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Slop with Green Tests

There is a great deal of anxiety spreading through the tech industry. AI models are improving far too quickly, tasks that looked difficult six months ago are now trivial, and nobody can say with much confidence what the role of a software developer will look…

Synthesis, narrators and the loudest story

Nobody planned jazz. African polyrhythm and European harmonic theory had spent over a century on the same continent without producing it, the ingredients orbiting each other across plantations, parlors, and church halls without ever quite colliding. What finally changed the equation was a city. New…

Overfed, overthought, overasked. Stop sabotaging your AI.

More thinking tokens should mean better output. 121 dispatches across five providers proved that wrong, along with most other assumptions about how AI reasoning actually works. Code review is a useful proxy for how AI models reason: it requires reading comprehension, domain knowledge, structured judgment,…

Intelligence Crossed the Line. The World Kept Arguing.

The most important revolutions don't start with a bang. They start with everyone agreeing that nothing fundamental has changed, right up until it becomes impossible to pretend otherwise. Artificial intelligence may have crossed that line so quietly that the world is still debating whether the…