A few months ago, I injured my back, resulting in debilitating nighttime pain. To make matters worse, the pain meds my doctor prescribed weren’t working, and I hadn’t gotten a good night’s rest for weeks. Desperate and...
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Entrepreneur Mark Pincus is unquestionably best known for founding and running Zynga. Its products—especially FarmVille—fueled the social gaming craze that took over...
In Apple’s newest ad, its Mac mini is a muscly bodybuilder, a donut-spinning race car, and a...
Microsoft has pushed back detection and question answering by the Teams Facilitator to November, after initially scheduling General Availability for June. Teams Facilitator is an AI assistant that joins meetings. It tracks...
cPanel has released patches for a security flaw affecting domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM), which could allow code execution as the root user. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE...
The Reality Check Every Founder DreadedWhen you enter a fast-paced hackathon, the most dangerous thing you can do is fall in love with your first idea.When we joined the RevenueCat Shipathon 2026, our original plan was to build...
You launch an LLM feature. Users like it. Usage grows. Someone adds conversation history. Someone else adds RAG. Then tools. Then retries. Then an evaluator that uses another LLM. A few months later, finance asks a question...
Featured image source: Original AI-assisted illustration created for this article. The AI agent...
TLDR: I build a structural gate that refuses AI coding agents’ writes before they land — hard budgets on file size and imports, no human override. Last week it ran for the first time on someone else’s machine, on a real project,...
Early in my product career, I worked on a tool used by market participants to make daily...
While dipping my toes in Italian waters during my summer holidays, the Extropic’s Z1 announcement was made. Let me explain what the chip actually does, then get into why the “did they build a room-temperature quantum...
I’m a few weeks into building a mobile app solo. It’s in the identity and habit-change space, still early, still unnamed publicly. This isn’t a launch post. It’s an honest account of a process decision...
