Microsoft’s New Coding AI Is Fast — But There’s a Catch
I demo’d a new AI coding tool at work last week. The dev team was impressed for about twenty minutes. Then we hit the wall. Microsoft dropped MAI-Code-1-Flash into GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise last week. General availability, wide…
This Open-Source Coding AI Writes Its Own Training — And Almost Matches Claude Opus
I spent an embarrassing amount of last weekend trying to get aLlama 3 fine-tuned to stop outputting Python comments in Mandarin. Not a great use of a Saturday. But it reminded me why the news from DeepReinforce caught my eye: they released a coding model…
AI’s Dirty Secret: Power Semiconductors Are the Bottleneck Nobody Is Talking About
Ask anyone following the AI boom where the real bottleneck is, and they’ll say GPUs or data centers. But underneath all that computing power, another shortage is starting to bite — and it might be harder to solve. Power semiconductors regulate and…
AI Video Is Getting Seriously Fast — And This New Model Is Why It Matters
I spent $40 on AI video generation last month and got about 90 seconds of usable footage. Most of it was glitchy garbage — faces that melted halfway through, hands with seven fingers, backgrounds that rearranged themselves between frames. The 10 seconds…
Ideogram 4 Open Source: The AI Image Generator That Finally Matches GPT-Image and Midjourney
The AI image generation space just got a serious shake-up. Ideogram just dropped Ideogram 4 as an open weights model — 9 billion parameters — and you can run it locally on your own machine with LoRA fine-tuning support and ComfyUI workflows. That’s…
DBOS Review: A Workflow Engine That Runs on Postgres Instead of Custom Infrastructure
If you’ve worked on microservices that need to coordinate multi-step processes — validate a payment, then send a receipt, then update inventory, then notify the user — you’ve probably encountered Temporal. It’s a workflow engine that…
The Open Source AI Singularity Was Supposed to Be Here by Christmas. It’s Not.
I almost retweeted a chart at 2am last week. Open-source LLMs closing the gap with closed models — benchmarked on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trend line pointing straight at December 2026. Six months to parity. Open-source AI utopia by…
The U.S. Government Is Now Deciding Who Gets to Use the Most Powerful AI
The U.S. government is now requiring approval before companies can give users access to the most powerful version of ChatGPT. This is a meaningful shift in how the government approaches frontier AI — and it’s worth understanding what’s…
Daisy.so Review: One Product Photo In, a Full Marketing Campaign Out
There’s a production bottleneck that most content teams know well: you have one product photo, and you need a full campaign — main visuals, social posts, video clips, carousel ads — and the designer assigned to it has three other things due this…
Murmur Review: One Chat Window for All Your AI Coding Agents
I run Claude Code and Codex in parallel on different parts of the same project. Each one is excellent at what it does. The problem isn’t capability — it’s coordination. I’m switching between windows, copying context from one to the…
AgentBrush Review: The Missing Piece in Your AI Coding Workflow That Nobody Talks About
Claude Code ships fast. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now, and the code quality has genuinely impressed me — it thinks a few steps ahead, catches edge cases I would’ve missed, and the terminal workflow is clean. For a developer…
Why Every AI Demo Sounds Amazing and Every Real Deployment Falls Flat
Every AI product you’ve seen demoed looks incredible. Every AI product you’ve actually used in the real world has failed you in some embarrassing way. One developer building an AI receptionist for small businesses put it plainly on Hacker…