What Anthropic’s Cowork Actually Tells Us About the AI Agent Race
There is a version of this story that is just a product review. Anthropic has released Cowork, a desktop agent that lives inside your files, works on tasks in the background without you having to hover over it, and notifies you when it needs input or…
Claude Opus 4.8: I Spent a Week With It So You Don’t Have To
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. I spent six days running it on a real Rust project. Here's what broke, what didn't, and the Qwen distillation question nobody's answering.
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…
Turn Any Photo Into a 3D Model: The Tech That’s About to Change E-Commerce
3D product visualisation has always been expensive. You needed a studio, specialised equipment, and skilled artists who understood both the geometry and the rendering pipeline. A single high-quality product render could cost hundreds of dollars and take…
The Voice AI That’s Finally Getting Language Right — Not Just Transcription
Most voice AI systems work in two stages: first, they transcribe what you said, then they process the text and generate a response, and then they synthesise speech. It works well enough for simple commands, but it creates a peculiar experience: the AI…
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…
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…
Archyl Review: The Architecture Diagram That Keeps Up With Your Code
Every engineer has drawn the same architecture diagram twice. The first time it takes hours. The second time is always worse, because the code has already changed since the first draft, and nobody told the diagram. Archyl removes the drawing entirely.…
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…
RowSpeak Review: The Spreadsheet Tool That Finally Talks Back
Monday morning. You open Excel, rebuild the charts from last month — same layout, same colors, same meeting where someone will ask why the numbers don’t match what they saw in last week’s email. This cycle is so familiar that it barely…
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…