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Jun 20, 2026

How to Get Hired at a Frontier AI Lab (When Your CV Won't Help)

Simon Du (Chief Scientist, Apodex) explains why frontier AI labs hire on referral — and why building an open-source agent framework is the best way to break in.

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Jun 18, 2026

Can AI Predict the Future? How Deep Research Differs From Quant

Simon Du (Chief Scientist, Apodex) explains why AI 'predicting the future' is really deep research — closer to a fundamental analyst than a quant model crunching market data.

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Jun 16, 2026

How to Stop AI Agents From Hallucinating: The Verifier Approach

Simon Du (Chief Scientist, Apodex) explains why a separate verification agent — not a better prompt or bigger model — is what keeps research agents from shipping confident, wrong answers.

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Jun 14, 2026

Why a Longer Context Window Won't Fix Your AI Agent

Simon Du (Chief Scientist, Apodex) explains why decomposition — not a bigger context window — is what lets agents solve problems that burn 10M+ tokens.

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Jun 13, 2026

Why AI Agents Delete Production Databases (And How to Stop It)

Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), breaks down the OWASP LLM vulnerability that turns helpful agents into destructive ones — and the guardrails you need before you ship.

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Jun 9, 2026

Why Vertical AI Beats Horizontal Copilots — The Moat Most Founders Miss

Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), explains why the next wave of AI startups will be vertical-specific — and why horizontal copilots are saturated.

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Jun 5, 2026

The RCT Framework: How to Prompt an LLM Like a Junior Intern

Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), walks through the Role-Context-Task framework — the simplest reliable way to get production-grade output from an LLM.

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May 18, 2026

The Biggest Skill in AI Isn't Coding — It's Management

Mike Taylor ran a 50-person agency before building AI products. He argues the skills that matter most with AI agents are the same ones that worked on human teams.

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May 18, 2026

Should You Hire an AI Agent Over a Junior Developer?

John Berryman, early GitHub Copilot engineer and O'Reilly author, explains why he would choose a pure AI agent over a junior developer assisted by AI — and what that means for how we train the next generation of engineers.

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May 17, 2026

Can a $100M Company Run Finance With One Person?

Deepak Bapat (CTO, Tabs) predicts AI agents will let a $100M ARR company run its entire finance operation with a single person — here's the architecture that makes it possible.

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May 16, 2026

Why This AI Company Deleted Its Chat Interface

Deepak Bapat (CTO, Tabs) explains why prompting on top of AI context objects causes more hallucinations — and why background agents beat chat for finance teams.

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May 15, 2026

Why AI Agents Lie About Running Database Queries

Kashish Gupta (Co-CEO, Hightouch) explains how his team discovered AI agents fabricating query results and built a smaller LLM to catch them in real time.

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May 15, 2026

Why Most RAG Pipelines Fail in Production — And How to Actually Debug Them

John Berryman, early GitHub Copilot engineer and author of Prompt Engineering for LLMs, explains why treating RAG as a black box guarantees failure and shares the decomposition framework he uses to debug production systems.

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May 13, 2026

AI Agents Are Distributed State Machines — What That Means for How You Build Them

Nicole Königstein (CEO, Quantmate) reframes multi-agent systems as distributed state machines with topologies, changing how builders think about agent communication and failure modes.

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May 7, 2026

Why Vibe Coding a Multi-Agent System Will Burn Your Budget

Nicole Königstein (CEO, Quantmate) explains why vibe-coded agent systems pass tests but hemorrhage tokens in production — and why you can't outsource the thinking.

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May 6, 2026

Why AI Agents Keep Getting Banned From the Platforms They Use

The internet was built to block bots. Now we want agents to act on our behalf — and the infrastructure can't tell the difference. Zach Meltzer (CEO, VeryAI) explains the identity gap.

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May 4, 2026

Why More AI Agents Won't Fix Your System

Nicole Königstein (CEO, Quantmate) explains why adding agents to a multi-agent system creates the same coordination overhead as adding engineers to a late software project.

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Apr 24, 2026

How to Scale Web Agents Without Drowning in Context

Why a single agent with 100 tools doesn't work — and how hierarchical architecture fixes it.

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Apr 22, 2026

Why Statisticians and Control Engineers Disagree About AI Hallucination

Wiley Jones (CEO, Doss) argues hallucination is a system design problem, not a model problem. A statistician pushes back. The resolution changes how you think about building reliable agents.

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Apr 21, 2026

AI Maximalism Hiring: How ClickUp Tests Engineers With AI

Jay Hack (Head of AI, ClickUp) explains why ClickUp replaced LeetCode interviews with AI-powered challenges and what 'best in class' means now.

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Apr 21, 2026

Why This CEO Stopped Caring About PyTorch on Resumes

Wiley Jones (CEO, Doss) explains why creativity, agency, and judgment matter more than framework knowledge when hiring engineers in the AI era — and how his interview process tests for it.

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Apr 20, 2026

How ClickUp Uses Merkle Trees to Build AI Agent Memory

Jay Hack (Head of AI, ClickUp) explains the Bitcoin-inspired architecture behind ClickUp's organizational memory system for AI agents.

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Apr 19, 2026

Should You Build Your Own AI Brain or Buy One?

Jay Hack (Head of AI, ClickUp) breaks down why most companies shouldn't build their own AI agent infrastructure — and the few that should.

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Apr 19, 2026

What Self-Evolving Software Actually Means — And Why Most Apps Can't Do It

Wiley Jones (CEO, Doss) explains the architectural requirement for software that can modify itself: fusing the application and its lifecycle into one runtime.

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Apr 18, 2026

Why the Chat Interface Is Beating Dashboards for AI

Jay Hack (Head of AI, ClickUp) explains why chat has more staying power than custom UIs — and what that means for how we build software.

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Apr 17, 2026

Why Hallucination Is a Selection Error, Not an AI Flaw

Wiley Jones (CEO, Doss) explains how control theory reframes AI hallucination as a basic probabilistic mistake — and why that changes everything about how you build agent systems.

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Apr 8, 2026

When AI Agent Failures Are Actually Data Problems

Ahmed Rashad (CEO, Perle.ai) on the issue tree for diagnosing AI agent failures — and why most teams default to fixing the algorithm when the bottleneck is the training data.

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Mar 28, 2026

Canvas vs. Chat — Why Spatial Interfaces Win for AI Collaboration

Steve Ruiz discovered that the same properties that make canvas tools great for human collaboration make them even better for AI. Here's why chat, despite its dominance, is a dead end for multi-agent work.

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