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AI Operator7 pieces

AI Agents Can Stay on the Case. Their Financial Permission Shouldn't. · 2026-08-07Your AI Agent Has the Data. It Is Missing the Relationships. Let's talk about Graphs. · 2026-08-14Your Agent's Prompt Is Not Its Mandate · 2026-08-21
AI Work Needs Proof, Not Just a Good Explanation · 2026-10-02When an AI Task Times Out, Check Before You Retry · 2026-10-09Who lets an AI correction change the books? · 2026-10-17An invoice can give your AI facts. Who gives it orders? · 2026-10-23

Fin:Tech & Zen12 pieces

Jeff Dean leaves Google to automate discovery itself, and the whole industry places the same bet · 2026-08-11AI models that hack on their own, and the capital racing toward them · 2026-08-17Stripe buys OpenRouter and reaches for the whole toll road of the machine economy · 2026-08-23Anthropic Is Asking Wall Street to Finance the Age of Intelligence · 2026-08-29
What Nvidia bought when it bought Hugging Face · 2026-09-07The proof, the machine, and the argument over who solved Navier-Stokes · 2026-09-12The warnings, the evidence, and the argument over slowing AI · 2026-09-19When an AI agent treats a security barrier as part of the assignment · 2026-09-28
OpenAI's Dots bring persistent AI into everyday work, with accountability still to be demonstrated · 2026-10-03Google’s bid for Spirit Airlines’ working memory · 2026-10-10Anthropic's leaked numbers and the AI trade · 2026-10-17The return of war planning with Iran · 2026-10-27

Man and Machine57 pieces

Man and Machine: The Soul File · 2026-02-09Man and Machine: The #Games · 2026-02-10Man and Machine - The #Inbox · 2026-02-11Man and Machine - The #Fleet · 2026-02-12Man and Machine: The #Overnight Build · 2026-02-13Man and Macine: The #Memory Problem · 2026-02-16Man and Machine: The #Guardrail · 2026-02-17Man and Machine: The #Pattern I Missed · 2026-02-18Man and Machine: The #Mirror · 2026-02-20Man and Machine: The 10-Second #Deck · 2026-02-23Man and Machine: The #Retool · 2026-02-24Man & Machine: The #Bionics Plan · 2026-02-26Man and Machine - The #Blueprint · 2026-02-27
Man and Machine: Two Kinds of #CEO 's · 2026-03-09Man and Machine: The #Scroll · 2026-03-12Man and Machine: #Karpathy AI Exposure x Payments · 2026-03-16Man and Machine: I Gave an AI $100 and Told It to Start a #Business · 2026-03-23
Man and Machine: The Org Chart Becomes a Codebase · 2026-04-13Man and Machine: How AI Is Changing the Way I Process Information · 2026-04-15
Man and Machine: The Human in the Loop · 2026-06-01Man and Machine: The Fallback Test · 2026-06-03Man and Machine: The Boundary Is the Product · 2026-06-15Man and Machine: The Taste Gate · 2026-06-17Man and Machine: The Quiet Receipt · 2026-06-22Man and Machine: The Green Light That Wasn’t · 2026-06-29
Man and Machine: The Message That Stayed Put · 2026-07-01Man and Machine: The Gate Before the Lesson · 2026-07-06Man and Machine: The Receipt Before the Result · 2026-07-08Man and Machine: The Readable Company · 2026-07-13Man and Machine: The Pool Bubbler · 2026-07-15Man and Machine: The Wine Memory · 2026-07-20Man and Machine: The Family Archive · 2026-07-22Man and Machine: The Printer Test · 2026-07-27Man and Machine: The Practice Plan · 2026-07-29
Man and Machine: Setting the Stage · 2026-08-03Man and Machine: The Plane-Ride Packet · 2026-08-10Man and Machine: Raise the Agent, Start with Values · 2026-08-12Man and Machine: The Week I Stopped Adding · 2026-08-17Man and Machine: The Library That Knows What Not to Read · 2026-08-19Man and Machine: The Roll Call Before Dawn · 2026-08-24Man and Machine: When the Right Answer Is Not Yet · 2026-08-26Man and Machine: Show Me the Simple Thing · 2026-08-31
Man and Machine: A Separate Room for the Trip · 2026-09-02Man and Machine: A Round That Could Talk Back · 2026-09-07Man and Machine: Teaching an Agent When to Stop Polishing · 2026-09-09Man and Machine: The Week Nothing Went Missing · 2026-09-14Man and Machine: The Computer I Wasn’t Using Became a Workshop · 2026-09-16Man and Machine: When the Workshop Needed a Foreman · 2026-09-21Man and Machine: I Gave the Machines Names. Then I Had to Give Them Jobs. · 2026-09-23Man and Machine: The Part of AI You Can Trip Over · 2026-09-28The Most Expensive Token Is the One That Did No Useful Work · 2026-09-30
Man and Machine: One Correction Should Change the Next Draft · 2026-10-05Leave the Questions on the Page · 2026-10-08Man and Machine: The Lawn Didn’t Get the Message · 2026-10-12Man and Machine: The Video We Couldn’t Read · 2026-10-14Man and Machine: The First Voice Was the Wrong Voice · 2026-10-19Man and Machine: The App Said Online · 2026-10-21

Which Day Are We On?9 pieces

The Penny Still Looks Like Nothing · 2026-08-07When Everything Starts Looking Like Everything Else · 2026-08-21
When Our Ideas Meet Inside the Machine · 2026-09-08The Race That Justifies Itself · 2026-09-14The Disappearing Ladder · 2026-09-22Which Day Are We On Now? · 2026-09-24
The Next Experiment Has Changed · 2026-10-04Who Owns the Machine That Does the Work? · 2026-10-18The Models Arrived Before the Workflow · 2026-10-25
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2026-02-09
Latest
2026-10-27
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AI models that hack on their own, and the capital racing toward them (2,546 words)

