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AI, work, and three possible futures
September 24, 2026•13 min read

AI, work, and three possible futures

A closer reading of Anthropic’s economic scenarios: what changes by 2030, who benefits, and how to turn uncertain futures into better decisions today.

Cursor Tutorial: Complete Guide to the AI Code Editor in 2026
September 24, 2026•22 min read

Cursor Tutorial: Complete Guide to the AI Code Editor in 2026

Install Cursor on macOS, Windows, or Linux, then learn Tab, inline edit, Agent and Plan modes, rules, MCP, privacy, pricing, and what developers in Iran need to know.

Self-Hosting n8n on an Iranian Server with Docker: A Production Guide
September 24, 2026•26 min read

Self-Hosting n8n on an Iranian Server with Docker: A Production Guide

Run n8n on an Iranian server with Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, and HTTPS: domestic image mirrors, backups, upgrades, queue mode, local Ollama models, and Jalali dates.

An Empty AI Search Is Not Evidence That Nothing Exists
September 23, 2026•12 min read

An Empty AI Search Is Not Evidence That Nothing Exists

An assistant can return no matches before its search is finished. Check scope, continuation, partial failures and time before allowing a negative answer to close a task.

Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper Frontier Agents, Stricter Safeguards
September 22, 2026•16 min read

Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper Frontier Agents, Stricter Safeguards

Anthropic's September 22 model leads most agentic benchmarks, cuts cache reads by 60%, and brings four breaking API changes and Fable-class safeguards to Opus.

Claude Opus 5.5 System Card: Risk, Cyber, Alignment, and Welfare
September 22, 2026•20 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 System Card: Risk, Cyber, Alignment, and Welfare

A section-by-section reading of Anthropic's 230-page Opus 5.5 system card: CB and AI R&D thresholds, cyber evaluations, prompt injection, alignment audits, welfare, and benchmarks.

Building With Jev: State, Typed Questions, and Confidence Gates
September 22, 2026•13 min read

Building With Jev: State, Typed Questions, and Confidence Gates

A developer's reading of TypeSafe's Jev docs: request anatomy, choosing Choice, Score, or Noul, fan-out and composite scoring, confidence routing, failure modes, and evaluation.

What Is Jev? TypeSafe's AI Model for Decisions, Not Text
September 22, 2026•12 min read

What Is Jev? TypeSafe's AI Model for Decisions, Not Text

Jev returns typed answers with calibrated probabilities instead of prose. What TypeSafe's first System One model does, what its launch evidence shows, and where it falls short.

Keep AI Link Fetchers Out of Your Private Network
September 21, 2026•11 min read

Keep AI Link Fetchers Out of Your Private Network

A public-looking link can lead an AI tool toward private services. Separate public fetching from authenticated connectors, and authorize the connection at every hop.

How Unspoken Words Enter AI Meeting Transcripts
September 20, 2026•11 min read

How Unspoken Words Enter AI Meeting Transcripts

A fluent transcript can contain words nobody said. Preserve the recording, inspect silent spans and separate draft text from statements that become meeting evidence.

A Shared Queue Can Distort Your AI Experiment
September 19, 2026•11 min read

A Shared Queue Can Distort Your AI Experiment

When AI changes a shared queue, the control group changes too. Choose the right assignment boundary, account for carryover and measure the effect you plan to deploy.

Keep AI-Exported Text from Becoming Spreadsheet Formulas
September 18, 2026•11 min read

Keep AI-Exported Text from Becoming Spreadsheet Formulas

A valid export can still turn untrusted text into a spreadsheet formula. Choose explicit cell types, a known import path and tests that preserve data without granting it execution.