023
My CCPA Dialog With OpenAI,2023
A Foundation Model For Every Culture,2023
A Big Year For Small Models,2023
The Tyranny of the Blank Textbox,2023
Extreme Compression with AI: Fitting a 45 Minute Podcast into 40kbs,2023
The AI Market is Firming Up Fast,2023
Finding Bathroom Faucets with Embeddings,2023
Manipulating AI: Prompt Injection, Trap Tokens, & Post-Training Suggestion,2023
Considering AI Privacy Scenarios,2023
The Platypus In The Room,2023
Practical AI For App Makers,2023
AI Lies, Privacy, & OpenAI,2023
We Need AI Safewords,2023
Why Media Metrics Matter,2022
The Gauntlet Growing Social Networks Face Just Got Harder,2020
How to Build a Buzzword,2020
What are We Waiting For?,2020
How the iPhone Led to Today’s Internet Outage,2016
Keeping Up with the Joneses, Today,2016
I Dream of the Post Office Buying Twitter,2016
Spectacles are the Anti-Glass,2016
Do Algorithms Find Depression or Cause Depression?,2016
Apple Shouldn’t Kill the Headphone Jack,2016
A Community Camera Manifesto,2016
The Business Implications of Machine Learning,2016
Motivations Behind Calls for Podcast Data,2016
Discussions We Will Have in 2016,2016
Fake Can Be Just as Good,2015
Ways of Thinking About Products: Starter Kits,2015
What I’ve Learned About the Gold Rush So Far,2015
On Convenience-Tech and Trusting Technology,2014
On Nuclear Weapons and Complex Systems,2014
The State of Technology in 2013: What We Learn from Cameras,2014
The 5 Blows to the Human Ego,2013
Google Glass is Just Like the Segway – and Similarly Doomed,2013
The "Remote President",2013
Habits are Cues for Innovation,2012
Multisignal Tools & Mutable Art,2011
Siri, Violin Vibratto, and Bing Crosby's Croon,2011
The Idea of a Computer is Diffusing,2011
On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to Speak Humanely,2011
Loyal Customer Myopia,2011
On Chat Roulette. Or, Never Judge a New Medium by its Early Adopters,2010
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