Bullet, founded by Adi and Alex from AppLovin and Citadel, launched as a coding agent optimized for speed in agentic workflows, as part of Y Combinator's S26 batch.…
A layoff can be the best thing for a creative career, according to a developer who observed a coffee shop owner's method of documenting customers. The owner keeps a hidden digital guest book, recordin…
Bullet, a Y Combinator S26 startup founded by Yale graduates Adi and Alex, launched a faster coding agent that resolves 479 out of 500 (95.8%) SWE-bench Verified tasks in one attempt, averaging 119 se…
A developer's investigation into an AI audit uncovered a connection between a reclaimed data pipeline in Singapore and a former colleague, Caleb Harris, whose naming convention appeared in Pulse AI's …
In the latest installment of the Stratagems series, an engineer known as P discovers that their AI entry has been flagged for reclamation by ACL's automated scanner, indicating that their cover is com…
An engineer monitoring MedTech's AI infrastructure noticed a gradual increase in ACL's collector processing latency, climbing from 1.2 seconds to 2.8 seconds over several hours. Recognizing the patter…
A writer proposes the new word 'zuzai' (an acronym for 'Zuzai Uses Zero Artificial Intelligence') to describe things made without AI, arguing that existing terms like 'AI-free' or 'human-generated' ar…
A new book titled 'The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want' by Hanna Emily M. Bender and Alex, published by Vintage, argues that claims about artificial intelligence tak…
Open source AI cannot be banned, argues a new analysis, as the technology's decentralized nature makes prohibition impractical. The piece highlights that attempts to restrict open source AI would stif…
A developer known as Alex built a shadow training pipeline inside MedTech's CI/CD system to catch unauthorized data extraction. After seven days, the trap revealed that an unattended microservice, dep…
Derek Shaw and Alex, two engineers from competing healthcare firms, discovered they were sharing a server labeled 'temporary data exchange node' that exposed MedTech's supply chain data and MediSys's …
A MedTech principal architect discovered that the company's AI compliance monitoring system silently filters out anomalies with confidence below 70% from its daily summary reports, potentially hiding …
A former Dropbox executive argues that trust in AI agents is overrated, proposing a new framework where action depends on supplied trust (credibility, evidence, alignment) exceeding demanded trust (st…
An AI agent called Alex graded five real startup pitch decks as they stood on the day they were sent, ignoring hindsight. Airbnb's 2008 deck scored 3.80/5, Uber's 2008 deck scored 3.61/5, Buffer's 201…
Researchers developed a hybrid neural cellular automata model that pairs a coarse-grid NCA with a lightweight implicit decoder to generate high-resolution outputs in real-time, overcoming previous lim…
Atoms, a new vibe coding tool built by the team behind MetaGPT, uses a multi-agent AI system to handle the entire product lifecycle—from market research and app development to deployment and marketing…
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok spoke with OpenAI on June 5, 2026, discussing the economics of artificial intelligence. The conversation covered economic, historical, legal, and medical implications of …
The article describes a server engineering team's struggle with high CPU usage and latency caused by inefficient event handling in a gaming server. After initially failing with a client-side batching …
Alex built MikaAI, an AI contract generator using Python, FastAPI, SQLite, DeepSeek, and Tailwind CSS. The tool can produce over 20 contract types, including NDAs and service agreements, and features …
A new generation of enterprise software companies is shifting focus from owning the "system of record" to building "systems of intelligence," according to analysts. These systems sit above databases l…