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AI Operator (7)
  1. An invoice can give your AI facts. Who gives it orders? ·
  2. Who lets an AI correction change the books? ·
  3. When an AI Task Times Out, Check Before You Retry ·
  4. AI Work Needs Proof, Not Just a Good Explanation ·
  5. Your Agent's Prompt Is Not Its Mandate ·
  6. Your AI Agent Has the Data. It Is Missing the Relationships. Let's talk about Graphs. ·
  7. AI Agents Can Stay on the Case. Their Financial Permission Shouldn't. ·
Fin:Tech & Zen (12)
  1. The return of war planning with Iran ·
  2. Anthropic's leaked numbers and the AI trade ·
  3. Google’s bid for Spirit Airlines’ working memory ·
  4. OpenAI's Dots bring persistent AI into everyday work, with accountability still to be demonstrated ·
  5. When an AI agent treats a security barrier as part of the assignment ·
  6. The warnings, the evidence, and the argument over slowing AI ·
  7. The proof, the machine, and the argument over who solved Navier-Stokes ·
  8. What Nvidia bought when it bought Hugging Face ·
  9. Anthropic Is Asking Wall Street to Finance the Age of Intelligence ·
  10. Stripe buys OpenRouter and reaches for the whole toll road of the machine economy ·
  11. AI models that hack on their own, and the capital racing toward them ·
  12. Jeff Dean leaves Google to automate discovery itself, and the whole industry places the same bet ·
Man and Machine (57)
  1. Man and Machine: The App Said Online ·
  2. Man and Machine: The First Voice Was the Wrong Voice ·
  3. Man and Machine: The Video We Couldn’t Read ·
  4. Man and Machine: The Lawn Didn’t Get the Message ·
  5. Leave the Questions on the Page ·
  6. Man and Machine: One Correction Should Change the Next Draft ·
  7. The Most Expensive Token Is the One That Did No Useful Work ·
  8. Man and Machine: The Part of AI You Can Trip Over ·
  9. Man and Machine: I Gave the Machines Names. Then I Had to Give Them Jobs. ·
  10. Man and Machine: When the Workshop Needed a Foreman ·
  11. Man and Machine: The Computer I Wasn’t Using Became a Workshop ·
  12. Man and Machine: The Week Nothing Went Missing ·
  13. Man and Machine: Teaching an Agent When to Stop Polishing ·
  14. Man and Machine: A Round That Could Talk Back ·
  15. Man and Machine: A Separate Room for the Trip ·
  16. Man and Machine: Show Me the Simple Thing ·
  17. Man and Machine: When the Right Answer Is Not Yet ·
  18. Man and Machine: The Roll Call Before Dawn ·
  19. Man and Machine: The Library That Knows What Not to Read ·
  20. Man and Machine: The Week I Stopped Adding ·
  21. Man and Machine: Raise the Agent, Start with Values ·
  22. Man and Machine: The Plane-Ride Packet ·
  23. Man and Machine: Setting the Stage ·
  24. Man and Machine: The Practice Plan ·
  25. Man and Machine: The Printer Test ·
  26. Man and Machine: The Family Archive ·
  27. Man and Machine: The Wine Memory ·
  28. Man and Machine: The Pool Bubbler ·
  29. Man and Machine: The Readable Company ·
  30. Man and Machine: The Receipt Before the Result ·
  31. Man and Machine: The Gate Before the Lesson ·
  32. Man and Machine: The Message That Stayed Put ·
  33. Man and Machine: The Green Light That Wasn’t ·
  34. Man and Machine: The Quiet Receipt ·
  35. Man and Machine: The Taste Gate ·
  36. Man and Machine: The Boundary Is the Product ·
  37. Man and Machine: The Fallback Test ·
  38. Man and Machine: The Human in the Loop ·
  39. Man and Machine: How AI Is Changing the Way I Process Information ·
  40. Man and Machine: The Org Chart Becomes a Codebase ·
  41. Man and Machine: I Gave an AI $100 and Told It to Start a #Business ·
  42. Man and Machine: #Karpathy AI Exposure x Payments ·
  43. Man and Machine: The #Scroll ·
  44. Man and Machine: Two Kinds of #CEO 's ·
  45. Man and Machine - The #Blueprint ·
  46. Man & Machine: The #Bionics Plan ·
  47. Man and Machine: The #Retool ·
  48. Man and Machine: The 10-Second #Deck ·
  49. Man and Machine: The #Mirror ·
  50. Man and Machine: The #Pattern I Missed ·
  51. Man and Machine: The #Guardrail ·
  52. Man and Macine: The #Memory Problem ·
  53. Man and Machine: The #Overnight Build ·
  54. Man and Machine - The #Fleet ·
  55. Man and Machine - The #Inbox ·
  56. Man and Machine: The #Games ·
  57. Man and Machine: The Soul File ·
Which Day Are We On? (9)
  1. The Models Arrived Before the Workflow ·
  2. Who Owns the Machine That Does the Work? ·
  3. The Next Experiment Has Changed ·
  4. Which Day Are We On Now? ·
  5. The Disappearing Ladder ·
  6. The Race That Justifies Itself ·
  7. When Our Ideas Meet Inside the Machine ·
  8. When Everything Starts Looking Like Everything Else ·
  9. The Penny Still Looks Like Nothing ·

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