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Companies are rushing to launch AI projects without knowing why they need them, what success looks like, or who is responsible when things go wrong.AI projects are failing at an alarming rate.According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, 42% of...
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When the GPT-5.6 update landed in Codex, my first reaction was confusion. Instead of a single new flagship model, I was suddenly looking at three options: Luna, Terra and Sol.My immediate questions were probably the same as yours: Which one is the...
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Years ago, I made a mistake that I still think about.I was working on an online product and, through a combination of bad decisions and overconfidence, I managed to tank the site’s Google traffic almost overnight. Not gradually. Fast. The kind of ...
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Let me start with a disclaimer. This is not a definitive guide. It’s a snapshot. A dispatch from the field, written in May 2026, about two tools that are shipping updates so fast that something I write today may be outdated by next week.Both Anthr...
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I’ll be honest. Last week, when I first heard about Claude Design, I was genuinely curious. Is Anthropic doing to design what it did to code?After Anthropic reshaped how developers write software with Claude Code, and how knowledge workers operate...
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I’ll be honest with you. When I first read about Claude Mythos, my reaction wasn’t awe. It was a question I couldn’t shake.Not “is this real?” The capabilities are real. The vulnerabilities it found are real. A 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, a 16-ye...
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One year ago I wrote that AI would turn us all into 10x developers. I was wrong and what actually happened is more interesting.About a year ago, I wrote an article I’m going to reference quite directly here. The title was “How AI is turning all de...
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In early February 2026, the artificial intelligence industry witnessed one of its most significant moments in recent years. Almost simultaneously, OpenAI and Anthropic released two flagship models: GPT-5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6.At first glance...
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You’ve probably heard about OpenClaw (or one of its previous names like Clawdbot or Moltbot). It’s everywhere right now.People are calling it a “personal AI employee”. Demos show it reading emails, controlling browsers, sending messages, running s...
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