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A 100-page survey argues that code is no longer just what agents produce. It is becoming the executable, inspectable, stateful infrastructure they live inside. There is a slightly ridiculous fantasy in AI right now. It g

I was at AI Week in Milan , and after two large conferences in a row I can confirm something important: this is a hobby for the clinically overcommitted. The venue had the correct modern AI-conference atmosphere: purple

Bjarne Stroustrup is right to worry about vibe coding. The problem is not that AI writes code. The problem is that it lets people create technical debt at industrial speed. Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, recently

Well, this was always going to happen. A short story called The Serpent in the Grove  by Jamir Nazir won the Caribbean regional prize in the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize  and was published by Granta , one of tho

A Princeton-led paper shows how to train VLM agents for 100+ turn decision-making without using another giant model as the critic. The trick is almost rude in its simplicity: let the big model act, and let a tiny CNN jud

There was a time when using the internet meant blocking the phone line. This sounds medieval now, like heating soup over a candle or navigating by bird migration. But it was not that long ago. You wanted to go online, so

For the past two days, parts of Reddit and X have been treated to a small cultural exchange. Americans are staring at their Claude and OpenAI bills, wondering whether they can afford another round of agentic enthusiasm b

Karpathy’s latest conversation makes the shift obvious: AI is no longer just helping people write code. It is changing what software work…

Y Combinator has published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups, and the signal is fairly clear: the “AI as a feature” phase is over. YC says this directly enough. AI has stopped being a feature and started becoming the

Speculative decoding was already clever. DFlash makes the draft stage parallel, turning diffusion from a clumsy text generator into a very useful accelerator. Large language models have a very expensive habit. They think

Ed Zitron asked a useful question for once. His conclusion is too theatrical, but the mystery is real: Microsoft’s AI buildout is much…

There are moments in the art world when something quietly moves from “interesting niche” to “everyone in a black jacket is suddenly pretending they always cared.” Digital art appears to be having one of those moments. Ar

I spent some time torturing a scientific-paper search agent, then handed the gathered context to GPT-5.5 Pro with a simple question: Why does music work on us? The answer , after stripping away the neuroscience upholster

For a while, I thought moving more of my work into Cursor, ChatGPT, and other AI tools was pure progress. The logic seemed obvious. If a tool makes me ten times faster, then surely I am growing. A charming thought. Also

There is a particular modern fantasy that if we simply collect enough data, correlate it hard enough, and feed it into enough machinery, meaning will eventually emerge, wearing a clean shirt and carrying a dashboard. Thi

There is a new player in AI, and it has arrived with the usual Silicon Valley manners: by loudly implying that everyone else has been doing the expensive thing. The company is Subquadratic . The model is SubQ . The pitch

For a long time, the safe thing to say about AI in mathematics was that it was useful for toy problems, olympiad tricks, and producing confident nonsense in LaTeX. A pleasingly comfortable view. Also increasingly obsolet

There is a particularly noble kind of software project that does not try to raise a seed round, reinvent productivity, or explain why your calendar needs a blockchain. It simply shows you something. A magnetic field. A p

Every company now wants to be AI-native. This is understandable. Nobody wants to be the last firm in the industry still forwarding PDFs around while a competitor has 400 agents doing market research, customer support ana

The more I invest, the less I believe in investing in ideas. This sounds rude, because the startup world is largely built around people saying things like “massive market,” “unique insight,” “category-defining product,”

Remember when people worried that an AI-written resume might get them rejected? That was a charmingly innocent time. The fear went like this: you ask ChatGPT to polish your CV, the company’s applicant tracking system det

I like medical dramas. Not because they are realistic, obviously. They are mostly soap operas with stethoscopes. Someone runs down a corridor. Someone shouts “we’re losing him.” Someone else has a complicated personal li

There is a hidden tax inside AI. Not the glamorous kind involving governments, lobbyists, and a 900-page PDF nobody reads. This one is quieter, stranger, and built directly into the machinery. It is the tax you pay for n