Software Factories Are Here and Engineers Are Now Operators
Factory just said the quiet part out loud. Engineers don't write software anymore. They build the factories that write the software. Here is what that actually means.
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I Built a Skill That Turns Claude Into a Project Manager
A single command that decomposes a plan, spins up parallel sub-agents in isolated git worktrees, runs QA, tracks costs, and delivers a tabbed HTML report. Here is how /buildthis works, why I built it, and how to install it.
Nobody Gets Above a C+: The AI Safety Index, Graded
The Future of Life Institute just graded nine AI companies on safety. The best score? C+. Three companies failed outright. Here is what the data actually says.
Atoms, Bits, and Moats: Why the Next Defensible Companies Will Be Built in the Physical World
Travis Kalanick just raised $1.7B for a company called Atoms. His framework for atoms-based computation reveals why software moats are eroding and physical-world companies are becoming the most defensible businesses of the next decade.
Five Steps of AI Adoption and Why Most Teams Are Stuck on Step One
Boris Cherny published a framework for AI adoption that maps the journey from gated access to thousands of autonomous agents. Most engineering teams think they are further along than they are. Here is how to tell where you actually stand.
The Anti-MCP Alliance Built a Protocol That Needs MCP to Work
Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and nine other companies launched the Agentic Resource Discovery protocol to counter Anthropic's MCP dominance. There is one problem. ARD does not replace MCP. It sits on top of it. The coalition built a discovery layer for the very protocol they are trying to compete with.
The Computer You Grow
Scientific Reports published an analog AI chip you farm, not fabricate: 3M per harvest, under a dollar, and it composts. The science of grown computers.
The Heat Wall: Why the Fastest Chips Are Turning to Diamond
Modern chips are heat-limited, not transistor-limited. Diamond is the best heat conductor on Earth, and a funded effort is now wrapping silicon and GaN in
There Is No Free Token
Naspers handed South Africa free, unlimited, Anthropic-powered AI, with a subscription coming and your data as the moat. Sovereignty with a friendly face.
The Meter on the Mind
For most of computing history, thinking was free. In 2026 it got a price tag. We metered cognition, and every metered utility eventually gets gamed.