The Thinking Revolution Nobody Asked For (But Actually Needed) Anthropic dropped Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025 with a feature that sounds deceptively simple: extended thinking mode. Instead of rattling off an answer immediately, the model can now reason through a problem internally for up to 128,000 tokens before showing Continue Reading
Cursor 0.45 and the Rise of the Agentic IDE — I Spent 30 Days Letting AI Drive and Here’s What I Learned
The Setup: Why I Decided to Actually Test This Thing I’ve been writing code for twenty years. I’ve watched every IDE revolution arrive with breathless marketing, witnessed multiple “this will replace developers” cycles, and developed a finely tuned skepticism detector. So when Cursor’s Agent mode started making waves in late Continue Reading
Your Cloud Bill Is Lying to You (And How to Catch It)
Last month I watched a startup founder stare at a $47,000 AWS bill like it had personally insulted his mother. The previous month? $12,000. Same traffic, same features, same everything. Turns out their “auto-scaling” had been merrily spinning up instances in regions they didn’t even know existed. This is not Continue Reading
When AI Templates Went Too Far: The Romance Writing Scandal That Shook Publishing
The Algorithm’s Love Affair Gone Wrong The hype cycle moves fast enough to give you whiplash, so let me pump the brakes before we talk about what’s actually happening here. In March 2026, the romance writing community got hit with its most devastating scandal when readers discovered that tens of Continue Reading