Summer Upgrade Week

The sun is out, the sky is clear. It’s time to get outside and disconnect — from work, at least. This summer, we’re looking at all the ways to upgrade our free time indoors and out, from smart lights for the backyard to great gadgets to bring camping to ways to wind down at the local library. … Read more

Rhett Buttle’s Take on America’s Most Underrated Policy Tool

American economic policy is facing a crisis that cannot be solved simply by an election. The biggest economic problems of the moment, workforce shortages, small business fragility, and innovation gaps between regions, are stubbornly resistant to the usual solutions. More government alone does not fix them, and more markets alone does not fix them. Something … Read more

Rethinking Design by Contract for the Age of Stateless AI Agents

Abstract: Classical Design by Contract (DbC) implicitly relies on the “Memory Axiom”—the assumption that human collaborators possess persistent contextual memory. The emergence of stateless AI agents as primary code-producers invalidates this axiom. We propose that in an agentic workflow, the contract must transcend its role as a correctness specification and become a complete, self-contained reconstruction of system … Read more

Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

‘Listen, that’s not what I’m here for.’ | Image: Apple Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that’s very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple’s new Siri won’t act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, … Read more