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From Benchmarks to Reality: Decoding the New Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, GPT 5.1 - What's Really Changed?
Why "vibes" are just downstream effects of hardware topology.
Dec 8
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Michael Quoc
The Glass Box Mandate: Why the future of AI is "ugly."
Moving from the "Black Box" era to the "Audit" era of design.
Dec 1
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Michael Quoc
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November 2025
The 10 Immutable Laws of Context Engineering
Why 99% of AI projects fail at the prompt layer, and the architectural physics of the ones that win.
Nov 18
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Michael Quoc
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The Operating System for AI-Native Companies: Building in Public
Proof-of-Work systems and Proof-of-Thesis frameworks for architecting AI-native companies
Nov 17
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Michael Quoc
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Stop Prompting. Start Architecting.
Why the "Prompt" is a Mirage and How to Build a True AI-Native Operating System
Nov 5
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Michael Quoc
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The Age of Agents is Here. Stop Designing Chatbots.
The deterministic GUI is dead. The new job of AI product design is to stop designing screens and start architecting trust for probabilistic, agentic…
Nov 3
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Michael Quoc
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October 2025
AI is a Relevance Engine, Not a Truth Oracle
Deconstructing the "pure automation" myth and the game-theoretic architecture of our "Human Compute Moat."
Oct 27
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Michael Quoc
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