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Tau Robotics starts a $30/hour humanoid home-cleaning pilot (4 minute read)
Tau Robotics has opened an invite-only San Francisco pilot using humanoid robots for vacuuming, surface cleaning, trash removal, and deep cleaning around appliances. The robots combine AI with live human supervision, with each unit assigned to one appointment at a time during the initial roll-out. The service is priced at $30 per hour and is currently limited to selected households.
Jun 12 | Blog
I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.
A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.
SponsoredAug 03 | AI
A new era of AI testing (2 minute read)
Andrej Karpathy asked Opus 5 to make a Three.js render of the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings with a 1-million-token budget, and the model returned 5,500 lines of code that procedurally rendered the story. The LLM orchestrated the polygon assets and wrote code that animated it all according to the story. No human would have the stamina and patience to write something this custom, so they are a good test of what LLMs are capable of. A video of the generated animation is available in the post.
Aug 03 | DevOps
Deploy Enterprise PowerShell Modules Using Azure Artifacts (7 minute read)
Enterprise PowerShell modules can be distributed via a private Azure Artifacts feed using PSResourceGet, with Azure DevOps pipelines handling GitVersion-based semantic versioning, Key Vault code signing, and JEA restricting privileged runtime access.
Aug 03 | Tech
Software abundance (3 minute read)
While code is easier and faster to write, good software is still hard to get right as it needs care and requires good judgment.