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May 31, 2026
The Claude Stack Goes to Work: How Anthropic's Product Ecosystem Reshapes Marketing and Creative Labour
Anthropic stopped shipping a chatbot and started shipping an ecosystem. From Artifacts to Cowork to Design, the through-line is the same: move the model out of the chat box and into the work. For marketing teams, that change is not cosmetic.
7 min read
May 31, 2026
Five Doors Into Enterprise Agentic AI: Copilot Studio, Joule Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks, and LangGraph
Every major enterprise vendor now sells a way to build AI agents, and they are not competing on the same axis. The real choice is not which product is best. It is how much control you are willing to trade for how much convenience.
9 min read
May 31, 2026
Why LangGraph? A Case for Control Over Convenience in Production Agents
The frameworks that demo best are rarely the ones that survive in production. LangGraph wins where it matters by refusing to hide the thing every other framework tries to hide: the control flow.
7 min read
May 31, 2026
The Quiet Standard: How the Model Context Protocol Became the USB-C of AI
The most consequential AI release of late 2024 was not a model. It was a protocol. The story of how a single open standard ended the N-times-M integration nightmare is the story of every standard that ever mattered.
7 min read
May 31, 2026
From Macros to Agency: A Short History of Automating Knowledge Work
The dream of automating office work is older than the personal computer. Tracing the line from VisiCalc through RPA to LLM agents reveals a recurring lesson: the tools that record steps break, and the tools that pursue goals are about to be tested against the same wall.
10 min read
May 31, 2026
How Much Data Is Enough? The Chinchilla Correction
For years the field raced to build bigger models. Then a 2022 study showed most of those giants were undertrained, and quietly redrew the map of how to spend a compute budget.
3 min read
May 31, 2026
The Length of a Thought: Why Context Windows Became the New Battleground
A 512-token model could read a paragraph. A million-token model can read a novel. The journey between those two numbers is a story about quadratic cost, clever approximations, and what it means for a machine to "remember."
4 min read
May 30, 2026
Why 'agents' is the wrong frame for most workflows you actually want
The industry frames every LLM feature as an agent. Most production systems that work are pipelines with one or two LLM steps and clear handoffs. Default to a workflow, reach for an agent only when the problem demands it.
10 min read
May 30, 2026
RLHF vs DPO in production: what we learned shipping both
DPO is the right default for almost every preference-tuning project in 2026, but the cases where PPO still wins are sharper and more common than the simplicity pitch admits.
9 min read