Why this site exists, and what high-signal AI coverage looks like

Most AI coverage today is press-release recycling, hype-cycle commentary, or doomerism. There's a gap for technically literate, source-respecting analysis aimed at builders. This is what we're going to try to fill.

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The gap in AI coverage

If you build with AI tools or follow the research seriously, you've probably noticed the same thing: the volume of coverage has exploded, but the signal-to-noise ratio has gotten worse.

The general-tech press treats every model release as either a revolution or a disappointment, often within the same week. The specialist outlets are better but increasingly captured by access journalism. The independent newsletters are valuable but scattered.

What's missing is a stable place where technically literate readers can get high-signal coverage that respects sources, cites evidence, and doesn't flatten everything into hype or doom.

What we'll do differently

Three commitments:

Source-respecting. Headlines link to originals. Summaries are short. Body text isn't republished without permission. This is the difference between aggregation and theft.

Technically literate. If a paper makes a claim, we'll quote the paper. If a benchmark is gamed, we'll say so. If a release is a wrapper around a known technique, we'll note that too.

Independent. No advertising. No access deals. No incentive to flatter incumbents or punish challengers.

What this isn't

Not a generalist AI ethics outlet. Not a doom shop. Not a vibe-aggregator. Not a place to get hot takes on whether AGI is here.

The cadence

News: daily, when there's something to report. Blog: weekly or so, longer-form, when something deserves analysis. Podcast: roughly biweekly to start, growing if the format works.

One last thing

This site is built and run on private infrastructure. It's plain HTML and CSS served by a Python http.server. There is no JavaScript framework, no analytics, no tracking, no newsletter pop-up. We're trying to model the kind of internet we actually want to read.

If that sounds like something you'd want to follow, the RSS feed is at /feed.xml.