Artificial Intelligence

For most of its history, software borrowed its language from construction. Architecture. Blueprints. Foundations. Structural code. The metaphor was accurate for the work as it was actually done…

Charles Stross opens Accelerando with a man crossing a plaza in front of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, sunlight coming off the canal, his eyeballs powered up. Manfred Macx is a “venture altruist.” He…

Autonomous and semi-autonomous coding agents are now standard equipment in professional software development. The 2025 DORA research program, drawing on survey responses from nearly five thousand…

Why the instinct to prohibit artificial intelligence in the classroom is failing everyone it claims to protect — and what an honest curriculum would look like instead.

On Vector Ethics, four thinkers who never saw a computer, and how to calibrate an instrument that keeps failing in two opposite directions

Between the corporations optimizing us out of the org chart and the governments optimizing us out of the decision, there is a third path: bound the machine, and let institutions be human.

If the mind is an ocean, we spend our lives at the surface. Beneath the waterline, an enormous amount of processing carries on without our knowledge: the visual system resolving a face from a…

I performed an interesting thought experiment today and gave Anthropic Claude’s new Fable 5 model something to chew on. I have a Pro subscription and Fable was recently made available again under my…

There is a scene in a video game that has no business being as profound as it is. A clockwork woman — a machine built by human hands, granted senses, memory, and a formidable capacity for reason …

In early May 2026, two University of Toronto students, Luthira Abeykoon and Krish Chhajer, built something unusual. They took a tiny, simplified language model — the kind used to teach students how…