Throughput is the new AI benchmark
TL;DR: The interesting part of recursive self-improvement is that it moves the AI conversation from model score to real work throughput. To know whether AI is useful, we should not only ask how it ...
Builder's Whetstone
Agents Run The Loop. Humans Face Reality.
TL;DR: The question is not whether agents will take human work. The question is which work should become a loop, and which work must stay human. Agents are good at monitoring, drafting, checking, u...
Hive Mind, Another Big Word?
TL;DR: Yegge’s piece on Anthropic’s hive mind is not really about smart people collaborating well. The interesting part is that hive mind has preconditions. AI did not invent elite teams. It change...
Anthropic's Real Competitor Is AWS, Not OpenAI
TL;DR: Foundation models are converging. The top 10 on Chatbot Arena are within 44 ELO points. API prices dropped 80% in a year. Anthropic’s real play is becoming the next AWS, not winning the next...
AI Didn't Make Collaboration Easier. It Just Moved the Bottleneck.
Does AI make teamwork easier? Where’s the real bottleneck in your pipeline? My take — AI didn’t reduce the friction. It relocated it. We needed to put together a review deck. Engineers and PMs,...
Musk Didn't Lose the AI Race — He Was Running a Different One
TL;DR: xAI is dead. Colossus 1 now runs Claude. Did Musk lose? He was never on the same track. Musk dissolved xAI, renamed it SpaceXAI, and leased all of Colossus 1 — 220,000+ Nvidia GPUs, 300+ ...
Why AI Agents Forget What You Mean: Part 1 — The Partial Signal Problem
TL;DR: Users never give complete instructions — they give partial signals and expect the system to fill in the rest. Most AI memory solutions try to “remember more.” The fix is filling in the half ...
Why We Review Better on a Page Than in a Chat
Chat-based document editing feels exhausting because it fights how your brain works. You lose spatial memory, overload working memory, and constantly switch between evaluating and instructing. The ...
Are You the Lubricant or the Playbook?
TL;DR: A playbook captures how to do things. It cannot capture whether to do them (strategic intuition) or how to make them actually happen through people (lubrication). If your job can be distille...
Counterintuitive Growth: Add Friction, Kill A/B Tests
TL;DR: Two ideas from Anthropic’s growth team that broke my priors: adding friction to onboarding increases conversion when your product has a discoverability problem, and AI-first companies should...