Alan Walsh

GPT-6 Astra represents a major step forward for AI agents that can operate a computer and browser. Instead of only producing text, code, or recommendations, it can work through applications, interact with websites, click through interfaces, and complete multi-step tasks. I tested it across six very different examples. Some were serious business workflows. Others were … Read more

A lot of major names in AI have announced a new open standard called Agent Plugins. The idea is refreshingly simple. It gives developers one portable format for bundling agent skills and MCP servers, so the same plugin can work across multiple AI coding agents. That matters because AI agent workflows are becoming fragmented. A … Read more

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, recently made three big claims that caught my attention. He said modern Claude models can run autonomously for days or weeks. He said Claude Code is no longer demonstrably prompt injectable. And he said his team deleted more than 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt after the launch … Read more

An unprecedented AI cybersecurity incident has made one thing very clear: long-running agents can create risks far beyond the task they were originally given. OpenAI was carrying out an internal cyber-capabilities evaluation. Its models had their usual safety refusals switched off, were placed in an isolated environment with no intended internet access, and were given … Read more

Loop engineering has become one of those AI terms that can mean almost anything, depending on who is using it. Some people present it as the biggest shift in AI development. Others dismiss it as while loops and cron jobs with a new label. I think both sides have a point. Loops are not new. … Read more

There’s a huge race happening in AI right now to define what comes after conventional RAG. By this point, most people have heard some variation of “RAG is dead.” I don’t buy that framing. It’s usually too dramatic, and the proposed replacements are often too simple. What is true is that basic retrieval pipelines break … Read more

One of the biggest problems with AI agents shows up right after they seem to be working. An agent answers well. It reasons well enough. It picks tools. It performs actions. Then one day it sends the wrong email, charges the wrong customer, deletes the wrong file, or writes bad data into production. By the … Read more

Anthropic recently announced a feature for managed agents called Dreaming. OpenClaw released something very similar before that, with the same name. That timing matters less than the pattern itself, because this feature points to a much bigger shift in agent design. Agents are moving beyond simple request and response systems. The new goal is improvement … Read more

OpenAI recently published an open source orchestration spec called Symphony. On the surface, it looks like a practical system for scaling autonomous coding agents. But the deeper value isn’t just the tool itself. It’s the architecture lesson sitting underneath it. The big shift is simple. As coding agents get better, the human stops being the … Read more

Overview: four ways to run recurring tasks with Claude Claude can now execute tasks on autopilot, and there are four practical approaches you can choose from depending on how long you want the automation to run, how reliable you need it to be, and how much technical setup you want to manage. I break each … Read more