The Study Nobody Is Reading Correctly Anthropic just published what they’re calling the largest qualitative study of AI users ever conducted. 81,000 people. One week. And most of the coverage I’ve seen misses the point entirely. Everyone is focused on the number. 81,000 is a big number, so people write about the number. But the…
Google’s AI Ecosystem Is Building the Operating System Nobody Else Can Copy Min Choi said it plainly this week on X: “The next AI war won’t be Claude vs ChatGPT. It’s who will own the entire AI operating system.” I think he’s right. And I think most developers building on these platforms right now are…
The Indispensable Engineer Trap (And Why I Walked Right Into It) For most of my early career, I optimized for the wrong thing. I made myself the person who knew where all the bodies were buried. The one who understood the legacy pipeline no one else had touched in three years. The one you called…
The Hardest Skill in AI Engineering Is Knowing When to Stop I’ve been sitting with a uncomfortable observation for a few months now. We’ve crossed some kind of threshold in AI tooling where the answer to “can an agent do this?” is almost always yes. The models are capable enough, the frameworks are mature enough,…
Microsoft just open sourced BitNet, and I think people are sleeping on how significant this actually is. While most of the AI conversation stays locked on GPU clusters, foundation model releases, and cloud API pricing, something quietly landed that could change the entire equation for how and where large language models actually run. Let me…
Most AI engineers I know are solving the wrong problem. We obsess over model quality. Benchmark scores. Parameter counts. Token speeds. And I get it — these things feel concrete. They are measurable. You can point to a number going up and feel like you made progress. But the actual bottleneck in most production AI…
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…
Karpathy Just Scored Your Job. Software Engineers Got an 8.5. Here’s What That Actually Means. Andrej Karpathy built a tool that scraped all 342 occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fed each one to an LLM with a detailed scoring rubric, and produced an AI exposure score from 0 to 10. Software developers landed…
The Parallel Sessions Gap: Why Boris Cherny’s Workflow Reveals the Real AI Productivity Divide There is a version of AI-assisted development where you open one chat window, type a question, wait, copy some code, and close the tab. A lot of developers are still living there. Then there is Boris Cherny’s version, where 10 to…
AI Is Not Your Search Engine. It’s Your Thinking Partner. But Only If You Let It. There’s a loneliness problem in AI development that nobody wants to admit exists. Not the philosophical kind. The practical, 11pm-debugging-an-agentic-workflow kind. Your teammates are asleep. Slack is quiet. Stack Overflow has never seen your exact edge case. You’re staring…
