Technology & Education
We live in an extraordinary era. Technology transforms every aspect of our lives, and we are witnessing it firsthand.
Education rests on three foundations: what we teach, how we teach it, and the tools we use to teach and learn. Content. Pedagogy. Technology. Computers and the internet revolutionized content delivery — they made knowledge accessible, but left pedagogy untouched. We still teach largely as we did before screens arrived.
AI has the potential to change this. It can adapt to a learner's pace, give immediate feedback, and identify gaps in understanding that human instructors miss at scale. Most importantly, it makes one-on-one instruction economically viable for the first time in human history. The road is long and winding — but the work at this intersection matters now.
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Prompt, Context, Harness: The Three Phases of AI Engineering
AI engineering has evolved through three compensatory phases — prompt, context, and harness — each addressing a failure the previous layer couldn't fix. Harness Engineering is the governance layer that keeps teams of agents coherent across complex, long-running tasks.
This essay argues that AI is reshaping software at an architectural level — moving from human-centered applications to a composable agentic ecosystem where …
E-learning has built a $300B industry around the least effective slice of the learning model — formal instruction — while neglecting the experiential and social …
The essay explores cinema's 'mysterious characters'—figures whose opacity resists even patient observation—arguing that withholding creates gaps that transform …
Why did developers abandon polished IDEs for a terminal tool? The answer is less about AI than about Unix—a 50-year-old design philosophy of composable text …
Two products born from the same codebase diverge in fundamental ways. Claude Code's local execution and CoWork's managed VM architecture shape not just …
Claude Cowork marks Anthropic's pivot from chatbot to agentic AI — a productized Claude Code that plans, executes, and delegates tasks through sub-agents in a …
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