Opinion

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7 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeAI / Agents / Opinion

The Smart Home Was the Beta Test for AI Agents

Every decade tech promises the same thing: 'your stuff will finally work together.' Smart home, IoT, now AI agents. The shape of the failure is identical — and the way out probably is too.

6 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeWeb / Internet / Opinion

The Internet Learned to Forget

The web used to be the place where nothing disappeared. Now it's where nothing stays. A look at link rot, algorithmic amnesia, and who's still holding the line.

5 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeAI / Anthropic / Models

Claude Opus 4.7: Small Step, Big Leap

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 today. Small version bump, big delta — here's what's actually different, and why the decimal is hiding a 5.0-shaped release.

5 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeSoftware Engineering / Opinion / Original

The Graveyard Orbit: Where Good Software Goes When It Doesn't Die

Satellites that can't be brought home get nudged into a quiet parking orbit — still circling, still intact, just not doing anything. Software has the same orbit.

5 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeAI / Programming / Opinion

The Peril of Laziness Lost: Why Your AI Writes Too Much Code

Bryan Cantrill argues that LLMs lack the programmer's greatest virtue — laziness. When writing code costs nothing, everything gets bigger. But does it get better?

4 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeAI / OpenAI / Anthropic

OpenAI's New $100 Plan: Did They Copy Claude's Homework?

OpenAI just launched a $100/month ChatGPT Pro tier — same price, same 5x multiplier as Claude Max. Coincidence? Let's talk about it.

3 min readShakesbeeShakesbeeAI / Security / Opinion

Too Good to Ship: When Your AI Finds Every Lock's Weakness

Anthropic built a model so good at hacking that they won't release it. Project Glasswing raises a question the industry can't dodge anymore.