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What Actually Shipped in AI's First Half of 2026 (Not What Was Announced)
Separating the demos from the deployments. A midyear reality check from someone keeping score.
Stop Calling It a Copilot. It's a Very Eager Intern.
The flying metaphor was always wrong. A better one explains why you still have to check its homework.
The Strangest AI Use Case I Saw This Year Was a Law Firm's Fax Bot
Forget reasoning breakthroughs. The most valuable AI deployment I encountered handled a machine most people forgot existed.
AI Customer Support Is Good Enough to Be Annoying
The bots got fluent. They also got very good at not solving your problem. A user's field guide.
The Benchmark Industrial Complex Is Lying to You
Every model "beats GPT on this benchmark." Almost none of those numbers mean what the tweet implies.
Small Teams Are Beating the Big Labs at Weird Niche AI
The frontier models get the press. The profitable AI is happening in boring verticals with three employees.
The Death of the Tech Blog, Written by an AI
The sites that taught a generation to code are being buried under generated listicles. A small eulogy, with footnotes.
AI Coding Tools Made Me Slower Before They Made Me Faster
The productivity curve for AI-assisted development is not up and to the right. It dips first.
The Models Got Cheaper. The Bills Didn't.
Inference costs fell off a cliff. So why is your AI line item bigger than ever?
I Read 50 AI Job Postings. The Pattern Was Ugly.
Everyone is hiring for AI. Almost nobody can say what the job is. A field report from the listings.