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…
10x Faster Agent Containers: What OpenAI’s Container Pooling Really Signals If you’ve spent any real time building agentic workflows, you already know that the bottleneck usually isn’t the model. It’s the plumbing. Cold starts, spinning infrastructure, waiting for a container to come up before your agent can even begin executing a tool call. OpenAI just…
The Discipline Nobody Talks About When Building AI Agents There is a specific kind of technical debt that only shows up in agent systems, and it doesn’t announce itself. It accumulates quietly, one reasonable decision at a time, until the day you’re staring at a system diagram that looks like a subway map and realizing…
Andrej Karpathy Just Described a Phase Shift. Most Engineers Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next. If you follow AI at all, you probably saw Andrej Karpathy’s appearance on the No Priors podcast this week with Sarah Guo. If you haven’t listened to it yet, you should. Not because it covers new product announcements or benchmark…
40.9K Stars and a “Junior Engineer With Poor Taste” — What the Superpowers Repo Is Really Telling Us A GitHub repository called Superpowers just crossed 40.9K stars, and I think it’s one of the more honest signals we’ve gotten about where AI coding agents actually stand right now. Not from a benchmark. Not from a…
