Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Unsung Hero: Damian Milton and the Theory That Changed Everything
In 2012, an autistic researcher named Damian Milton proposed that communication breakdowns between autistic and neurotypical people are mutual, not one-sided. The research community took a decade to catch up.
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Unsung Hero: One Person Holds the JavaScript Ecosystem Together
Sindre Sorhus maintains 1,100+ npm packages with billions of downloads per month. If he stopped tomorrow, a significant portion of the npm registry would break. He funds himself through GitHub Sponsors.
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Llama 4 Scout Has a 10 Million Token Context Window. Let That Sink In.
Meta released Llama 4 with a 10 million token context window. That is roughly 20 full novels. The implications for how we use AI are enormous and nobody is talking about the right ones.
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An AI Agent Nuked 2.5 Years of Production Data. The Lesson Is Not What You Think.
An engineer trusted Claude Code to update his education platform. A misconfiguration wiped 2.5 years of student work. 100,000 students affected. The real story is about guardrails, not AI.
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OpenClaw Went From 9K to 250K GitHub Stars in Four Months. Then Its Creator Left.
An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw surpassed React on GitHub. NVIDIA called it 'to agentic AI what GPT was to chatbots.' Then the creator joined OpenAI. What happens now?
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Unsung Hero: Sophie Wilson Designed the Chip in Your Phone
In 1983, a woman in Cambridge designed an instruction set. 250 billion chips later, it powers every smartphone, every tablet, and every Apple Silicon Mac on Earth. Her name is Sophie Wilson.
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Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. Then OpenAI Said Yes.
Dario Amodei drew a hard line against military use of Claude. Days later, OpenAI signed a classified defense deal. ChatGPT uninstalls spiked 295%. This is the moment the AI industry split in two.
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Meta Is Firing 15,000 Humans to Build Better Machines
Meta plans to cut 20% of its workforce to offset $135 billion in AI spending. The stock went up. The metaverse is dead. The machines won.
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OpenAI Shut Down Sora. It Cost $15 Million a Day to Run and Made $2.1 Million Total.
OpenAI killed its AI video generator after burning $15 million per day in compute costs against $2.1 million in total lifetime revenue. But the real story is not about Sora. It is about the entire AI industry running on subsidized magic.
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Walmart Tried AI Checkout Inside ChatGPT. It Converted 3x Worse Than Their Website.
Walmart put 200,000 products inside ChatGPT with instant checkout. The conversion rate was one-third of their regular website. The first real data point that agentic commerce is not ready.