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February 21, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Code Security finds real vulnerabilities that survived decades of review. The tool is impressive. The access model raises harder questions.
February 21, 2026
A thoughtful argument that AI depends on human judgment runs headfirst into the reality that the companies building these systems treat that judgment as a cost to optimise away.
February 21, 2026
A viral AI curriculum thread contains useful technical orientation — buried inside manufactured urgency and unexamined economics.
February 21, 2026
Bryan Johnson's AI collapse thesis is sharp — right up until the moment it becomes a launch sequence for his own brand.
February 20, 2026
Hebbia's George Sivulka makes the best case yet for vertical software: the product isn't the code, it's the agreement. He's mostly right.
February 20, 2026
Shubham Saboo says the only skills that matter in 2026 are AI-native ones. The workflow observations are real. The universality claim isn't.
February 20, 2026
Amy Tam frames AI career moves as compound interest. The judgment-over-execution insight is real. The urgency architecture is venture capital thinking applied where it doesn't belong.
February 20, 2026
Obie Fernandez says your multi-year AI strategy is a death sentence. The advice is good. The 'one engineer, one weekend' framing isn't.
February 20, 2026
Packy McCormick's AI strategy framework is the best I've read this year. It's also written entirely for founders and investors. The rest of us are still waiting.
February 20, 2026
Chamath uses Medallion Fund's returns to argue for autonomous AI investing. The example is unimpeachable. The leap from it to your portfolio isn't.
February 20, 2026
Annie Lowrey's Atlantic piece on AI and white-collar jobs nails the structural-vs-cyclical distinction. The forecast is shakier than the diagnosis.
February 20, 2026
A study using real spending data finds a 33:1 cost ratio when firms swap freelancers for AI. The number is real. What it generalises to is another matter.
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