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Your AI Isn’t “Smart.” It’s Just Well-Organized (And That’s the Point)

From “Human-Sounding” to “Actually Useful”: Memory, Voice, and Benchmarks That Turn LLMs Into Real Agents If you’ve spent the last year watching AI “write like a human,” “talk like a human,” and “code like a human,” you’…

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Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw: The AI Agent That Renamed Itself Into a Bug

If you ever want to watch an internet phenomenon speedrun the entire lifecycle of a tech product — launch, hype, trademark panic, rebrand, second rebrand, existential crisis — congratulations. You’re li…

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How to Recreate ClawdBot’s “43K Stars” Moment With $100 (Spoiler: You Can’t)

There’s a certain kind of person who looks at ClawdBot going from “nice little repo” to “GitHub black hole” and thinks: “Right. I’ll just do that. With a hundred bucks. Over the …

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When AI Stops “Answering” and Starts Discovering: The Week Reasoning Got Real

From UnsolvedMath to test-time training, the new frontier isn’t “getting the right answer” — it’s generating verifiable new ideas when nobody knows the answer yet. If you’ve been watching AI for the last two years, you’v…

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Sam Altman Talked About the Future (And Accidentally Explained Why Building Software Is Now the Easy Part)

Last night’s Sam Altman livestream didn’t come with a shiny new product drop, a dramatic demo, or a “one more thing.” Which, frankly, was almost relaxing. Instead, it was mostly a guided tour of w…

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The “Country of Geniuses” Is Moving In Next Door (And We’re Not Ready)

Dario Amodei just published a long essay, “The Adolescence of Technology” , as a deliberate counterpart to his earlier, more optimistic “Machines of Loving Grace.” And the vibe shift is… not…

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The Transformer Has a Brain (and Sometimes It’s Faking the Thinking)

Inside today’s LLMs, intelligence isn’t “more tokens.” It’s a fragile mid-layer core, smarter memory, and a constant temptation to fake the thinking. We’ve spent the last two years talking about large language models the…

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I Installed Clawdbot (Now Moltbot) and Accidentally Hired a Full-Time AI Coworker

The chat-native, self-hosted agent that’s making people buy Mac minis, automating real work in Telegram, and forcing everyone to relearn “security” the hard way. Clawdbot (renamed to Moltbot ) is an open-source AI agent …

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Moltbot (née Clawdbot): The Open-Source “Lobster Agent” That Turned Everyone’s Weekend Into a Sysadmin Shift

If you’re skimming (TL;DR) Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent that lives in your messengers (Telegram/WhatsApp/Slack/Discord/etc.), can use real tools (terminal, browser, files, Gma…

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Nano Banana Pro vs. Midjourney SREF: The Day “Style” Stopped Being Magic

The problem: “Style reference” is often just… vibes with a Wi-Fi signal You know the pitch: drop an image into SREF, and the machine will inherit the aesthetic . Sometimes it does. Sometimes it produces…

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The Universe Is a Computer. The Awkward Bit Is: It’s Also Unpredictable.

Why physics, AI reasoning, and democracy are all quietly colliding with the same hard limit: coordination beats prediction. There’s a comforting story we tell ourselves about technology. We build machines. Machines obey …

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The AI Boom Isn’t a Model Race. It’s a War for Electricity, Memory, and Mud.

Why the next AI winners won’t be the smartest models, but the teams who can buy the watts, the NAND, and the seabed. There’s a popular fantasy making the rounds in tech circles: that the future will be decided by who has…

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Management Theory 2.0: When Everyone Becomes a Boss of Infinite Workers

The modern company is turning into a machine that converts context (tokens) into actions . People won’t be replaced by “AI.” They’ll be replaced by teams who know how to run agents , curate contex…

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The Internet Is Becoming a Costume Shop (and We’re All Paying Rent)

How AI-made people, algorithmic “memory,” and automated ads are quietly turning the web into a trust crisis In the old days, platforms won because they were big. You used Instagram because your friends were there. You us…

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Rubik’s Cube Wasn’t Meant to Be a Puzzle. Then It Ate the World.

