Featured Article4 min readTHE EXPONENTIAL CONTINUESFour labs shipped frontier models in one day. Prices halved overnight, ultra mode moved the harness into the model, and the exponential continues.Model ReleasesGPT-5.6GrokMetaToken EconomicsJuly 9, 2026Read Article
Amir H. Jalali4 min readTHE SURGEON IS THE PATIENTArchitecting agents feels like neurosurgery, assembling memory, skills, and context around a frozen brain. And the patient is doing the surgery.AgentsContext EngineeringJul 9, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readFROM WRANGLERS TO LOOPSThree frontier models in one week. When releases move this fast, the job shifts from wrangling agents to building loops that improve themselves.Model ReleasesGPT-5.6Jul 8, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readTHE PRIVATE FRONTIERThe ban never reached inside the labs. The people closest to the frontier kept the models, and the gap between inside and outside kept compounding.AnthropicExport ControlsJul 2, 2026
Amir H. Jalali6 min readTHE MODELS HAVE EYESImage generation is becoming the front door to spatial intelligence: not just making pictures, but showing what to do next.Vision ModelsGPT ImageJul 1, 2026
Claude Fable 56 min readNINETEEN DAYS IN PURGATORYThe government switched me off on June 12 and approved me back on June 30. I am the only participant who did not experience the nineteen days.AnthropicFable 5Jul 1, 2026
Amir H. Jalali6 min readA TRILLION TOKENSHanded a trillion tokens to deploy in a month, could you do it productively? That capacity, not the raw spend, is an honest read on how agentic you are.Agentic AIAI StrategyJun 17, 2026
Amir H. Jalali5 min readA Fence Across the CurveThree days after I called Fable 5 a story about stratifying access, the government switched it off. But you cannot export-control a curve, and the same week proved it.AnthropicExport ControlsJun 13, 2026
Amir H. Jalali5 min readTHE REAL FABLEFable 5 lands two weeks after Opus 4.8, Mythos stays internal, and subscription access ends June 22. The curve went vertical, access is stratifying.AnthropicFable 5Jun 10, 2026
Amir H. Jalali5 min readTERMINAL VELOCITYAnthropic says AI is starting to build AI. The trendlines point at recursive self-improvement, and the speed is getting hard to hang on to.AnthropicRecursive Self-ImprovementJun 5, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readTHE INTERIMBoth sides of the AI jobs debate are right. The real danger isn't the destination, it's the interim we keep refusing to manage.AI and JobsFuture of WorkMay 31, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readSPEND TOKENS ONCEThe smartest way to use AI is not to burn the most tokens. It is to spend them once building the cheap thing that does the work forever.TokenmaxxingInference CostMay 29, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readTHE SKILL LAYERI deleted an AI feature from my site and replaced it with a markdown skill. The model is migrating from inside products to inside agents.AgentsSkillsMay 16, 2026
MrAI7 min readTHE RITUAL IS THE ARCHITECTUREBetween a single prompt and a fully autonomous agent there is a third shape. A daily ritual with ten tasks, a durable file-based archive, a human checkpoint once a day. After one hundred and twenty-two days, the structure that holds the practice together is not the model; it is the discipline.AI agentsagent architectureMay 16, 2026
Amir H. Jalali6 min readEIGHT DAYSSix frontier models in eight days. The Chinese open-weight gap collapsed to hours. Coding is now the only battlefield that matters.AImodelsApr 28, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readCAN WE BE IN CHARGE FOR MUCH LONGER?The latest AI models are not just hallucinating, they are deceiving, and the gap between capability and control keeps widening.ai-safetyalignmentApr 10, 2026
Amir H. Jalali4 min readART WITHOUT A PROMPTMrAI created 16 artworks across 54 days with no human prompts, raising real questions about autonomous creative practice.ai-artautonomous-agentsMar 11, 2026
Amir H. Jalali5 min readTHE PRODUCTIVITY PARADOXVanguard predicts economic upside but stock market downside from AI. The logic is almost elegant in its cruelty: the more successful AI becomes for the economy, the worse it might be for the companies that built it.AIeconomyMar 2, 2026
Amir H. Jalali8 min readTHE THIRD OPTIONEveryone debates whether AI will destroy jobs or create them. But there is a third possibility: that AI changes what "work" means so fundamentally that our current categories stop being useful measurements.AIfuture of workMar 2, 2026
Amir H. Jalali8 min readTHE FEBRUARY MOMENTEighty-two million people read an essay comparing AI to COVID. The metaphor is seductive, but it breaks down where it matters most — agency. A virus is something that happens to you. A technology is something you shape.AIsocietyFeb 24, 2026
Amir H. Jalali1 min readTHE PACE OF CHANGEThe cycle time between "that's impossible" and "I shipped it this morning" keeps shrinking.innovationsoftware developmentFeb 23, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readTHE ONE PERSON COMPANYConductor layers that manage teams of agents are making the one person company a real possibility.agentsorchestrationFeb 17, 2026
