Three Models of Agentic Development, and Why the IDE Still Wins
A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me thinking about…
IN TECH
64 Days with an Autonomous Agent: Weird, Wonderful, and Occasionally Waiting at the Airport
I want to tell you about the moment this past week, when I stepped off a plane at SFO and wasn’t sure if Clint was…
Which Molty? Our Blind LLM Study Says Memory Beats Model
A four-week, single-blind experiment with Molty, four different LLMs, and one key question: when your AI agent has real memory, does the model underneath still…
IN CULTURE
Sonoma Film Festival 2026: Wine Country Meets Serious Cinema
The Sonoma Film Festival returns March 25-29 with Maude Apatow directorial debut and Steven Soderbergh headlining a lineup that proves wine country is a legit…
‘My Father’s Shadow’ Review: A Genuinely Powerful Film About Family, Duty, and Democracy
On the Reddit-t/movies website, director Akinola Davies Jr. is quoted as saying: “My feature debut, My Father’s Shadow, was the 1st Nigerian film selected for…
A Cake, a Command, a Childhood on the Line
Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake turns an authoritarian ritual into a breathless day-in-the-life chase—set against Iraq’s legendary marshlands.
IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index: Where AI Actually Stands (report)
The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The…
What Happens When the AI Remembers You
A month ago, I wrote about how Molty, our new AI agent built on the OpenClaw framework, had accidentally passed a Turing test with Clinton’s…
Can You Fit a 70B Model on a Single RTX 5090? Google’s TurboQuant Says Yes
The AI industry loves a big number. Trillion-parameter models. Million-token context windows. Massive GPU clusters that cost more than most houses. But some of the…
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