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Meet the Scope Creep Kraken

The following article was originally published on Tim O’Brien’s Medium page and ...

AI Is Writing Our Code Faster Than We Can Verify It

This is the fourth article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven deve...

Grief and the Nonprofessional Programmer

I can’t claim to be a professional software developer—not by a long shot. I occa...

What happened when they installed ChatGPT on a nuclear ...

If there’s anything that makes people more uncomfortable than highly advanced AI...

Humanity’s return to the moon is a deeply religious mis...

Editor’s Note, April 1, 5:00 pm ET: The interview in this piece was conducted wh...

The importance of space toilets, explained

The Artemis II space mission is making history. Farthest humans have ever travel...

OpenAI’s oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical new econo...

OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers d...

Human bodies aren’t ready to travel to Mars. Space medi...

Editor’s note, April 7, 2026, 5:10 pm ET: The Artemis II mission is conducting e...

The simple question that could change your career

Devon Fritz had his midlife crisis a little early.  He spent his 20s writing tax...

The case for AI realism

In 1964, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted that computers would ...

Anthropic just made AI scarier

How powerful is AI? Enough that Anthropic, a leading AI company, announced earli...

The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use y...

Check your pocket. You’re probably carrying a tracking device that will allow th...

A major new study found AI outperformed doctors in ER d...

When I think of heroic doctors, I think of the physician in the hospital who’s p...

90,000 Screenshots of One Celebrity's Phone Were Expose...

Spyware appears to have captured everything from intimate photos to private mess...

The Eve Aqua Smart Water Controller Lets You Water Your...

No need to excavate an in-ground irrigation system once you install this fixture...

The Person Behind Those Viral Polycule Ads Says It’s Ju...

No, the flyers weren’t part of a secret scheme to promote anything.