The Real Reason Your AI System Is Broken (It’s Not the Model) Every week I watch engineers spend hours debating which model to use. GPT-4o versus Claude 3.5 versus Gemini 1.5 Pro. Benchmark comparisons, pricing calculators, latency tests. It’s not that those things don’t matter. They do, at the margins. But in my experience shipping…
Gemini 2.5 Pro Just Changed What “Usable Context” Means The AI coding race has a new front-runner, at least this week, and it’s worth paying attention to why. Google shipped Gemini 2.5 Pro recently, and the benchmark numbers are genuinely hard to dismiss. It’s sitting at the top of the LMSys leaderboard for coding tasks,…
Google just shipped Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the benchmark numbers are hard to ignore. It’s sitting at the top of the LMSys leaderboard for coding tasks, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet on several software engineering benchmarks. On SWE-bench Verified, it’s hitting numbers that weren’t realistic from any model twelve months ago. But here’s what…
Plausible Is Not the Same as Correct There is a distinction circulating in engineering circles right now that I think deserves more attention than it’s getting. It comes from a piece by @KatanaLarp that’s been making rounds on X, and the framing is sharp enough that I want to expand on it here. LLMs don’t…
Google just shipped Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the benchmark numbers are hard to ignore. It’s sitting at the top of the LMSys leaderboard for coding tasks, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet on several software engineering benchmarks. On SWE-bench Verified, it’s hitting numbers that weren’t realistic from any model twelve months ago. But here’s what…
Career-Ops: The Engineer Who Turned Job Hunting Into a Systems Problem Most people treat a layoff like a weather event. Something that happens to you, that you wait out. You polish the resume, open LinkedIn, and start clicking Apply on anything that looks plausible. Three months later you’ve sent out 200 applications and heard back…
Netflix VOID: Object Removal Was the Easy Part Every few months a video AI tool drops that makes editors collectively exhale. Netflix’s VOID is one of those tools. But it’s not doing what you think it’s doing, or rather, it’s not stopping where most tools stop. The headline is object removal from video. Point at…
AI agents forget everything. Every session, every time, no matter how capable the model. That’s not a model problem. It’s an architecture problem, and most people are solving it with the wrong tool. I’ve been wiring Microsoft GraphRAG into my OpenClaw agent as a persistent memory layer, and the difference in how the agent actually…
I gave my AI assistant a memory. Here’s what it knew about me. For months, my AI assistant woke up every session with no idea what we’d done the day before. I’d ask about a project we’d built together and get a polite “I’m not sure what you’re referring to.” We’d spent hours on it….
The New Yorker Just Asked the Question Nobody Inside OpenAI Would Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months on a single story. They reviewed more than 200 pages of internal documents, including private memos from people who worked directly with Sam Altman, and interviewed over 100 sources. The result landed in The New Yorker…
