xAI Just Shipped Something Developers Should Actually Pay Attention To The Grok Build Plugin Marketplace launched in beta this week, and I think it’s one of the more interesting developer moves in the current AI tooling race. Not because of the name, not because of the hype, but because of what the integration list actually…
The Wrong Question About AI Agents Most developers I talk to are still asking “which model should I use?” It’s the wrong starting point. The model is almost irrelevant if the system around it is broken. I’ve watched teams spend weeks benchmarking GPT-4o against Claude 3.7 against Gemini, then hand the winner a vague task…
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….
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….
GPT-5.5 and the Death of the Interface Layer OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5 today, and most of the coverage will focus on benchmarks, pricing, and whether it beats Claude on some coding eval. That’s fine. But there’s a sentence in the announcement that I think deserves more attention than it’s going to get. OpenAI’s official description: GPT-5.5…
The Real Skill Gap in AI Engineering (And It’s Not Prompting) Everyone is learning to prompt. Courses, threads, workshops, a 24-minute video from Anthropic’s applied AI team promising to teach you “the 6 elements” you’ve been missing. The tutorials are multiplying faster than anyone can watch them. And I think most of them are solving…
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 Overnight Engineer There’s a pattern showing up in OpenAI’s Codex usage data that I think deserves more attention than it’s getting. Developers are queuing up their hardest tasks at the end of the workday and letting Codex run through them overnight. Refactors. Architecture planning. The stuff that has lived on backlogs for months because…
Claude Just Sat Down at Your Desk Monday, Anthropic shipped something that I think most people are processing too slowly. Claude can now control your computer. Mouse. Keyboard. Screen. Any app. Not through an API connector, not through a plugin, not through some fragile browser extension that breaks when a website updates its CSS. Claude…
