The Wire
What the Chatbot Era Quietly Abandoned
The move from things that talk to things that do is being sold as an upgrade — but a few hard-won ideas got left on the curb, and not all of them deserved it.
4 min
The Wire
The Benchmarks Are Theater Now
When every frontier model clusters within a tenth of a point on the same saturated tests, the leaderboard stops measuring quality and starts measuring marketing.
4 min
The Wire
Everyone Ships Agents. Almost No One Ships Memory.
The industry has standardized how agents reach out to the world and ignored the harder question of what they keep — and that asymmetry is not an accident.
5 min