Edition: August 28 – September 4, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the release calendar and the reckoning arrived together. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic each shipped a flagship model between September 1 and 3 — every one of them pitched on agentic autonomy and cyber capability — while a … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 28 – September 4, 2026) — Four Frontier Models in Three Days, and a Bill to Ban Superintelligence
Spec Kit vs AWS AI-DLC
I ran the same expense-approval project through Spec Kit and AWS AI-DLC. One is a lean artifact pipeline; the other is a stateful process runtime. Here is where each approach helps, where it gets heavy and how the implementation differs.
AI Is Not the Plan
I keep hearing two versions of the AI story. In one, AI gives everyone a personal tutor, doctor, researcher, and software engineer. In the other, it takes our jobs, floods the internet with deception, and concentrates power in a handful of companies. Both versions miss the important part. AI is a capability. It is not … Continue reading AI Is Not the Plan
The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO
Edition: August 22–28, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the two poles of the AI industry pulled visibly apart. OpenAI used the worst safety failure in its history to reinvent itself as the lab willing to stop, pausing its most capable unreleased model. In the same news cycle, Anthropic filed … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO
What Actually Runs When You Walk Away: KiroCrew’s Autonomy Modes, Compared
Once a KiroCrew session is running, there are four ways work can proceed without you driving every turn: Autopilot, the Task Runner, Monitor, and /goal. The docs present them as separate features, and I could not tell which one I was supposed to reach for — so I spent an afternoon working through them question … Continue reading What Actually Runs When You Walk Away: KiroCrew’s Autonomy Modes, Compared
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