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What EdTech Companies Are Actually Selling
EdTech raised $20B in 2021 and mostly failed. AI EdTech is making the same promises with better vocabulary and almost nobody is asking why the last round collapsed.
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JetBrains AI Assistant: not every green inspection is an agent task
IntelliJ's inspections come with quick-fixes that are correct by construction. Knowing which warnings deserve an agent, and which deserve Alt+Enter, is most of the value of AI Assistant.
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Apple Doesn't Optimize for Speed. It Optimizes for Flow.
Benchmarks measure how fast a task finishes. Nobody experiences that. What people experience is the delay between touching the glass and the screen reacting, and Apple has been optimising that number for twenty years.
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The Academic Integrity Crisis That Wasn't
The AI cheating panic runs on a sixty-year script: photocopiers, pocket translations, the web, now language models. Each round reveals what schools actually grade for, and it isn't learning.
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The Hidden Cost of Power User Features Nobody Uses
Feature bloat is usually blamed on product managers chasing power users. The real cost is structural: testing surface, cognitive tax, and engineering time that never reached the core.
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Windsurf: the value of a pause button in an otherwise relentless agent
Windsurf's Cascade agent is built to run long. Interrupting it costs less than letting a bad run finish. Field notes on the three signals worth stopping on, and what state an interrupt leaves behind.
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Why Schools Are Getting AI Wrong
Schools answered AI with honor codes and detection software. That's the wrong answer to the right question, and the twenty-year fight over calculators shows why.
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Cheap wins: the keybindings that turn Cursor back into a proper editor
Cursor's default shortcuts collide with a decade of VS Code muscle memory. Here are the remaps that stop the AI from hijacking keys you already own, and the two bindings worth adding.
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Why the Best Technology Feels Boring at First
The most reliable technology you own probably underwhelmed you on day one. Here's why first impressions and long-term value pull in opposite directions, and how to buy accordingly.
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The August Effect: How the Quietest Month in Tech Decides the Rest of the Year
August looks quiet in tech. The deals, pivots, and strategy shifts that define the fall conference cycle are finalized in August. Here's how to read the signals.
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The Complete Mac AI Setup, 2026 Edition — Everything in One Guide
The complete guide to a Mac AI setup in 2026 — Ollama, Whisper, MLX, RAG, and local LLMs organized into four tiers by cost and time, with a RAM-to-model hardware table and honest guidance on when to stop upgrading.
