No. 01
TechnologyOctober 22, 2026
Local-first AI: why your next agent might not need the cloud
Small open models now run on hardware you can buy. Here's a three-question test for which AI workloads can stay local, and where the cloud still wins.
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No. 02
TechnologyOctober 16, 2026
The visual turn in AI: why text-only prompting is already obsolete
OpenAI and Claude now answer with charts you can touch. The prompting skills gap was partly the text box's fault. How to judge an AI tool from now on.
No. 03
TechnologySeptember 10, 2026
Apple's Siri delay: how to tell a good wait from a stall
Apple's Siri delay is a useful test for your AI roadmap. A good wait names the failure it fixes and proves it. A stall just books another review date.
No. 04
TechnologySeptember 2, 2026
The least-privilege principle: what an AI-deleted database tells you about agent permissions
An AI coding agent deleted an entire production database in nine seconds. The failure was permissions, not a rogue AI, and least privilege is the fix.
No. 05
TechnologyAugust 27, 2026
The anti-sycophancy playbook: how to tune AI assistants for operators, not therapy
Consumer AI is tuned to flatter you. Here's how to retune your assistants to argue back — system prompts, honest evals and an assistant-adviser split.
No. 06
TechnologyAugust 14, 2026
Think at the speed of speech: why voice input changes everything about AI prompting
Speaking is three times faster than typing, and GPT-Live's full-duplex voice finally keeps up — how to make voice input your default way to prompt AI.
No. 07
TechnologyAugust 12, 2026
Jagged intelligence: why your AI can ace the interview but fail the job
AI can ace one task and fail the next. Here's why the interview heuristic misleads you, and how to map your jagged frontier before trusting the tools.
No. 08
TechnologyAugust 7, 2026
Context engineering: the skill that replaced prompt engineering
Prompt engineering had its moment. Context engineering — giving AI the right information rather than cleverer wording — is the skill that matters now.
No. 09
TechnologyAugust 2, 2026
When software stops being a menu
Menus did two jobs and we only ever complained about one. As AI removes them, discoverability stops being a layout problem and becomes a teaching one.
No. 10
TechnologyJuly 27, 2026
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook — what actually changed
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, and every notebook now gets a cloud computer that runs code on your documents. What changed and what to test first.