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Project Maven: How AI Turned War Into a Database Query
The military's AI targeting system can now hit 5,000 targets daily. We should talk about what happens when warfare moves at database speed.
Permission Hungry Agents and the Return to First Principles
ThoughtWorks Radar 34 reveals AI's paradox: we're racing forward while rediscovering software fundamentals, and our security models aren't ready.
Permission Hungry Agents and the Return to First Principles
ThoughtWorks' latest radar reveals AI isn't just pushing us forward, it's forcing us back to fundamentals like clean code and security basics.
DeepSeek V4: The Frontier Model That Costs Almost Nothing
DeepSeek drops V4 models that rival GPT and Gemini at a fraction of the cost. The efficiency gains are staggering, and they might run on my laptop.
When AI Makes War Fast Enough to Kill Before Anyone Can Think
Project Maven turned battlefield targeting from hours to seconds. The real cost isn't just the bugs, it's that we built systems too fast for humans to stop.
Facebook's Hybrid Search: When Keywords Meet Neural Embeddings
Meta rebuilt Facebook Groups search by merging traditional keyword matching with dense vector embeddings, then used Llama 3 to validate the results at scale.
Claude's Personal App Connectors: The AI Assistant Goes Consumer
Anthropic expands Claude beyond work apps into personal territory with Spotify, Uber, and Instacart integrations. What this means for the AI race.
Facebook's Hybrid Search: When Keyword Matching Isn't Enough Anymore
Meta's Groups search now blends lexical precision with semantic understanding. Here's why traditional keyword matching is dying and what comes next.
Facebook's Hybrid Search: When Keyword Matching Meets Neural Understanding
Meta rebuilt Facebook Groups search by blending traditional inverted indices with dense embeddings, then used Llama 3 to grade results at scale.
Sony's Ace Robot Is Beating Professional Table Tennis Players, and That's Actually Harder Than Beating Humans at Chess
Sony's AI-powered Ace robot defeats pro table tennis players using 12 cameras and 8 joints. Why physical games are harder for AI than Chess or Go.
Reading Code in the Age of AI: Why Human Review Still Matters
ThoughtWorks Radar reveals AI's paradox: tools generate complexity faster than we can understand it. Time to revisit fundamentals.
The Permission Hungry Dilemma: When AI Agents Want Access to Everything
ThoughtWorks Radar 34 highlights a fundamental tension: the most useful AI agents need broad access, but our security guardrails haven't caught up yet.
GitHub Copilot's Limits Crisis: When AI Agents Outgrow Their Infrastructure
GitHub just paused new Copilot signups and tightened usage limits. The reason? Agentic workflows are consuming resources faster than their pricing model can handle.
Epic's AI NPCs in Fortnite: When Your Quest Giver Can Go Off-Script
Epic Games lets developers create AI-powered Fortnite characters with conversation capabilities. But there are some very specific rules about what they can't be.
Meta's AI Agents Are Now Fixing Their Own Performance Problems
How Meta built a unified AI platform that automates finding and fixing performance issues, recovering hundreds of megawatts without scaling headcount.