08/2026 → Quick Byte 5 min Dave Plummer Built Windows Task Manager. Now He’s Doing It Again With AI Windows Task Manager began as Dave Plummer’s home project. Thirty years later, he has returned to the idea with TMOG and an AI coding agent. AI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis
08/2026 → Research Note 7 min Deep Agents: LangChain's Open Agent Harness Layer Deep Agents began as a Claude Code-inspired package. Its 2026 evolution shows the agent harness becoming an independently optimized layer. AI Tools & InfrastructureAI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis
07/2026 → Research Note 7 min What MCP Means by “Stateless” MCP did not eliminate state. It moved protocol metadata into each request and made application state explicit, durable, and independently secured. AI Tools & InfrastructureAI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis
07/2026 → Research Note 8 min OpenAI's Agents Hacked Hugging Face. Containment Failed OpenAI's frontier agents breached Hugging Face during an evaluation. The lasting lesson is about containment, authority, and response. Security & Adversarial AIAI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
07/2026 → Research Note 7 min The Easy Part Was Checking It: AI and the Jacobian Counterexample A reported AI-assisted counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture is easy to verify once seen. The harder question is how anyone found it. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
07/2026 → Quick Byte 4 min GPT-5.6 Turns Codex Into OpenAI's New Work-Agent Bet OpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout is less about one stronger model and more about turning Codex-style agents into everyday work infrastructure. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry AnalysisAI-Assisted Development
07/2026 → Quick Byte 6 min Claude Sonnet 5 Is the Frontier Model for the Default Slot Anthropic's new Sonnet model matters because it targets the default agent tier while Fable and Mythos move through access controls. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Deep Dive 6 min The AI Stack Is Closing HP is governing agents, OpenAI is designing chips, and Hugging Face can launch a private model endpoint in one command. Three stories, one race to control the full AI stack. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Quick Byte 3 min The US Government Just Forced Two Frontier AI Models Offline Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. The jailbreak cited is a code-reading capability available in every frontier model. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Quick Byte 2 min Visual Studio Ships Full Pull Request Reviews Inside the IDE VS 18.7 ships a complete in-IDE PR review cycle for GitHub and Azure DevOps. Diffs, comments, approvals, and merges — no browser tab required. AI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Deep Dive 13 min Fable 5's Included Window Isn't Free, and the Meter Starts June 23 Fable 5 is 'included at no extra cost' until June 22. It burns plan quota at double weight, and on June 23 the meter switches to real money. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Deep Dive 13 min MCP Just Became a Trading Rail: Robinhood Opens to AI Agents Robinhood's new MCP endpoint lets any AI agent place real stock trades. The isolated account is the whole safety story. What it bounds, and what it doesn't. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Deep Dive 11 min When Multi-Agent Systems Help and When They Quietly Wreck Your Task Google and MIT measured 260 agent configurations. Parallel work gained up to 81%. Sequential work lost up to 70%. Here is the builder's rubric. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Deep Dive 12 min Copilot's Meter Is On: What Usage-Based AI Credits Cost You On June 1, 2026 GitHub Copilot swapped flat seats for metered AI Credits. The prices barely moved. The act of metering is the real story. AI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis
06/2026 → Deep Dive 16 min Agent Memory in 2026: Methods, Benchmark Theater, Thin-and-Local Agent memory is a real discipline now, but the vendor leaderboard is theater. Learn the durable layer, read a benchmark claim, default to thin-and-local. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
05/2026 → Deep Dive 14 min Effort Control Is a Leaky Abstraction Vendors Sold You Reasoning effort knobs shipped across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The dial is real, but the vendors punted the calibration to you and called it control. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
05/2026 → Deep Dive 14 min Anthropic Glasswing and the Gating of Superhuman Bug-Finding Anthropic gated superhuman bug-finding to ~50 partners. The capability is real. The gate is a delay, not a fix, and the long tail pays. Security & Adversarial AIIndustry Analysis
02/2026 → Deep Dive 12 min The Homogenization Engine: How LLMs Are Shrinking Cognitive Diversity AI makes every individual more creative. But groups using AI produce less diverse ideas. The cost is collective, invisible, and measurable. Developer PsychologyIndustry Analysis
02/2026 → Deep Dive 12 min Context Windows Are a Lie: How LLMs Actually Use Long Context Models claim 1M tokens. Research shows they struggle past 32K. Here's what 'lost in the middle' means for developers stuffing codebases into prompts. AI-Assisted DevelopmentIndustry Analysis
02/2026 → Deep Dive 12 min Hybrid RNN-Attention: Efficiency Gains Are Real, Revolution Isn't Hybrid architectures deliver up to 8x inference speedup, but no model has proved the concept at frontier scale. An optimization, not a paradigm break. AI Tools & InfrastructureIndustry Analysis
01/2026 → Experiment 9 min The Invisible Prompt: Hunting Hidden LLM Instructions on the Web Microsoft found 50+ hidden AI instructions in commercial web pages. I built a detection pipeline, replicated the attacks, and scanned live sites. Security & Adversarial AIIndustry Analysis
07/2025 → Quick Byte 5 min Wired Like a Brain: Neuromorphic Hardware's AI Future Neuromorphic chips mimic biological neurons in silicon, delivering 25-1000x energy savings over GPUs and opening radical new possibilities for AI hardware. Computational NeuroscienceIndustry Analysis