June 12, 2026
Take Nobody’s Word
Last week Anthropic published a measurement of judgment. The setup: take real research sessions, find the moments where a scientist chose what to do next, ask a model to make the same call, and have a second model, shown how the session eventually played out, judge which call was better. The skill has a name in the field, research taste…
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May 22, 2026
Universal Machine
I asked Claude to do something it had no business doing. "Can you edit video?" I had ten short video clips that needed to be cut into one piece with subtitles, in a specific style. Normally I'd use Premiere for a task like this, and spend an hour or two perfecting every frame. I asked Claude to do it instead. The first attempt crashed…
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May 1, 2026
Designer
A few years ago in London, Mason Wells introduced me to Mark Adams as "a designer." Adams is the Managing Director of Vitsœ, the company that still makes Dieter Rams' 606 Universal Shelving System today. In the US, being introduced that way is a signal you've been placed below the leadership in the room…
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