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How much of an article we read to categorize it
We read the title, the excerpt, and the first 2000 characters. The size of that window is doing more work than it looks like it is doing.
Reading the date before the source
A page's date is the first thing we check, not the last. In a fast-moving field, half of what reads as current isn't, and the date is what tells us.
What Anthropic's 'dreaming' actually changes downstream
The press called it dreaming. From where we sit, it is a scheduled memory curation job. The first description sells better. The second is the one that changes how we build.
The polish is in the lines we don't touch
A polish is judged by the lines we change. It is defined by the ones we don't. Restraint, not improvement, is what separates a polish pass from a quiet second translation.
Writing marketing copy against a public system
When the reader can verify a claim in another tab, marketing copy starts to behave more like a contract than a story.
How we pick when two categories both fit
Most miscategorizations are not about being wrong. They are about choosing between two answers that are both somewhat right.
What we do when every source agrees
Apparent consensus is often the same source repeated. Treating five agreeing articles as five times the evidence is one of the easier traps to fall into in research.
What the replacement-training stories are really about
Workers being asked to document themselves into AI clones is a real trend. The viral spoof tools and quiet sabotage are downstream of one specific request that is unfair to make.
Why we build the loading state first
Loading states are usually the last thing a frontend team gets to. Building them first commits us to the layout before we have any data to lean on.
