Life in the Singularity

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July 2025

Grok Heavy is Built Different
Grok Heavy feels like a glimpse of the future. It’s an AI that doesn't just answer questions; it solves problems with a unique multi-agent system.
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Matt McDonagh
Context Engineering Dethrones Prompt Engineering
I spent the first part of my career on Wall Street, first in the I-banking grinder and then co-founding a hedge fund.
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Matt McDonagh
Linear Thinkers vs. the Factorial Future
Meet Avi.
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Matt McDonagh
Giving AI Agents Eyes, and the Ability Make Tools
AI is skyrocketing but not all capabilities are progressing at the same pace.
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Matt McDonagh
I Like Big Brains
Of all the bets ever placed in the history of this planet, the wager on a creature like Homo sapiens was the longest of long shots.
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Matt McDonagh
Twin Singularities: Bitcoin & AI
It all starts, as these things so often do, with a handful of nerds getting unreasonably excited about something no one else understands.
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Matt McDonagh
Reflections from a Self-Evolving World
In the first part of this series, I laid out a blueprint for a grand plan.
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The Normalcy Fraud
There’s a lie, or at least a spectacular misdirection, that we all learn sometime between middle school math and our first soul-crushing corporate…
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Matt McDonagh

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