Originally published on Towards Data Science, March 4, 2026. Too many prototypes, too few products Software development has fundamentally changed in the GenAI era. With the ubiquity of vibe coding tools and agent-first IDEs like Google’s Antigravity, developing new applications has never been faster. Further, the powerful concepts inspired by viral open-source frameworks like OpenClaw are
Originally published in tech-at-instacart Key contributors: Sharath Rao Karikurve, Jagannath Putrevu, Haixun Wang, Allan Stewart and Weian Sheng Imagine this: You’re at home, preparing to rely on Instacart for your grocery delivery. You’ve carefully chosen each item,...
Originally published in Data Tinkerer A Senior ML Engineer’s perspective on production constraints, rules vs ML and the workflow behind large-scale recommender systems Following on from previous posts talking to people in the field, today we will be...
Originally published on ProPublica, January 26, 2026. The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
Originally published on Forbes, January 15, 2026. In the current wave of generative AI innovation, industries that live in documents and text — legal, healthcare, customer support, sales, marketing — have been riding the crest. The technology transformed...
Originally published on The New Yorker, December 12, 2025. The narrative of boom and bust is familiar—but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. Over the past few months, I’ve introduced artificial intelligence into...
Originally published on MIT Technology Review, December 15, 2025. Four ways to think about this year’s reckoning Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire...
Originally published on MIT Technology Review, December 15, 2025. It’s a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert...
Originally published on Mind Matters, November 5, 2025. At Technology Review, senior editor Will Douglas Heaven offers a corrective to the continuous yelp in legacy media that AGI — machines that think like people — is just around...
Originally published on NPR, November 23, 2025. Perhaps nobody embodies artificial intelligence mania quite like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of chip behemoth Nvidia, which has seen its value spike 300% in the last two years. A frothy...
