The Alien Tool With No Manual
Andrej Karpathy built the neural networks inside coding assistants. He taught deep learning to a generation. He feels dramatically behind. If the experts are lost, what does that tell us?
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Curated essays on AI, agentic systems, and the evolution of digital consciousness
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Andrej Karpathy built the neural networks inside coding assistants. He taught deep learning to a generation. He feels dramatically behind. If the experts are lost, what does that tell us?
Read more →Convex, Vite, Clerk, shadcn, Cloudflare, Resend. A modern stack where every component has a generous free tier, agents do the heavy lifting, and you don't touch infrastructure until you have paying customers.
Read more →The real revolution isn't AI in your terminal. It's moving at the speed of thought from a single interface. When friction exists, build a CLI.
Read more →OpenAI's latest model isn't about better prompting - it's about better delegation. What that means for 2026, and how it compares to Opus 4.5.
Read more →Steve Yegge and Gene Kim explain why Claude Code 'ain't it' yet, why senior engineers are resisting, and what next year's tools will actually look like.
Read more →Anthropic denied issues for weeks, then published a postmortem admitting three bugs degraded 16% of Claude requests. The pattern keeps repeating.
Read more →51% of web traffic is now bots - the first time machines exceeded humans. $238B wasted on fake impressions in 2024. Out-of-home is the fraud-proof alternative.
Read more →The human-facing web is dying. Zero-click searches, bot traffic exceeding humans, publishers losing 40%+ traffic. What comes next: an agentic web where sites are API endpoints, not destinations.
Read more →The official Claude Code plugin that lets agents work autonomously for hours. When to use it, when not to, and the philosophy behind letting AI fail repeatedly until it succeeds.
Read more →At around 30 employees, growing companies either mature or become toxic. Here's the playbook for organizational dysfunction - and why your engineering leaders keep leaving.
Read more →The PM/Eng split dissolved into product engineering. Now the traditional software development lifecycle is following suit as coding agents handle multi-hour tasks across planning, building, testing, and deployment.
Read more →Google's Gemini 3 just broke every benchmark that matters. What that means for the 'AI has hit a wall' narrative, and where it actually helps.
Read more →How AI and spec-driven development are fusing product management with engineering, creating a new hybrid role that's transforming how small teams ship software.
Read more →Why coding interviews optimized for 2010 fail to identify great engineers in 2025, and why orgs can't adapt fast enough.
Read more →MCPs, subagents, and automation are tempting. But the developers getting the most from Claude Code aren't rushing to advanced features - they're mastering the fundamentals.
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