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Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
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The System Beneath the System
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Wednesday, 10 September 2025
AI & Machine Learning
District Court Erred in Denying Section 285 Fees to Prevailing Party: Federal Circuit
In Future Link Systems, LLC v. Realtek Semiconductor Corp., the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the …
Thursday, 14 August 2025
Startups & Investment
New trend: extreme hours at AI startups
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop whil…
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
AI & Machine Learning
AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that under…
Friday, 7 March 2025
Knowledge Management
How we built enterprise search to be secure and private
Many don’t know that “Slack” is in fact a backronym—it stands for “Searchable Log of all Communication and Knowledge”. A…
Saturday, 16 November 2024
AI & Machine Learning
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is mad…
Monday, 9 September 2024
AI & Machine Learning
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by bench…
Saturday, 3 August 2024
AI & Machine Learning
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an ency…
Saturday, 20 April 2024
AI & Machine Learning
Financial Market Applications of LLMs
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagin…
Thursday, 21 December 2023
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, th…
Saturday, 16 December 2023
Salmon in the Loop
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformati…
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
AI & Machine Learning
A more focused, productive Slack
Does this look familiar? With more types of work happening on Slack, teams becoming larger, and new features like Canvas…
Monday, 30 October 2023
Re-designing Slack on Mobile
Just like the world around us, Slack has grown and changed significantly over the last decade. What started out as a sim…
Friday, 27 October 2023
A new visual language for Slack
As we embarked on the largest evolution to Slack’s information architecture, us designers believed it was the perfect op…
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
How our biggest redesign yet came to be
The timing was right. We were adding in new features like huddles, canvases, lists, and others into a UI system that was…
Saturday, 14 October 2023
Neural algorithmic reasoning
In this article, we will talk about classical computation : the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate …
Saturday, 7 October 2023
AI & Machine Learning
The Artificiality of Alignment
This essay first appeared in Reboot . Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated…
Saturday, 30 September 2023
AI & Machine Learning
AI & Machine Learning
When AI is too verbose, full of repetition and says sorry for being an AI…
Dear readers, I was triggered to write this post because ChatGPT apologies way too much, takes too long to get into the …
Wednesday, 23 August 2023
AI & Machine Learning
AI & Machine Learning
How I use AI when blogging and writing
Hi readers, Over the years, I’ve shared lessons and tips from writing a professional blog — previously 10 ye…
Monday, 21 August 2023
Creator Economy 2.0: What we’ve learned, why it’s hard, and what’s next
There’s been a big wave of Creator Economy startups over the past few years, as the rise of social media platforms…
Monday, 14 August 2023
The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions
A simple question The last few years have been crazy, and no wonder there’s a ton of folks thinking about making j…
Thursday, 3 August 2023
Living and creating our values on the Slack Creative team
I’ve spent the past five years at Slack building both the Slack brand and the Slack creative team. While I’m immensely p…
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Complex, compact, celebratory: Bringing the Add to MPDM feature to life in Slack
While Slack fields many requests, the creation of a feature to add people to a direct message was something our design t…
Thursday, 27 April 2023
A behind-the-scenes look at building the Slack Design illustration library
When Slack’s new website launched in 2017, I felt like a kid in a candy store. As a brand designer, there’s …
Thursday, 20 April 2023
My time as a Year Up intern at Slack
It may be weird to say my life changed because of an app most people use to fall down multi-hour rabbit holes to watch p…
Thursday, 13 April 2023
How we design for admin experiences: baking good content into the process
Hi, my name is Stella, a designer working on the Slack platform administration experience. My job is to take care of a s…
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Design Ops on being changemakers, team cheerleaders and great listeners
Hey friends! MJ and Sheila here to talk to you about Design Ops at Slack, our passion for the field, and the guiding pri…
Thursday, 30 March 2023
AI & Machine Learning
The myth of the lightbulb moment: How to actually come up with ideas
A huge international campaign. A compelling headline on a city billboard. A viral video. They all have one thing in comm…
Thursday, 23 March 2023
What we’ve learned about designing for accessibility from our users
Slack’s accessibility team recently launched a series of changes to make navigating around Slack more reliable and effic…
Monday, 13 March 2023
AI & Machine Learning
How to bring your work (and yourself) to internship interviews at Slack
When you’re looking for an internship, there can be pressure to have all the right stuff—enrollment in a design program …
Monday, 12 December 2022
AI & Machine Learning
AI & Machine Learning
Praying to the God of Valuation
Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late…