AI Intelligence Archive

I have to come clean. Speaking at APIWorld this past week wasn’t actually my first talk acceptance....

One month after the queue essay: findings file themselves, rounds are judged on the contract, the morning brief reads like a PA's note, and a refused write is never silent.

The permission prompt only fired when I was watching. A hook now refuses force pushes, shared-tree resets and root deletes in every mode, and redirects the session instead of waiting for me.

296 puzzle cards, each judged by a model that sees the story but never the brief, the finding or the old card. Eleven waves, and the brief turned out to be the lever.

The voice engine flags it, the site refuses it, the drafter is forbidden it, and 117 instances were rewritten by hand. Then the gate blocked my own deploys for a day.

Most conversational AI speech assistants have a fatal flaw: crippling latency. You ask a question,...

A backend team shipped a local-first coding agent that kept repository secrets on each developer...

The lab was quiet except for keyboards. A teaching assistant walked the aisle of a Saturday workshop...

Open any 'agentic AI' repo trending on GitHub this month and you'll find the same shape: a while...

Same base model, same sampling, entirely different coworker. The diff was 40 lines of English, and here they are.

On August 1 I published a report whose headline finding was that frontier LLM API prices are...

Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review...

How I built REVA for Track 3 of the Razorpay AI Buildathon 2026—and why deterministic guardrails...

A response to Marina Wyss's How I'd Learn Machine Learning in 2026, from someone who arrived at the...

Most memory demos ask whether a later fact can be retrieved. That is a useful start, but it leaves...

Flash on 27 August, the flagship on 28 August. Real quant sizes, why the bigger model has better tooling support than the smaller one, and the default that silently makes it feel slow.

As of 09/02/2026, the ActorTemplate object no longer exists. It was created, as the name suggests, to...

When an agent regression judge says “accept,” the interesting question is often not the score. It is...

Retries are comforting until the process dies at the worst possible moment: after an external action...

Earlier this week, an engineer at Spotify published numbers that should make everyone running an AI...

I started collecting ancient and world coins this year. It got out of hand fast, the way these...

This is a submission for the Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition. Have you ever thought: “I...

Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own...

I don’t just want to train a model in a Jupyter notebook and call it an ML project. I want to...

“Let’s split it into agents” has become the AI equivalent of “let’s make it a...

A familiar production failure looks like this: an AI support agent reads a ticket, decides the...

Your team decides to add an AI agent to your Laravel application. The initial plan seems...

The agent did not fail because the model was stupid. It failed because a CRM tool returned a 502,...

Remote MCP servers are shipping fast, and a lot of them are generated straight out of an OpenAPI spec...

Your team ships an internal AI assistant grounded on company documents. The demo is excellent: ask...

An AI can recall a fact when asked and miss it when it matters. InMind separates retrieval from application—and suggests a better way to test agent memory.

Everyone's OpenClaw runs on a cloud VM they rent from someone else's computer. Read that sentence...

Ask a guardrails library how often it is wrong and you will usually get silence, or a benchmark of...

RAG Over YouTube Playlists: From Video URLs to Cited Answers in 60 Lines In the previous...

I run seven agents over the same domain. They have never once sent each other a message. That was...

There is a problem with most benchmarks for coding agents: they are not software development. They...

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built VeriAid is a...

Last week a colleague shared a project with me as a zip file. I did what most of us do now: I dropped...

ProofGive: a donation tracker that protects the people it's helping Submission for the DEV...

A colleague recently asked me how he would run financial analysis with AI over the books of an...