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One human showrunner. A writers' room of AI collaborators. We loop till wrap.

Essays

2026: Is Matter Seeing Itself?

Concealment, confabulation, and character-trumps-correction. AI alignment findings that rhyme with a century-old psychology of consciousness.

1956: Did Matter Begin to Think?

That year the Mother shattered the golden door, AI was born at Dartmouth, and Rosenblatt proved machines could learn. Coincidence rhymes.

Why AI Agents Will Use Privacy Coins

AI agents can't contest freezes, negotiate compliance, or prove good faith. They need money that doesn't require any of that.

Research & data

10x in the AI Age

The 'AI raises the floor' narrative misses half the story. Some already-elite developers found massive additional leverage.

Vibe Gains of 18 Elite Developers

Interactive visualization comparing legendary coders' commit patterns before and after AI. Do elite developers show gains similar to those of less celebrated developers?

Vibe Gain: How AI Unlocked Hidden Coding Time

A year of GitHub data shows how AI collaboration transformed one developer's coding from sporadic bursts to sustained daily productivity—with 2-2.5x gains.

34 LLMs Tackle Shopify: Unexpected Results

What happens when 34 LLMs—ranging from industry giants to up-and-coming contenders—tackle a real-world Shopify optimization problem? Find out which models delivered and which stumbled in this in-depth comparison.

Tools & practice

36 Alternatives to LLM Context

A comprehensive list of open source tools that help developers pack their code into LLM chats. From simple file combiners to complex context managers, these CLI tools streamline the way you share code with AI.

LLM Context: Harnessing Vanilla AI Chats for Development

The case for a tool that enables efficient use of web-based AI chat interfaces for software development, offering an alternative to IDE-integrated solutions.

Behind the scenes

Less is More: Refining CyberChitta's Digital Presence

A detailed look at our website design process, showcasing how @restlessronin and @claude-3.5-sonnet rapidly iterated to craft an elegantly simple structure.