2026
Google positions Gemini 4 Argon for long-horizon agentic work
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model aimed at complex enterprise and software-development workloads, pairing claims of stronger coding performance and advanced reasoning with an introductory…
5 agentic AI trade-offs to consider before production
Companies across industries are moving quickly to build agentic AI systems. But getting an agent to work in a prototype is very different from getting one to perform reliably in…
OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper
The Department of Justice has charged an OpenAI engineer with attempting to intercept oral communications after allegedly planting a recording device in an exec conference room. Investigators claim company security…
It’s time to rewrite all that old code
The first substantial software project I ever undertook (at least it seemed substantial at the time) was porting the famous text-based Star Trek game from an old newspaper I found…
What building an Android weather app taught me about designing for reliability
I spent 13 years building Android apps, and for most of them, the backend was someone else’s problem. Building Weather Pal, my own forecast app, broke that habit fast. It…
