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In 2026, the term “AI assistant” has become increasingly broad. A few years ago, it mostly referred to a conversational chatbot. You ask a question, the chatbot replies, and the interaction ends when the chat ends. This model is still important, but it no longer describes the full landscape. AI assistants now appear in browsers, […]
One of biggest problem with AI today is that it will do exactly what you tell it to do. And often, it ties itself in knots trying. Tell it to add features, and it will. Make things prettier? No problem. Layer on more functionality, more complexity, more cleverness? It will happily comply. Even when the […]
It’s been less than five months since Austrian developer Peter Steinberger pushed a weekend project called “WhatsApp Relay” to GitHub. Since then, that project — renamed from Clawdbot to Moltbot and finally to OpenClaw — has exploded to over 247,000 GitHub stars, drawn millions of visitors, and been called “the next ChatGPT” by NVIDIA’s Jensen […]
A seemingly trivial question has been making the rounds recently: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?” Several leading LLMs were asked this question and their responses were confident and polished, but wrong. At first glance, the correct answer seems obvious. If you want […]
This article describes the implementation of Codex behind the scenes. Codex CLI is an open-source software engineering agent that helps developers read, write, and reason about code by combining LLM with tooling. Unlike Claude Code, another popular agentic tool, Codex is open source, which makes its design choices and internal mechanics transparent and easier to […]
This is a relatively new attack technique that specifically targets developers. It typically begins under the guise of a technical interview, where candidates are asked to review a codebase by cloning a Git repository. Unknown to the victim, the repository is malicious. The attack leverages a lesser-known feature of Visual Studio Code called Tasks. When […]
AWS just introduced a new wizard UI called Amazon ECS Express Mode. Amazon ECS is Amazon’s own container orchestration service. Compared to EKS, it is much simpler. However there are still quite a number of concepts (eg. task definition, task, service etc) to learn and steps to perform. ECS Express Mode simplifies it to just […]
This IEEE article talks about the failures of software projects. It is timely, as the world looks to AI as the panacea to all problems. Arguably, talent problems might be alleviated by proper use of AI tools – though even that is not a guarantee. Cautionary tales like the Phoenix’s payroll meltdown reminds us that […]
New extension to MCP protocol enables support for interactive UI for MCP hosts. The initial extension specification supports only text/html content. Instead of just returning raw text, MCP servers can now deliver UI in the way that is intended to be visualized, eg. in the form of a HTML chart. Today we’re introducing the proposal […]
Google’s Imagen 4 Fast is now generally available. I tested it to generate a vintage-style stamp featuring Singapore in the 60s – inspired by one of the sample prompts. Not bad, except that a Satay stall would not normally look like a pushcart. Try it in Google AI Studio. Discover Imagen 4 Fast, Google’s new […]