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A Lab, Not a Chatbot
The model is not the research system. The institution around the model is the research system.
Jul 18
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Matt McDonagh
When Silicon Catches the Brain
The brain’s last great advantage is not arithmetic.
Jul 16
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Matt McDonagh
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Our First Successful AI Research Run Proved Almost Nothing
Our first successful AI research run ended with a refusal.
Jul 12
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Matt McDonagh
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Context Is the New Model Advantage
The market is slowly learning something interesting that the frontier model makers are going to need to develop an answer for soon:
Jul 11
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Matt McDonagh
Frontier AI vs Chinese AI vs Open Source Self-Hosted AI
Databricks just published the kind of benchmark that matters.
Jul 9
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Matt McDonagh
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AI Leverage Is an Operating Model Problem
Every company has access to AI at this point.
Jul 8
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Matt McDonagh
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When Cognitive Labor Becomes Abundant
A year ago, I wrote about the revenge of the generalist.
Jul 5
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Matt McDonagh
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Agents Per Gigawatt
The next great productivity metric will not be GDP per capita.
Jul 2
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Matt McDonagh
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June 2026
5 Keys to Building Highly Effective AI Agents
Capital flows to the highest point of leverage.
Jun 30
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Matt McDonagh
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Pairing Machine Generation with Human Taste
AI is the apex technology of human history.
Jun 26
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Matt McDonagh
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The Shift From Chat to Command
OpenAI just published one of the most important papers of the AI age, and it’s not a research paper about the next advance in technology… it’s focused…
Jun 25
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Matt McDonagh
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GLM-5.2 Proves AI Comes for All Moats
I don’t want to get a reputation for overreacting to every new model drop.
Jun 24
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Matt McDonagh
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