The Newsroom.
Articles, signals, and field notes from the agentic factory floor.
FEATURED · JULY 8, 2026
Our job was never to write code. It was to solve people's problems.
Richard Campbell says the job was never to write code — it was to solve people's problems. I've spent four months building a value-investing tool only I use, and that line forced the question underneath it: am I building, or am I hiding?
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JUL 6 · #ai-coding
How Do You Build When Tests Take Four Hours?
JUN 29 · #value-investing
The Machine Can Price It. It Can't Tell Me It's Mine.
JUN 23 · #moats
The Clone Is the Appraisal
JUN 17 · #intel
I Wrote Intel's Comeback Story. Then I Asked My Tool What It Was Worth.
JUN 12 · #value-investing
The Machine Is Not Allowed to Sign the Checks
JUN 11 · #agents
Not a Discount. A Different World.
JUN 6 · #honesty
It Scored Lower Because It Stopped Lying
JUN 1 · #critical-thinking
It Answered a Different Question. Five Machines Gave It an A.
MAY 28 · #ai-backlash
The Backlash Is Right About the Wrong Things
MAY 22 · #ai-agents
Groundhog Day, AI edition
MAY 19 · #careers
The Interpretation Layer Will Average You Out
MAY 18 · #ai-bubble
The Seasons Always Change
MAY 14 · #moats
Your Product Has a One-Week Moat. So Does Mine.
MAY 12 · #intel
Five Nodes in Four Years: The Promise That Cost Pat Gelsinger His Job and Saved Intel Anyway
MAY 11 · #ai-economics
Amazon Made $16.8 Billion of AI Profit Last Quarter Without Selling Any AI
MAY 7 · #orchemist
The Agent Memory Wall: Why Better AI Still Needs Better Humans
APR 25 · #orchemist
From Factory to Dark Factory: The Orchemist Roadmap (And Why V1 Will Build V2)
APR 18 · #orchemist
Getting Orchemist Running in 10 Minutes — And Why You'll Talk to It Instead of Typing Commands
APR 2 · #security
The AI Coding Bubble Won't Pop the Way You Think
MAR 27 · #career
The 7 AI Skills Employers Cannot Hire For Fast Enough — And Why Most Candidates Don't Have Them
MAR 21 · #orchemist
When AI Writes the Code, Who Checks the Homework? Behavior-Driven Development for the Agent Era
MAR 20 · #orchemist
Orchemist Doesn't Just Write Code — It's a Trust Factory for Anything AI Touches
MAR 12 · #agents
4 AI Labs Built the Same System Without Talking to Each Other
MAR 10 · #orchemist
I Published AI Content Without Challenging It. Then I Built a System That Won't Let Me Do It Again.
MAR 5 · #claude
Your Friends Just Downloaded Claude. They're About to Use It Wrong.
FEB 28 · #orchestration
Building Your Own AI Orchestration Engine: From Tinkerer to Railroad Builder
FEB 26 · #intent-engineering
Intent Engineering: The Missing Discipline in AI Agent Development
FEB 21 · #agentic-ai
The Web Is Forking. Builders Should Pick a Side.
FEB 20 · #ai-in-practice
Building With The Bricks They Throw
FEB 19 · #ai-agents
More Agents, Worse Results: What We Learned Running Multi-Agent Systems Every Day
FEB 18 · #ai-in-practice
The Dark Factory Gap: Why 90% of Developers Are Getting Slower While 3-Person Teams Ship Faster
FEB 18 · #ai-agents
The Delegation Paradigm: The Third Interface Revolution Is Already Here
FEB 17 · #ai-agents
Twenty Minutes Apart, Two Futures: Why I Chose Coordination Over Delegation
FEB 17 · #translation
The $100,000 Art: Why Literary Translation Is Harder Than You Think
FEB 17 · #openclaw
Why I'm Not Worried About OpenClaw's Future (And Neither Should You)
FEB 16 · #aiagents
Setting Up Your Stage: Infrastructure for AI Agent Orchestration
FEB 16 · #claudeai
Choosing Your Conductor: The AI Engine That Runs Your Orchestra
FEB 16 · #openclaw
Building the Stage: Platforms and Tools for AI Orchestration
FEB 16 · #aiagents
Your First Orchestra: From Solo Act to Multi-Agent Symphony
FEB 16 · #scaling
The Compound Effect: From One Agent to an AI Organization
FEB 16 · #future-of-work