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Recent Blog Posts

“Plan” Mode Is the Wrong Abstraction

Our interface forced users to prematurely “finish thinking” so that they could start building. Once implementation began, returning to the earlier chat-based reasoning felt like moving backward in the workflow. There was no going back up the waterfall. Plan mode is dead | Ayman Nadeem

AI at the State Level

“The good news is that state lawmakers are responding. The 2026 legislative session proved to be a watershed season. In prior years no more than a handful of lawmakers were willing to take on the tech lobby. This year we’ve seen a groundswell of state legislators stand up bills to protect our kids and demand accountability.”…

The Lobbyists are Driving the Conversation

A report from Public Citizen about the investments in lobbying on AI issues by Big Tech and the Chamber of Commerce. Key takeaway: they’re focused on limiting regulations.