AI
Anthropic's May 12 launch matters less as a chatbot than as a connector-driven agent stack for legal work. Plugins, MCP connectors, Microsoft 365, Managed Agents — the architectural lineage matters more than the demo.
AI
After three Sinapt manifestos, the architecture has answers. Two layers locked: retrieval and contract surfaces. The PoC has not run. Dogfood has not run. Not a victory lap — but the architecture has stopped being hand-wavy where hand-wavy kills the product.
AI
Wall Street saw $285 billion vanish in a 24-hour SaaSpocalypse. The version on my desk has been quieter — JetBrains canceled today, finance app gone last quarter, half the subscription drawer empty in a year. The user-developer collapse is personal first.
AI
The model is not the bottleneck anymore. The plumbing is well-known. What separates teams shipping transformative AI from teams shipping generic slop is a stack of less-discussed components: context, dreaming, sycophancy mitigation, verification, memory. The operator's manual.
AI
Before MCP, every AI integration was its own pidgin — improvised, simplified, just enough to get one client talking to one tool. Five floors from the first shared word to a real protocol: what MCP is, when to use it, every server worth running, the failure modes teams hit.
AI
Five floors of understanding: a kid version, an engineer version, a tools-and-cases version, an advanced version, a PhD version. By the end you'll know what RAG is, when to use it, when to run, every tool worth caring about, and the hot takes most posts won't tell you.
Biohacking
Day 11 of the protocol. First seven-plus-hour sleep in the entire dataset. New HRV ceiling, weight a kilogram and a half down, blood pressure dialed in. Then the morning NAD+ pulse hit harder at half the dose than the original at full dose.
Biohacking
Yesterday's nasal-strip article promised the Oura the next morning would be the discriminator. The discriminator landed. BDI dropped 67%, SpO₂ jumped 5.5 percentage points — both the best readings in the three-week dataset. Plus the awkward complication.
AI
A war between AI haters and AI believers. A quieter, more dangerous third group nobody's writing about: the silent passive-aggressive ones. The doomer/accelerationist schism. The Taoist farmer's reply. And why both tribes are losing to the exact same trick.
AI
Claude Opus 4.7 shipped April 18, 2026. Within 48 hours, Reddit had a 2,300-upvote regression thread. Within 5 days, Anthropic published a public postmortem. Here are the receipts: GitHub issue #50235, the AUP cop, the tokenizer tax, and what's actually better.
Biohacking
Years of nasal-spray rebound turned me into a chronic mouth breather. Then a $60 box with two magnets showed up — and 30 seconds later I was breathing through my nose for the first time in a decade.
Craft
From zero to HIPAA-compliant: a builder's guide that starts ELI5 and progresses to architecture decisions. Covered entities, BAAs, ePHI, encryption, audit logs, AWS/GCP/Azure HIPAA-eligible services, breach notification, and the 2025 NPRM that turns 'addressable' into 'required.'
