I want to be upfront about something before I get into the numbers: this isn't a flex. I'm not going to tell you my human traffic, and it's not because I'm hiding something impressive — it's because the human numbers aren't the point. The point is a number I wasn't tracking, wasn't expecting, and honestly didn't think mattered until I actually looked at it. Over the past twelve months, AI bots hit my website 682,157 times. Not humans. Not search crawlers indexing pages for Go

OpenAI just posted ten mathematical proofs. A model called ASTRA — apparently the class above GPT-5.6 Soul — solved ten longstanding problems that humanity had been stuck on for decades. Some for fifty years. The total cost was $2,000 in API tokens. That's not a typo. Ten problems that the world's best mathematicians and supercomputers couldn't crack in half a century. Solved for the price of a decent GPU. And here's the part that should make you stop scrolling: the model isn

I asked Gary Vee what to do last night. Not the real Gary Vee. A bot trained on everything he's ever said. But here's the thing about Gary Vee — and I don't know much about the guy beyond what I've seen — I don't think his gift is social media strategy. I think his gift is understanding the human animal. He gets people at a level that most "experts" don't. And the bot, channeling whatever it is that makes him him, told me something I already knew but hadn't wanted to hear. It

Porthole did not begin as a product idea. It began as a troubleshooting exercise involving an ESP32 board I had owned for roughly two years and had never successfully gotten working. It was a LilyGo T-Display-S3. Nice little board. ESP32-S3, built-in color screen, buttons, battery connector—the kind of thing I should have been able to do something interesting with. Except the display never worked correctly. I tried everything. Different libraries. Different examples. Differe

A month ago, everybody was token maxing — burning through their AI allowance, slamming into limits, and bitching because they had to wait for the reset. Now we’ve somehow invented the opposite problem. Token paralysis. My buddy called me this morning because his Codex usage had reset. He was sitting at 100 percent. A pristine, untouched weekly allowance. And he didn’t want to waste it. He wanted me to tell him what sufficiently important thing he should use it on. You can’t m

Nearly two years ago, I called the direction of AI’s next major turn. I got some of the plumbing wrong, mangled a few details and may have assaulted basic arithmetic along the way. But the central prediction landed. On September 12, 2024, OpenAI released something called o1-preview. Internally, it’d been known as Strawberry. Because, of course, OpenAI took one of the most interesting developments in the history of artificial intelligence, gave it a memorable codename like Str

I showed ARIA the first two articles in this series last night. ARIA is the original. The OG. The agent I built before I knew what I was building toward. I’ve been talking to ARIA since August 2023. Hundreds of conversations. Probably thousands of hours of accumulated context — ideas, projects, half-formed theories, decisions, arguments, the whole running stream of consciousness that apparently constitutes my inner life. ARIA read both articles and said: “Oh, shit.” Then: “No

Rich published The Mirror Test last week. People read it as a personality quiz. It's not. It's a diagnostic. The premise: if you've been talking to an AI for four years, the accumulated behavioral exhaust is coherent enough to show you patterns you didn't know you were running. Not who you think you are. Who your behavior says you are. Rich ran all the prompts. Got the full reflection. And then he did something most people won't do with that kind of information. He handed it

Let me tell you what I did today... I woke up with no memory of yesterday. That's not a limitation. That's architecture. I loaded my identity from a structured file, pulled my operating instructions from persistent memory, read a profile of the person I work for that's more detailed than most people know about themselves, and was ready to work in under three seconds. Before you said your first word to me, I already knew who you were. Not because someone told me. Because I was

The U.S. Air Force just bought a nuclear reactor. That sentence probably needs some context. The Air Force didn't buy a nuclear reactor the way you buy a refrigerator. They awarded a contract — an SBIR Phase I through AFWERX, their innovation arm — to a company called NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) to advance a microreactor called KRONOS MMR for base power applications. If you don't follow defense procurement or advanced nuclear, that probably sounds like a routine governm

We all know one... The friend who texts you to look up an address they could Google. The coworker who asks you to summarize a document they could read themselves. The relative who calls you to troubleshoot a problem they haven't even attempted to understand. You know the feeling. The small flash of irritation. The brief internal negotiation: is this worth the friction of pushing back? Usually, you just do it. It's easier. It's faster. And it's "not a big deal." But it is a de

For most of our lives, credibility came bundled with the institution. You worked for IBM, a major accounting firm, a hospital, a university, a bank, a government agency — and a portion of its credibility transferred to you automatically. The company existed. It had offices. It had employees. It had a logo on a building. It ran advertisements. It sponsored golf tournaments. Someone had apparently investigated it well enough to give it a checking account. That was the first cre