A clean photo-style illustration of a worn wooden cube prototype with paper color stickers and rubber bands, sitting on an architect’s desk next to a sketchbook of geometric drawings. The most successful “oop…

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Learn AI From Scratch in 2026 (Without Getting Scammed by “Vibes”)

Stop “studying AI.” Start shipping small, real things. Here’s the shortest path that works. There are two kinds of people trying to “learn AI” in 2026. The first kind buys a course called so…

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The AI Boom Is Turning Into Plumbing (and the Leaks Are the Point)

For years, “AI progress” meant one thing: bigger models, bigger benchmarks, bigger PowerPoints. Now the story has changed. Not because the hype died. Because the hype grew up and got a real job. We’re entering the era wh…

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: The Convenience Tax Nobody Mentions

There’s a certain modern miracle we all pretend is normal now. You open a blank page, feel that familiar draft-shaped dread, paste a prompt into ChatGPT… and five seconds later you’ve got an essay that …

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I Accidentally Turned New York Into SimCity

Let me set the scene. An engineer looks out from a balcony in Manhattan. Below him: streets, blocks, chaos, beauty. And his brain goes: “This looks like SimCity 2000.” Most people would think that thought and…

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“Record Everything Now, Decrypt Later” Is Not Sci-Fi Anymore (But It’s Also Not “Game Over”)

Forward secrecy protects you from stolen keys. It does not protect you from Shor. The good news: post-quantum TLS is already leaking into the real world. The bad news: most people are still “waiting for certainty.&…

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The AI Developer Stack Is Finally Growing Up (and It’s About Time)

For a while, “AI coding” felt like watching someone juggle flaming chainsaws while insisting it’s “basically safe.” Yes, the demo worked. Yes, the feature shipped. And yes, two weeks later you discovered your app had the…

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The ChatGPT Prompts That Paid for My Subscription This Month (With Interest)

The point (before we get distracted) People love to argue whether paying for ChatGPT is “worth it.” This is usually said by someone who uses it like a talking toaster. They ask for a poem, a summary, maybe a …

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The Age of “Anyone Can Build Anything” Is Here. Now Comes the Messy Part.

We spent years arguing about whether AI would “replace” people. That was adorable. The real story of 2026 is simpler and far more irritating: making stuff is getting cheap, fast, and embarrassingly easy … and that means …

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Freezing a Moving Target: A “Source of Truth” for Toki Pona → Sitelen Emoji

Toki Pona is a tiny constructed language with a surprisingly large creative community. Its official writing system, sitelen pona, has grown into many styles and practical variants over time, including an especially playf…

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The Biggest AI Trend of the Year Isn’t Technology. It’s Fear.

Someone asked me recently what the real AI trend of this year is. New models? Bigger GPUs? Agents? World models? No. The trend is fear. Same as last year. Same as the year before. Everyone is scared — just in sligh…

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The End of Slop Code (And the Birth of the One-Person Corporation)

Three weeks. That’s roughly how long it took the internet to go from “AI can autocomplete my if-statements” to “hang on… this thing can ship a product while I make tea.” And before any…

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I Built a WinAmp-ish Mini Player for YouTube Music. Because of Course I Did.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The first kind opens YouTube Music, plays a track, and simply… enjoys life. The second kind opens YouTube Music, sees the tab, sees the recommendations, sees the algorit…

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What If Life Is Just Computation… With Better PR?

I finished Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ book, What is Life? Evolution as Computation . And here’s the neat part: this “book” is also the first chapter of a larger project called What is Intelligenc…

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Full BF16 Training (Mostly) Works Now. Until It Doesn’t. Enter Stochastic Rounding.

Not long ago, “training in low precision” had the vibe of a questionable street food stall. Everyone knew it was faster and cheaper, but nobody wanted to be the person who ends up hugging the toilet at 3 a.m.…

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The 7 AI Skills That Will Decide Who Wins 2026 (And Who Becomes “That Person” Still Copy-Pasting)

2026 has barely had time to put its shoes on, and we already know how this year ends. Some people will get wildly more productive, build faster, learn faster, ship faster, and somehow still have weekends. And everyone el…

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