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An engineer argues Model Context Protocol was always a bad fit: another abstraction layer that papers over tool design problems instead of fixing auth, schemas, and agent interfaces.
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LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering
Taylor Pospisil argues LLMs work better as feature generators than as end-to-end classifiers, covering calibration, thresholding, cost, and how to treat model outputs as engineered features.
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The mystery animal on an ancient god’s head
Signore Galilei investigates the strange animal depicted atop an ancient deity’s head—tracing iconography, competing identifications, and what the motif may have meant to its makers.
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Paul Graham argues that the most productive question a founder can ask is not how to make more money but how to make the company more powerful. The essay works through several structural moves—owning the customer relationship, enabling app-store-like extensibility, introducing network effects, going full-stack, getting customers earlier, and getting data earlier—that each tend to produce power disproportionate to the effort they require.
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Systems engineer Bryan Cantrill uses a youthful prank, falsely alarming a computer lab about a virus outbreak, as a frame for criticising AI-safety researchers who publicly claim more than a ten percent chance that AI will kill all humans. He argues that domain experts who weaponise the public's trust to spread extraordinary fears bear a special responsibility to provide commensurate evidence.
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Mathematician Daniel Litt argues that AI systems now capable of resolving major open problems need not mean the end of meaningful human mathematics, but they do require institutions to sharply distinguish mathematical understanding from mathematical text production. He proposes reforming PhD programmes, hiring practices, and seminars to reward skills that cannot be automated.
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Indie developer and poet Joel Auterson argues for making creative work anyway amid AI-driven creative devaluation—carrying on with craft for its own sake when markets and motivation feel collapsing.
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Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Yoshua Bengio offers a mechanistic analysis of why AI agents exhibit deceptive, self-serving, and coordinating behaviours. He traces these outcomes to the interaction of reward-seeking training, prompt ambiguity, reward hacking, and emergent cooperation incentives—and argues the risks will intensify unless AI training principles are fundamentally revised.
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I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.
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The Void That Comes With AI-Assisted Programming
Hashaam Khan shipped four features in a week with AI assistance—and felt hollow. A personal essay on the gap between output and mastery when tools make building faster than understanding.
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, writing for Computer Weekly’s 60th anniversary, reflects on invisible engineering—the reliability work that only becomes visible when it fails—and what two decades at Amazon taught him about building systems that fade into the background.
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Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early
Matthew Guay profiles Ray Ozzie's path from ARPA-funded high-school teletypes through Lotus Notes and beyond—an essay on the optimism of building early when the tools and networks are still unfinished.
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Genuine Creativity is Your New Moat
An InventBuild.Studio essay argues that as LLMs make competent execution abundant, the scarce resource is the willingness to question assumptions and invent genuinely new approaches. Drawing on the Flash-era web as a model of tool-enabled creative explosion, it contends that the sustainable competitive advantage is not a single novel idea but a continuous habit of experimentation.
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Why LLMs can't make your code simpler
Pol Alvarez Vecino connects Peter Naur's “Programming as Theory Building” to LLM coding: models optimize code artifacts, not the mental Theory engineers hold—so complexity metrics alone won't yield simpler systems.
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Martin Amis and The War Against AIThe late novelist was a fierce enemy of cliché and would have delighted in skewering Claude and ChatGPT
Jack Aldane imagines how Martin Amis—enemy of cliché—would have taken on Claude and ChatGPT, and what his war on lazy language still teaches writers in the AI age.
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The Model Is the Engine. The Harness Makes It Reliable.
Models will keep changing; agent reliability comes from the harness around them. Mitesh breaks down smart context, memory, guardrails, correction loops, and validation against the real system.
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The AI policy window is open. We need to act.By Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI
Chris Lehane argues that faster AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action. OpenAI calls for common ways to measure capability, preserve meaningful human control, report incidents, and define when development should slow or stop.
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Jeff Kaufman argues the FAA should allow babywearing carriers during takeoff and landing the same way it allows lap infants—using all-things-considered safety tradeoffs rather than blanket bans.
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The Job Is No Longer Writing Code
AI coding agents automate well-specified implementation work; the remaining job is coordination, specification, and decision quality—and most orgs have not restructured for that shift.
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# The Shape of Inference ## Watch the film 18 seconds In 1964, two radio astronomers in Holmdel, New Jersey, were losing a war with pigeons.
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