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The Placeholder Is DeadAn honest estimate beats fake precision
VEXIS shipped a pricing tool that literally labeled unfinished rates as placeholders, then replaced them with negotiated card rates—and caught a stale summary label the green tests missed.
2 min · 444 words
Inside the Tiny Unfixable Eye: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Teardown
iFixit’s teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max covers the new variable aperture camera, battery tray, cooling, and the repair tradeoffs—including plastic frames that tore on multiple units.
12 min · 2,777 words
Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy
Clay engineer Sophie Alpert explains the company-wide AI writing policy: stand behind every sentence, treat writing as thinking, respect readers' time, and reject padded AI slop.
4 min · 993 words