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When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

For engineering leaders navigating agentic transformation

The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.

I moved my 20+ year old WordPress blog off Bluehost and onto a modern static site setup with Hugo and Cloudflare Workers. What I expected to be a painful, multi-week project turned into a surprisingly...

Alt: a man is making a shocked face but there is nothing he can do

MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

Figma filed its IPO prospectus on Tuesday, as the design software vendor looks to raise money and awareness to take on Adobe.

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

Up to this point, I have been experimenting with my own home-grown agent framework, based on Simon Willison’s great LLM project to handle wrapping the different LLMs. Armed with some experien…

I finally got around to exploring local models, which is surprisingly simple to set up. I wanted to see how well a local model would perform in ToolAgent compared to the remote models (mostly Gemin…

I will likely run out of topics to cover in the “LLMs as Agents” series, eventually. I wanted to explore creating a chat UI and what I could do with embeddings but I didn’t do tha…

My fifth post on LLMs as Agents. I just it’s a series now. After refactoring ToolAgent, I decided to do the same with WebAgent, building it on the ToolAgent system. For more context and a ref…

My fifth post on LLMs as Agents. I just it’s a series now. After refactoring ToolAgent, I decided to do the same with WebAgent, building it on the ToolAgent system. For more context and a ref…