
March 5, 2026
GPT-5.4: What's real, what's packaging, and what got left out
GPT-5.4's coding and tool-use improvements are real. The claim that it 'matches professionals' is doing more heavy lifting than the model itself.
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March 5, 2026
GPT-5.4's coding and tool-use improvements are real. The claim that it 'matches professionals' is doing more heavy lifting than the model itself.

March 5, 2026
London's structural advantages for AI are real. The question nobody's asking is why those same advantages haven't fixed productivity since 2008.

March 3, 2026
A weekend guide to Perplexity Computer tests every prompt and none of the failure modes. The most useful thing a tool review can tell you is where it breaks.

March 3, 2026
AI became a power story, not a technology story. Framing it as Act Two implies an Act Three. There is no evidence that's coming.

March 3, 2026
A viral guide to agentic engineering buries useful advice on context management inside an ascension narrative that contradicts its own thesis.

March 3, 2026
A viral thread says AI agents can work while you sleep, turning idle hours into output. Coal doesn't hallucinate. Spare bedrooms don't need code review.

March 3, 2026
Agent frameworks filled the space between good-enough models and missing infrastructure. Now the labs are building down and automation platforms are building up.

March 3, 2026
Code review is drowning under AI-generated output. The proposed fix — specs, agents, and layered verification — diagnoses a real problem then overshoots the landing.

March 3, 2026
A thorough survey of how top AI agents are actually built makes the case that the harness is the product. The data underneath tells a more complicated story.

March 3, 2026
A CEO's essay on identity and AI adaptation sounds right — until you notice the seventeen jobs lost get one paragraph and the freedom of letting go gets six.

March 2, 2026
A transactional lawyer built his entire practice around Claude. The real insight isn't about prompting — it's that judgment is the asset AI makes more valuable.

February 26, 2026
A viral thread about escaping AI slop, delivered in the exact format it claims to transcend. The one useful idea is buried under nineteen paragraphs of atmosphere.
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