The Reality Check ClickHouse just dropped a study that every executive should read: LLMs are great at some things, but basing your infrastructure on them? Too much, too soon. They tested five leading models (Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-o3, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the newly released GPT-5) against real observability scenarios. The verdict? We're nowhere near the autonomous operations future Silicon
The 800 Million Weekly ChatGPT Users Who Are Just Getting Started Here's something that should excite everyone: ChatGPT just hit 800 million weekly active users. That's one in ten humans on Earth. Adoption faster than the world wide web. 18 billion messages every single week. And the really wild part: we haven't even scratched the surface of what's possible. OpenAI's latest research shows that ~
I finished an English series on the way I think ordinary people can start using AI for real work. The point is not to become an AI expert first. The point is to have one place where you can say what you want, give the tool access to the right folder, and check the result. Anything important still needs a human pause: publishing, deleting, paying, or authorizing. My preferred starting point is simp
In Q1 2026, our 120-person engineering org increased base salaries by 30% across all IC levels, and by year-end, voluntary dev churn dropped from 24% to 12% — a 50% reduction that saved us $4.2M in annual recruiting and onboarding costs. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (218 points) I am worried about Bun (372 points) Talking to strangers at the gym (1080 points) Pulitzer
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the default standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and APIs. Governed by the Linux Foundation since early 2025 and adopted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Vercel, MCP is the USB-C port of the AI ecosystem — one protocol that lets any LLM application talk to any tool server. But there's a gap between reading the spec and building somethi
If you have spent any real time with Claude Code, you have probably noticed the same problem I did. You write the same instructions in the prompt every other day. "Use four-space indentation here." "Always run the linter after edits." "Format commit messages this way." After the third or fourth repeat, it stops feeling like a prompt and starts feeling like missing config. Skills are how Claude Cod
Adding email and calendar tools to an AI agent is mostly an exercise in restraint. Give it 50 commands and the agent gets confused. Give it 5 carefully-chosen ones and it punches above its weight. After running agents against the Nylas CLI for a few months, these are the five I keep coming back to. Each gets exposed via MCP (nylas mcp install) so the agent can call them directly. nylas email send
You ssh'd into a fresh Linux box and you need to send an email. Maybe a backup completed. Maybe a deploy succeeded. Maybe a process crashed and you want a stack trace in your inbox. The traditional path: install Postfix, edit main.cf, configure a smart relay, generate SASL credentials, restart the daemon, and pray nothing else on the box uses port 25. That is the 30-minute path. The 60-second path