Most people struggling with AI tools are skipping the boring part. An hour of planning saves five hours of fighting with the output.

People are building AI workflows where every step is an LLM call. Most of those steps should be code. Deterministic, repeatable, and free.

OpenClaw is genuinely impressive tech. The FOMO-driven spending spree around it is not. Discovery is real, but so is lighting money on fire.

The AI industry’s pivot to ‘pragmatism’ isn’t maturation—it’s reputation management for promises that didn’t survive contact with reality.

A new paper warns that AI bot swarms threaten democracy by manufacturing ‘false consensus.’ The problem: social media was never a meaningful proxy for public opinion. You can’t corrupt a signal that was never there.