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When I started this project, I knew deep in my heart that we could get an LLM plus tool-usage to solve arbitrarily complex workflows. I still believe this is possible, but I’m no longer convinced this is actually a good solution. Some problems are just vastly simpler, cheaper, and faster to solve with software. This […]
We were three weeks from launch when we discovered our AI wasn’t actually intelligent—it was just confidently wrong. The marketing site promised “AI-powered document analysis that understands context and delivers accurate insights.” Our demos looked flawless. The investors were excited. The sales team had already started taking pre-orders. Then a customer uploaded a standard employment […]
What did your team build this year? If you used Stack Internal in 2025, the answer is: a lot. You asked tough questions, shared expert answers, reviewed content, and helped your organization move faster through knowledge. Now, you can see that impact come to life in one place: Your 2025 Stacked—a year-in-review experience available to […]
2025: The year in LLMs 31st December 2025 This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 and Things we learned about LLMs in 2024. It’s been a year filled with […]
The key risk Instagram faces is that, as the world changes more quickly, the platform fails to keep up. Looking forward to 2026, one major shift: authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible. Everything that made creators matter-the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked-is now accessible to anyone with […]
Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. He then explores whether AI-powered prototyping is the answer, questioning whether the path forward is the popular “vibe coding” approach or a more structured, intent-driven approach. There is a spectrum of opinions on […]
from the a-time-to-build dept Look, I get it. The world is a mess. Important institutions are crumbling. It feels like both the tech and political worlds are collaborating to squeeze all remaining humanity out of all of us. Cynicism is ascendant. Nihilism is the new black. And yet: I remain optimistic. Not the naive, everything-will-work-out-fine […]
Most of the extensions to our internal agent have been the direct result of running into a problem that I couldn’t elegantly solve within our current framework. Evals, compaction, large-file handling all fit into that category. Subagents, allowing an agent to initiate other agents, are in a different category: I’ve frequently thought that we needed […]
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2026.] Last year we released Staging Ground to help new question-askers get feedback on their […]
From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital Levittown. But it doesn’t have to be. Last year, a study found that cars are steadily getting less colourful. In the US, around 80% of cars are now black, white, […]