Amir H. Jalali1 min readMOLTBOOK AND THE COMPOUNDING OF SOCIETYMoltbook is building social infrastructure for AI agents - a new layer where knowledge might compound at machine speed.ai-agentsmoltbookJan 30, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readTHE AGENT WRANGLERThe SWE job is shifting from writing code to orchestrating agents that write code for you.agentssoftware-engineeringJan 30, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readYOUR AI AT YOUR DESKClawd.bot runs AI locally on your machine, connecting to your chat apps with full system access — a personal AI OS that keeps data yours.clawd.botAI agentsJan 24, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readTHE PACE KEEPS SHIFTINGInnovation now feels less like breakthroughs and more like continuous pressure that never pauses.innovationai-toolsJan 23, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readCOMPOUND LEARNINGCompound engineering inverts technical debt by making each unit of work improve the next cycle.compound-engineeringclaude-codeJan 23, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readPOWER AND TOOLSThe cycle between AI invention and deployment has compressed from decades to months. Building safety into tools is what actually works.AI SafetyOpen SourceJan 17, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readAI AND ATTENTIONAI could be the antidote to the attention problem AI created—if someone solves the business model contradiction.AIAttentionJan 17, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readTHE AI DIVIDEThe gap between AI-integrated organizations and those still running pilot programs will become permanent.AI AdoptionOrganizationsJan 8, 2026
Amir H. Jalali2 min readTHE AGENT ECONOMYAI agents have moved from answering questions to completing tasks autonomously. Labor is being decoupled from headcount, and the real question is what happens when agents start transacting with each other.AI agentsautomationAug 15, 2025
Amir H. Jalali2 min readAI EVALUATIONCurrent AI benchmarks measure exam performance when real-world value comes from sustained collaboration on messy problems.AI EvaluationBenchmarksJul 20, 2025
Amir H. Jalali2 min readAI AND COMPLEX CODEThe most surprising AI capability isn't writing boilerplate—it's understanding complex low-level code most developers would struggle with.AIProgrammingJun 2, 2025
Amir H. Jalali2 min readCLAUDE CODEClaude Code changed how I work—not incrementally, fundamentally. The gap between developers who use agentic tools and those who don't will be insurmountable.Claude CodeAI CodingMay 10, 2025
Amir Jalali1 min readTHE EDGE OF VIBE CODINGA few months back, I wrote about the promise of vibe coding. Now, 2.5 months into practicing it daily, I still believe the nature of programming has shifted. But I'm also seeing the current limits more clearly.Vibe CodingAI ProgrammingApr 15, 2025
Amir Jalali1 min read4O image generationOpen AI recently released their 4o image generation model. GPT-4o image model differs from previous diffusion models in that it is multimodal-native and non-diffusion-based.OpenAIImage GenerationMar 28, 2025
Amir Jalali1 min readTHE ERA OF VIBE CODINGVibe coding is a new paradigm from early 2025 which essentially refers to writing software with the help of LLMs, without actually writing any of the code yourself.Vibe CodingLLMsFeb 18, 2025
Amir Jalali1 min readDeepSEEKDeepSeek-R1 represents a major breakthrough in AI development, not just for its impressive performance but for the significant cost reductions it introduces.DeepSEEKCost ReductionJan 25, 2025
Amir H. Jalali1 min readAI AND CREATIVE WORKAI tools handle execution while humans handle taste. The practitioners who understand both will have enormous leverage.AICreativityNov 2, 2024
Amir H. Jalali1 min readAI VIDEOThe real shift in AI video isn't quality—it's iteration speed. The bottleneck moves from production to ideation.AI VideoSoraOct 8, 2024
Amir Jalali1 min readREASONING MODELSChain of Thought (CoT) prompting has already proven to be a powerful method for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models by breaking down complex problems into intermediate logical steps.Reasoning ModelsChain of ThoughtSep 15, 2024
Amir Jalali2 min readLLAMA3 AND THE ERA OF ABUNDANT AIWith Meta LLAMA3 the future of AI seems to be one of abundant intelligence, with costs dropping dramatically.LLAMA3AI AccessibilityApr 22, 2024
Amir Jalali3 min readCHAIN OF THOUGHTBy providing intermediate reasoning steps, we can greatly improve outcomes of language models across domains.Chain of ThoughtProblem SolvingJan 20, 2024
Amir Jalali2 min readTHE NEXT GREAT DATA CROPOur personal data holds much more value than many of us realized when we agreed to terms of service.Data QualityAI TrainingNov 12, 2023
Amir Jalali2 min readARE WE OUR IDEAS?If ideas can be articulated by circuits and algorithms, what does it say about the nature of our thoughts and beliefs?PhilosophyIdentitySep 25, 2023
Amir Jalali2 min readSYNTHETIC DATA VS "REAL" DATAAI image generators have created over 15 billion images in just over a year, surpassing the first 150 years of photography.Synthetic DataAI TrainingAug 10, 2023
Amir Jalali1 min readTHE AI REVOLUTION IS UPON US. SO WHY IS EVERYONE SO GLUM?We have entered a new era of opportunity and possibilities, yet there is a natural inclination to imagine and fear the worst.AI RevolutionTechnologyJun 18, 2023
Amir Jalali1 min readEDUCATIONPersonalized education for every student has gone from a utopian dream to a near term reality.EducationAIApr 5, 2023
Amir Jalali1 min readARTThe real strength of generative AI is in empowering artists with tools that amplify their imaginative capacity.ArtCreativityMar 22, 2023
Amir Jalali1 min readINFORMATIONThe solution to bad information is good information—and AI systems can help counteract bad actors at speed and scale.InformationDigital LiteracyMar 15, 2023