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2026
16 articlesAI Coding Assistants and the Myth of the 10x Developer
AI coding tools are useful and here to stay. That is not the same as the tenfold productivity revolution being sold on the pricing page.
Why AI Search Is Making Google Worse
AI Overviews were meant to save you a click. Increasingly they cost you one, plus the time spent working out whether the summary is true.
Why Every AI Wants Your Data
Your conversations, files and prompts are the raw material for the next model. Whether you knew you were donating them is a matter of default settings.
The Death of the Open Web Through AI Overviews
AI answers are built from pages that depend on visits to survive. The maths of that arrangement does not close.
The Subscription Fatigue of Modern AI
The AI industry has quietly rebuilt the cable bundle, one twenty-pound-a-month chatbot at a time.
Claude's Rate Limits Are Still Confusing
The model is excellent. Working out how much of it you are allowed to use, and when you will be cut off, remains a genuine mystery to paying customers.
The Hidden Cost of AI Tokens
Token pricing looks transparent — a price per million, right there on the page. Predicting your actual bill from it is another matter entirely.
ChatGPT's UI Changes Too Often
Constant redesigns are sold as improvement. For the people using the thing every day, they mostly tax the one thing software is supposed to build: familiarity.
AI Companies Keep Reinventing Search
The AI industry has decided search is broken and it will fix it. In the process it keeps rebuilding search's oldest problems from scratch.
AI Hallucinations Are Still Not Solved
Hallucination is not a bug being ironed out. It is a property of how these systems work, and pretending otherwise is how people get hurt.
Why Every AI Startup Looks the Same
When a thousand companies build the same wrapper around the same three models, they converge on the same everything — including the same fragility.
Why AI Benchmarks Mean Less Than You Think
Benchmark scores are the industry's favourite number and one of its least honest. Here is why the leaderboard keeps lying to you.
The Problem With AI “Memory”
Persistent memory makes chatbots feel personal. It also builds a quiet, growing dossier you did not quite agree to and cannot easily see.
When AI Refuses Perfectly Normal Requests
Over-cautious refusals are the tax responsible users pay for the vendor's risk management. Increasingly the tax is levied on requests that were never risky.
Why AI Product Launches Feel Identical
AI launches have hardened into a genre with fixed conventions. Once you can see the template, you cannot unsee it.
The Race to Replace Human Support With Bots
AI support is sold as faster help for customers. Mostly it is cheaper deflection for companies, with the escape hatch quietly welded shut.