The Who's Who of AI

“Well this reads as quite the combo breaker, at least with agents powered by LLMs ~3 months ago, developer-submitted and LLM-created AGENT md files don't seem to improve task performance for python projects, but do burn ~20% more tokens arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988”

“Boris Cherny’s 5 stages of AI adoption for software teams: Gated: Restricted access to AI. Assisted: 1 agent per dev(high supervision). Parallel: 10 agents per dev(AI codes, humans verify). Autonomy: 100 agents per dev(AI verifies). AI-Native: 1,000+ agents…”

“So Boris Cherny's stages of AI adoption is cool-sounding at all, but the product he works on (Claude Code) hasn't gotten that much better since ~3-4 months ago IMO, so this is either something written as a retrospective or it's not resulting in significantl…”

“I also don’t buy the idea of “not reasoning”, mostly because I think such a concept takes many forms. But even then we’re finding that they’re internally planning ahead and not just spitting out the next word www.anthropic.com/research/tra...”

“I'm about 25% accurate on takes so my take is that this is going to be wildly successful for OpenAI ads.openai.com”

“Cool post but we got a long way to go before we get (literally) religious dedication to specs fed to agents cursor.com/blog/agent-s...”

“In case you needed any more motivation to just not touch Grok or anything by xAI www.internationalcyberdigest.com/xais-grok-bu...”

“AI goldrush confirmed www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/j...”

“Current top comment on the HN post about Meta Muse Spark 1.1 implies benchmark cheating again news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884...”

“(deep sigh) yeah www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/i-dont...”

“This was a good read on the org dynamics side of things: > It’s now a few months later, and the tokenmaxxing policies had their intended outcome: everyone is using AI to code, at least a little bit. 12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-t...”