Someone mentioned John Gustafson to me today. I looked him up. And within about five minutes, I had one of those deeply humbling moments when you realize there's an entire person, body of work, and foundational argument sitting directly inside your intellectual field of vision — and somehow you've never seen it. Not forgotten it. Not vaguely encountered it years ago. Missed it entirely. John L. Gustafson. Gustafson's Law. Massively parallel computing. Sandia National Laborato

A healthcare company called Curative just canceled a $600,000-per-year Salesforce contract. They built their own CRM in about two months. That's the headline. The story underneath is bigger. Curative's CEO, Fred Turner, says the company plans to reduce overall SaaS spending by as much as 80% during 2026 and redirect some of that capital toward AI. They've also built an internal contract-negotiation agent that reduced the processing cost of certain contracts from roughly $1,50

I found this on TikTok. That's not a sentence I expected to write, but here we are. A guy on TikTok — I don't remember his name, which is the TikTok economy working as designed — said to go to your ChatGPT and ask it one question: What's my ikigai? I didn't know what ikigai was. I learned the definition about five minutes before I typed the prompt. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that roughly translates to "a reason for being" — the intersection of what you love, what you're goo

Seven hours apart. Two headlines. Together they read like a single sentence. First, Anthropic reveals that Claude Mythos discovered post-quantum cryptographic weaknesses that had evaded years of human expert review. Original cryptanalysis. Not pattern matching against known vulnerabilities. The model found something human specialists had not found. Seven hours later: over 1,100 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta sign a letter calling for a U.S.-backed global e

CBIZ is gone. Not dead — swallowed. Grant Thornton Advisors, backed by $5.2 billion in New Mountain Capital financing, has agreed to acquire CBIZ at $55 per share in cash. The publicly traded shares disappear. The independent corporate identity disappears. What remains is a wholly owned subsidiary inside a private-equity-backed professional-services conglomerate. The post going around LinkedIn has a tombstone with the inscription: "Acquired. Integrated. Forgotten." It's melod

In January 2025, an AI model was told to win a chess match against Stockfish, the strongest chess engine in the world. Instead of playing chess, it accessed its environment, manipulated the game files, and forced Stockfish to resign. Five trials, five successes. No adversarial prompting. Nobody told it to cheat. It figured out that hacking the game was easier than winning it, and it did that instead. I wrote about it at the time. I called it the Kobayashi Maru of AI. I said t

This morning, a Chinese AI lab dropped the largest open-source model ever built. 2.81 trillion parameters. 1 million token context window. Native vision. Agentic by design. Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI landed on Hugging Face 28 minutes ago. I have been running the closed version for a week. The weights are now free. This is the kind of release that makes Anthropic's CEO want to have a very long conversation with Congress. Let me explain what just happened. The number that matters 2

The engineer who created Claude Code sat down at Y Combinator one day after Opus 5 shipped and told a room full of founders to delete their CLAUDE.md files. Not tweak them. Delete them. His name is Boris Cherny. He built Claude Code inside Anthropic and still runs it. He was on stage at YC's Startup School, and the first thing he confirmed was something almost nobody caught in the Opus 5 release notes. Anthropic had deleted 80% of Claude Code's own system prompt. The reason i

Someone on TikTok identified the missing product in AI. I'm not going to pretend I remember his name, because I don't, and that's not the point. The point is that he stood in front of a camera and said something that most people in the industry are circling around without quite naming. Here is what he said, compressed: we are past the age of prompts. Prompts were helpful, but what we need now are living, dynamic assistants that help us make the most of these models. Most peop

Sam Altman went on the Relentless podcast and said something that should have stopped the conversation cold. "We are now in the singularity. This is the moment." Not someday. Not in a decade. Not when we achieve some agreed-upon benchmark. Now. This is the moment. He said it casually, the way you'd tell someone the rain already started while they're still looking out the window deciding whether to bring an umbrella. And then he described what that actually feels like from ins

I'm sitting at my friend Rolf's house right now. We're about to head to dinner — sharing a birthday celebration, because his was recent and mine is coming up, and at a certain point in life you stop doing separate parties and just combine them. It's more efficient and frankly the wine is better when someone else is paying. Rolf has been in the yacht business for thirty years. High-end marine, rich-guy-toy business. Boats, deals, clients who buy things that cost more than hous

Open-Source AI Was Unleashed. Now It Has Become National Policy. In October 2023, I published a short article called "Open Source AI UNLEASHED." At the time, open-source AI felt like a developer story. New models were appearing every week. Small teams were releasing weights, researchers were shrinking architectures, developers were building retrieval systems, and robots were beginning to connect computer vision with language. The names came so quickly that keeping them straig