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Oct 1, 2026

When to use DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash tied Kimi K3 at 60/64 on reading from 8k to 512k.

Aug 18, 2026MCP Went Stateless: What Must Change on Your ServersOne POST now carries version, method, and name, so any replica can answer.

Aug 25, 2026Encrypted Reasoning Traces on Your Laptop: Resume or Strip315,320 encrypted blocks hid inside 6,708 agent sessions, and 4.9% leaked a real secret.

Agentic systems, analyzed

What it takes to run AI agents inside firms that answer to regulators.

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Sep 15, 2026Most of a makelaar's time isn't selling housesThe tools already do useful work. The question is what still depends on a person to carry context, resolve exceptions and close the loop.

Sep 14, 2026You Can Build Your Own AI Agents Team, But Will You Own What Happens Next?Follow a client proposal through coordinating agents, checking progress and improving results, then decide what your firm wants to build and run.

Sep 1, 2026Most of your senior people's time isn't designIn a small design agency, proposals, coordination and sign-off chasing eat the senior people. What an agentic operating system takes off them.

Long-form, most-read

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Oct 20, 2025

Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words (And I Can't Believe It Worked)

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Mar 16, 2026

Perplexity Computer Just Did in 7 Minutes What Took Me Hours

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Oct 6, 2026

I Built a Claude Code Mod to Break the Test Retry Loop

Opening page of the published V2X survey paper

Peer-reviewed · Springer

V2X for smart mobility: communication protocols, localization techniques and simulation frameworks

Hanan H. Hussein, Adham K. Hedewy, Wessal W. Mostafa, Ahmed I. Abdelrahman

Journal of Electrical Systems and Information TechnologyMay 2026

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