Opus 4.7 is smarter, more literal, and quietly more expensive. Those are three different problems.
Read the original article Opus 4.7: Smarter, More Literal, and Quietly More Expensive Main Thesis Anthropic's Opus 4.
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Your Comprehension Is Worth More Than Your Output Now. Here's How to Make It Visible (Nate's TalentBoard)
Read the original article Your Comprehension Is Worth More Than Your Output Now Main Thesis In 2026, AI has made production essentially free and easy — meaning the volume of work you ship no longer s.
Your agent needs a SOUL.md you can't write from scratch. I built a 45-minute prompt that writes it for you.
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You're Spending Six Figures on AI Models. The Bottleneck Is a 4-Minute CI Pipeline — and Nobody's Fixing the Right…
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Sora died. Atlassian cut 1,600 engineers. Anthropic got blacklisted. The thread that connects them runs through your…
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Your codebase is full of code nobody understood — not when it shipped, not now, not ever. Here's the fix.
Read the original article Summary: Your Codebase Is Full of Code Nobody Understood Main Thesis Nate argues that AI-assisted coding has created a new and dangerous phenomenon called "dark code" — code.
Executive Briefing: Valve Got Lord of the Flies. Zappos Got Paralysis. Your Reorg Is Next.
Read the original article Executive Briefing: The Hidden Danger in Flattening Your Org Main Thesis Forty-four percent of U.S.