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Prompt Engineering Didn't Die. It Got Promoted.

In June 2026, the engineer who built Claude Code casually detonated a small career crisis. "I don't write the prompt anymore," Boris Cherny said. Within days, a viral post and a widely read essay turned that one line into a professional obituary. Prompt engineering was dead....

China’s AI Bet Is Bigger Than Models

Most executives are still looking at China’s AI push through the wrong end of the telescope. They see model progress, chip constraints, and the usual scoreboard logic. But China’s more consequential move is not simply to build better models. It is trying to build an entire AI economy:...

Amazon’s AI Metrics May Be Rewarding the Wrong Behavior

Somewhere inside Amazon, a familiar corporate ritual appears to be unfolding: a new metric arrives, dashboards light up, and employees start adjusting their behavior to match the number rather than the mission. That makes this week’s story about internal pressure to increase AI usage more than a workplace curiosity;...

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