design

The Build Layer Is Cheap. The Hard Part Is the Layer Nobody Wants.
Andrew Ng put more than a hundred production AI agents into a public repository last week, and the message underneath the generosity is unambiguous: the build layer is now a commodity. Anyone can assemble an agent, wire it to an API, and call the result a stack. This is the moment the industry has been…

A Gram of Mostly Empty Space
A single gram of a metal-organic framework can hold an internal surface area larger than a basketball court. Let that sit for a second. The material fits on your fingertip, and if you unfolded all of its inner walls flat, they would cover the floor of a gym. The trick is not density. It is…