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Screenshot of a tweet by Pedro Domingos marked FALSE. Text reads: "Anthropic has no strategy. Claude Code started as someone's side project, and so did Cowork and MCP.

Strategy is a choice, not a plan

A strategy is the hard choice about direction. A plan is what comes after.

21 February 2026 · 7 min read

Horizontal bar chart from Anthropic showing agent deployment across domains. Software engineering leads at 49.7%, followed by back-office automation at 9.1%. Remaining 17 domains range from 7.1% to 0.8%, including marketing, sales, finance, data analysis, and other business areas.

This chart is a roadmap of which industries get transformed next

Anthropic's API data shows the AI adoption curve by industry. Where does your job sit?

20 February 2026 · 4 min read

Alt text: Black-and-white woodcut-style illustration of an inverted pyramid balanced on its tip atop a jagged mountain. The narrow tip of the pyramid is made from cracked wooden alphabet and number blocks, while the wider upper faces are filled with intricate gears, circuitry, star charts, and a glowing brain. A dramatic, star-filled cosmic sky and swirling clouds surround the scene, emphasising scale, fragility, and tension.

The AGI debate has it all wrong: AI is Intelligence Upside Down

AI's intelligence is inverted: tasks we find hard are easy, simple tasks are surprisingly difficult.

6 February 2026 · 13 min read

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