Anthropic Just Released a Free Prompting Workshop. Pay Attention. Most prompting advice you find online was written by people who poked at a model until something worked, then published it. Some of that advice is genuinely useful. A lot of it is pattern-matching dressed up as insight. When Anthropic’s own team releases a 24-minute workshop…
The Politeness Problem: When Self-Driving Cars Are Too Correct Something quietly embarrassing happened at a San Francisco intersection recently, and I think it exposes a flaw in how the entire autonomous vehicle industry thinks about the problem it’s solving. Several robotaxis arrived at the same intersection and got stuck. Not because of sensor failures. Not…
The Black Box Problem: Why LLM Internals Should Change How You Build Most engineers treating LLMs like black boxes are building on sand. That sounds harsh, but I’ve watched it happen enough times to say it plainly. The system works, demos great, ships to production, and then fails in ways that feel random but absolutely…
Cybercab Is in Production. Here’s Why That’s an AI Story, Not a Car Story. Elon posted it Friday morning. No press release, no event, no staged reveal. Just a short video and four words: “Cybercab has started production.” That’s it. After years of concept renders and prototype teases, the thing is actually being built. I’ve…
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…
China Just Bet $8.4 Billion That the Future of AI Compute Is in Orbit Most of the AI compute conversation right now is about H100 allocations, inference costs per token, and who has the largest training cluster. That’s a real fight. But China just signaled that it’s also playing a completely different game, one that…
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…
Mark Cuban Said Something Last Week That I Can’t Stop Thinking About He was talking about the end of SaaS. Not the slow decline, not the “SaaS headwinds” kind of language you see in VC memos. He meant the actual death of the model. And the argument he made is one of the clearest things…
Context Windows Are Not Scratch Pads Most engineers I talk to treat a 200K token context window like a gift. More space means more context, more context means better results, better results mean ship it. That logic feels intuitive. It is also how you end up with a production agent that confidently contradicts its own…
Anthropic Just Shipped a Design Tool, and the Quiet Implication Is Louder Than the Announcement If you blinked on April 17th you probably missed it. Anthropic posted a short video to X, the Claude account dropped a few sentences, and that was more or less the launch of Claude Design. No keynote, no sprawling blog…
