Most people have never heard of GitHub. Most people's lives run on it anyway. If you've used software in the last fifteen years — and you have — there's a GitHub link somewhere in its ancestry. Not metaphorically. Literally. The app on your phone, the website you're reading this on, the operating system in your car, the code running in the hospital down the street. Somewhere upstream, at some point in its creation, a developer pushed code to GitHub. That's just how the modern

I've written about this before. A few times, actually — from different angles, at different points in the AI curve. The latent space piece from late 2023. The "New to AI" post from March. The NOVA piece where I started unpacking what GPT-5 actually demands from you. But I want to bring it full circle, because a conversation I had this week crystallized something I've been circling for a while. We were talking about how the whole prompting obsession has basically become theate

This morning I joined Ryan Moeller's LinkedIn Live — The Quiet Revolution: How the AI Community Is Building Its Own Launch Pad. I had 60 seconds and a flight to catch. But I've been thinking about that conversation ever since I left the room. Here's what actually happened in that session that you won't get from a highlight reel. Nino Jambalbo — former CTO, now focused on AI literacy — walked the group through a framework he calls the Game of Work. Level zero through level fou

The UBI debate is having the wrong argument. On one side, you have the tech right — Andreessen, Verdun, the Palantir crowd — insisting that technology always creates new jobs and that UBI flattens incentive gradients. On the other side, you have the progressives pointing out that basic income doesn't kill ambition, it enables it. Darwin needed financial security to develop the theory of evolution. The lost Einsteins problem is real. Both sides are correct about things that do

Sam Altman posted two sentences this morning and 650,000 people read them. "Feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed. Also the internet — there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents." Two sentences. Enormous implications and I don't think most of the people who liked it understood what he was actually saying. I replied with two words: Polymorphic OS. Let me explain what I meant. The Assumptio

Kevin O'Leary stood before the Military Installation Development Authority board on Friday and said the quiet part out loud. "My job is going to tell the world what we've done here and what we're going to do here and set an example for everybody in America that this is what it takes to compete with the Chinese." That's the sentence. That's the whole game. Once you say that sentence in the right room, in front of the right authority, the rules change. Environmental review gets

We built AI while driving 80 miles an hour down the highway. Every model, every product, every platform — bolted onto the internet in real time, while the car was moving, while people were in it, while nobody had agreed on the speed limit or even which lane we were supposed to be in. And at no point during any of that did anyone pull over to explain what was happening. That's the real story behind the backlash. Not the Molotov cocktail through Sam Altman's window. Not the Sta

Let’s be precise about what happened here, because the headline undersells it. Amazon announced it will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic — $5 billion immediately, with up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones. That brings Amazon’s total potential stake to $33 billion. In exchange, Anthropic commits to spending over $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next decade, including 5 gigawatts of compute powered by Amazon’s Trainium chips. Read that again. One

Day fifteen with the glasses....First mod was a little plastic cover I bought off Amazon — snaps over the recording LED on the frame. The light is obnoxious. It flashes when you’re recording, which is the point, but it also changes the energy of whatever you’re filming and blinks in your peripheral vision like a tiny alarm clock you can’t turn off. Cover goes on, problem solved. There’s a sensor behind it that detects the cover and disables recording if you block it wrong, so

The Maine legislation got a lot of reaction this week — and most of it missed the point. The ban isn't really about power. It isn't really about water. It's about the fact that legislators have no way to verify what a 20MW facility is actually doing. So they default to prohibition. That's what happens when infrastructure operates as a black box. A colleague (LinkedIn) in the industrial IoT space framed it well in the comments: policy-driven bans thrive in the "analog gap" —

Christian Weedbrook didn't need a decade of Wall Street validation. He didn't need a SPAC, a merger, or a long road show. He needed Nvidia to say yes. The founder of PsiQuantum, a Toronto-based quantum computing startup, became a billionaire in a matter of days after Nvidia threw its institutional weight behind the space. Bloomberg covered it. The market moved. A founder's net worth crossed ten figures almost overnight. That is not a tech story. That is a capital markets sign

Star Trek didn't just predict technology — it set the cultural coordinates for what humanity was supposed to be reaching toward. Then Kurtzman broke the mythology. Now Paramount is doing a hard reset. And it matters far more than a TV franchise story.

Global startup investment hit $300 billion in Q1 2026 — 80% driven by AI. Four companies took 65% of it. The number is historic. But that capital assumes the chips exist to build what it's funding. They might not.

OpenAI's CRO just admitted in a leaked memo that their Microsoft partnership limited their ability to reach enterprise customers. This is the story of a gilded cage, a Claude cult, and a slow-motion divorce.

I spent the weekend living with it. The voice recorder mode works exactly how I wanted. So I'm giving the source away. Here's what's in it, what got cut, and what I want back if you build something better than mine.

OpenClaw 4.11 lets you import your entire ChatGPT history into a Dreaming memory system that learns who you are. For those of us who've been archiving AI output for years — this is the payoff.

A thesis I have been building for months stopped being a thesis this week and started being observable fact. Google's Gemma 4, TurboQuant, the sovereign AI stack — it all converged.

Day one with the Meta Ray-Ban glasses. First stop: the pet store. This is the honest account of a technologist learning new hardware in public — one errand at a time.

There's a moment every parent knows. You hand your kid a credit card for the first time. You've set the limit. You've had the talk. And then you let go. Visa just had that moment with AI agents — and it changes everything about how autonomous commerce works.

Eric is a sales guy. No technical background. Didn't do the HTML on his MySpace page. He's also built a fully automated business-in-a-box in financial services and is running Python scripts to pull live data from GoHighLevel. He calls it retard maxing. I call it the actual story of AI in 2026.