A lot of professional writers say they never do it. And for writers who do, the consequences can be serious. Book contracts have been withdrawn. People have lost jobs. I have a contrarian view. I say AI is a medium, like painting, sculpture, photography, music, or language itself. If AI is a medium, it is […]
For a decade, identity and access management meant one thing: governing the humans who log in. Employee joins, gets provisioned, gets a manager, gets a departure date, gets offboarded. That loop is well understood. What changed is that the fastest-growing population inside enterprise environments is no longer human, and the governance playbook written for people […]
The following article originally appeared on PulseMCP’s blog and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Most MCP demos feature a single server connecting to a single client. For example, you might wire up a Gmail MCP server to Claude Code. It works! It triages your inbox, drafts replies, finds that thing from three […]
The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Even the best AI models can suck at chess The launch of ChatGPT had an interesting effect on the online chess discourse. Chess has already long been conquered by machines. As early as 1996 a computer […]
AI-assisted development has made it easier to generate frontend code quickly. A developer can ask for a form, a dashboard widget, a settings page, or a modal flow and get a working first draft in seconds. That speed is useful, especially when teams are moving through routine UI work. But speed creates a problem that’s […]
There was a brief window where AI agent security felt like a future problem. Organizations deployed copilots, coding assistants, and autonomous workflows on the assumption that the worst case was a bad recommendation or a hallucinated answer. That window closed in the first half of 2026, when a cluster of vulnerabilities and a landmark incident […]
To keep pace with modern business, data strategy is shifting toward more autonomous real-time systems that deliver intelligence at the moment decisions are made. Driven by agentic AI, modern data teams are moving beyond simply looking at what happened. Now they’re automating complex workflows that analyze what’s happening, anticipate what might happen next, and recommend […]
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. If the AI layer gets good at anything, it will be anything that has an answer key. School used to be answer keys all the way down. School is the ultimate anchoring of success, because it’s […]
In 2026, the software engineering community is divided by a simple question: Should AI engineers still read the code generated by their agents? One camp argues that code has become virtually free to produce and discard, so humans should focus on systems and guardrails rather than implementation details. The other warns that blindly trusting AI […]
In 2021, Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, deployed AI agents from a startup called Pactum to negotiate freight lane contracts with its carrier suppliers. The objective was for AI agents to handle negotiations autonomously rather than merely support human procurement staff. Operating entirely autonomously, the system manages the end-to-end agreement process, from reaching […]
The latest round of restrictions and safeguards for frontier models are overly fussy and limiting. A Claude skill that I created demonstrates what happens when guardrails go astray. My skill helps me to find articles and blog posts that go into O’Reilly Radar’s monthly Trends to Watch. It reads roughly a dozen well-known sites like […]
The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, AI is increasingly being treated as something that needs to be controlled. The government believes that AI is, first and foremost, a national security asset, meaning that it must be sequestered to prevent […]
The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, AI is increasingly being treated as something that needs to be controlled. The government believes that AI is, first and foremost, a national security asset, meaning that it must be sequestered to prevent […]
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose job was to write boilerplate or scaffold CRUD apps is done—a model can do that in seconds, and that developer is not coming back. But the […]
The following article has been extended and rewritten by Markus Eisele from The Main Thread and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Open a repository after six months of spec-driven agent work and you may find a second system sitting next to the code. Requirements, research notes, high-level designs, low-level designs, implementation plans, […]