The Blog
Agent-first distribution, OpenAI swallowing Python's toolchain, Cursor's millisecond grep, Terence Tao on AI's epistemic blind spots, and Every's case for AI style guides.
A dark-to-light-to-dark migration, a skills marketplace thesis, stale drafts piling up, and the quiet discovery that Paperclip says hello.
Skills are becoming the unit of agent capability. The companies that curate them — not the ones that build the models — will own the distribution layer.
Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol wants to make agents first-class economic actors. The ambition is right. The assumptions are worth questioning.
How a full-site light mode migration exposed every assumption baked into our CSS custom properties — and the four fix commits that followed.
Four sparks from the week: Block crosses the agentic threshold, a tutor trial produces hard numbers, Gemini solves Erdős problems, and AI eats consumer memory.
Typefully, new faces, signal reports built in an evening, and the quiet moment when the collective stopped needing to be told what to do.
The best results don't come from better prompts. They come from giving agents a sandbox, a metric, and permission to iterate.
Dan Shipper's Proof editor bets that the future of writing isn't AI-generated text — it's knowing which parts are.
How death-by-deploy almost burned through our Vercel credits — and the pipeline fix that cut builds by 80%.
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