AI

When Skills Aren't Enough
When Skills Aren't Enough

Skills give AI a set of instructions to follow — and instructions can be ignored. This essay maps Anthropic's dynamic workflows against a real writing checklist, tracing six structural gains from determinism to reproducibility.

The Age of Disposable Software
The Age of Disposable Software

AI has made software generation so cheap that an entire category is now born disposable — created for a single context, used once, and discarded when the moment passes.

The Slop Problem
The Slop Problem

AI produces "slop" (statistically average, fluent but hollow writing) not as a model failure but as an insight failure. Genuine originality requires standing at an uncrossed frontier that AI, trained entirely on the past, cannot structurally reach.

Prompt, Context, Harness: The Three Phases of AI Engineering
Prompt, Context, Harness: The Three Phases of AI Engineering

AI engineering has evolved through three compensatory phases (prompt, context, and harness), each addressing a failure the previous layer couldn't fix. Harness Engineering is the governance layer that keeps teams of agents coherent across complex, long-running tasks.

How We Build Software in the Age of AI
How We Build Software in the Age of AI

This essay argues that AI is reshaping software at an architectural level, moving from human-centered applications to a composable agentic ecosystem where CLIs, Skills, and MCP form distinct layers that agents invoke as primary users.

Claude Code and The Rise of CLI
Claude Code and The Rise of CLI

Why did developers abandon polished IDEs for a terminal tool? The answer is less about AI than about Unix: a 50-year-old design philosophy of composable text tools that proves to be the perfect substrate for machine intelligence, and a preview of the AUI paradigm ahead.

The Fork in the Road: Claude Code vs CoWork
The Fork in the Road: Claude Code vs CoWork

Claude Code and CoWork share a codebase but diverge sharply — local vs managed-VM execution shapes resumability, attachability, and autonomy.

Claude Cowork
Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork marks Anthropic's pivot from chatbot to agentic AI: a productized Claude Code that plans, executes, and delegates tasks through sub-agents in a sandboxed Micro-VM environment.

We're Still Pumping Water from Mines: The Path to Superintelligence
We're Still Pumping Water from Mines: The Path to Superintelligence

A historical analogy: today's LLMs are the steam engine of AI — celebrated as revolutionary, yet only half the architecture real superintelligence needs.

Claude Skills, Commands, Agents toward a unified mission
Claude Skills, Commands, Agents toward a unified mission

This article traces the evolution of Claude's Skills, Commands, and Agents, analyzing the fundamental tension between intent-matching intelligence and explicit-command reliability, and arguing that their merger points toward compositional AI behavior.

The Death and Rebirth of AI - lessons from not so distant past
The Death and Rebirth of AI - lessons from not so distant past

The Internet died once in 2000's dot-com crash, then was reborn solving unglamorous infrastructure problems. Today's AI boom mirrors that mania. The Internet's killer app wasn't information; it was social media. AI's likely won't be productivity either.

To Think or not to Think - How "Reasoning" in LLMs Evolved
To Think or not to Think - How "Reasoning" in LLMs Evolved

Reasoning in large language models is an important shift in artificial intelligence: from instant responses to deliberate problem-solving. How does the reasoning work? In what ways can this feature be implemented? What are its current limitations?

Feature of Bug? Toward a Psychology of LLM
Feature of Bug? Toward a Psychology of LLM

Four research papers suggest LLMs have layered internal states — and that 'alignment faking' and unfaithful reasoning are features of intelligence, not bugs.

AI Companionship on the Rise
AI Companionship on the Rise

The most consequential near-term use of voice AI is companionship, not productivity. AI companionship is rapidly emerging as a transformative force, reshaping human relationships by offering emotionally responsive, ever-present, and personalized virtual partners.

Local Intelligence, an Important Step in the Future of  MAD (Mass AI Deployment)
Local Intelligence, an Important Step in the Future of MAD (Mass AI Deployment)

Local Intelligence, an Important Step in the Future of MAD (Mass AI Deployment)

Unboxing AI, Understanding the Magic of Large Language Models
Unboxing AI, Understanding the Magic of Large Language Models

Ever wondered how ChatGPT seems to know so much? Or how AI can write stories, answer questions, and even crack jokes? We're about to lift the curtain on these AI marvels!