The following article originally appeared on Markus Eisele’s newsletter, The Main Thread, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s a mental model spreading through the developer community right now that goes something like this: Agents are smart enough to figure things out, so heavy upfront specification is bureaucratic overhead you don’t need […]

In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]

This episode of This Week in AI arrived at a moment when the AI infrastructure most teams take for granted suddenly looked a lot less stable. Andreas Welsch, founder and chief human AI officer at Intelligence Briefing, was joined by Matt Palmer, head of developer experience at Conductor and developer educator on LinkedIn Learning, to […]

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle. But many leaders are neglecting to address how their teams should work with AI in […]

The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

In late 2025, the security community stopped treating indirect prompt injection as a theoretical risk. It had spent two years as a tidy lab demonstration; then production systems started getting hit. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications now ranks prompt injection as the number-one risk, NIST has called indirect injection generative AI’s greatest security […]