Jensen Huang Ate Noodles in a Hutong. That Tells You Everything. There’s a moment from the Trump trade delegation visit to Beijing in May 2026 that I keep coming back to. While diplomats and executives performed the usual theater of geopolitical trade talks, Jensen Huang, the CEO of the company that makes the chips powering…
Jensen Huang Ate Noodles While the Trade War Raged. He Was Right To. There’s a photo circulating from Beijing this week. Jensen Huang, CEO of the world’s most valuable chip company, sitting in a hutong alleyway eating zhajiangmian from a place called Fangzhuan workshop. Not in a conference room. Not on a delegation panel. Not…
The Demo Worked Great. The Deployment Did Not. Every few weeks, a new AI agent demo drops and the timeline lights up. Someone ships a polished video, the agent breezes through a 12-step workflow in 90 seconds, and the replies fill with “this changes everything.” I get it. The demos are genuinely impressive sometimes. Then…
CLAUDE.md Is the Most Underrated File in Your Codebase I’ve spent a lot of time tuning prompts. System prompts, user prompts, few-shot examples, all of it. And I’ll tell you what most of that work produces: marginally better output that degrades the moment the conversation gets long or the task gets complicated. So when something…
Why Your Second Brain Is a Graveyard (And How to Fix It) Most engineers I know have built at least one elaborate knowledge system. Notion workspace with nested databases. An Obsidian vault with backlinks going nowhere. A bookmark folder containing 400 links they will never read again. They spent a weekend setting it up, felt…
Claude in Microsoft 365: Context Persistence Is the Feature That Actually Changes Work Most AI integrations into enterprise software follow a predictable pattern. A model gets bolted onto a sidebar. It answers questions about the document you have open. You close the document, and the AI forgets everything. You start fresh every single time. That’s…
One Guy, One MacBook, $18,800 a Month I have seen a lot of “AI agency” pitches in the past two years. Most of them are courses dressed up as case studies. This one is different. A solo operator, no employees, no office, no sales team, is pulling $18,800 a month selling websites to local businesses….
The 100-Agent Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, said something at a recent Sequoia AI session that stopped me mid-scroll. “100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I run around 100 agents at one time.” He’s an Anthropic engineer reportedly compensated at $750K per year. He…
Anthropic Just Published an Operational Manual for the Agent-First Company I’ve read a lot of AI research papers, product announcements, and thought leadership posts over the past few years. Most of them describe a future. Anthropic’s Claude Code best practices document describes a present. That distinction matters more than people are giving it credit for….
Anthropic and Open Source: Reading Between the Lines on a Very Big Rumor Something is shifting at Anthropic, and the AI community is paying attention. A short video clip circulating on X shows Dario Amodei apparently reacting to a post about open-source AI winning. The original tweet from Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) reads simply: “Contrary to the…
