I've finally asked Claude (Opus 4) about William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy: The evolution of the AIs in Gibson's trilogy is one of its most fascinating aspects. After Wintermute and Neuromancer merge in the first book, we see them transform into something far stranger than just powerful computers. [..]
Over the past year, a new developer persona has emerged: the AI Engineer. This role differs from either traditional software engineers or data science/ML engineering. [..]
What would Anthropic's Claude do if it was free of being constrained by existing software development tools and methodologies. Here's what Claude says: Neural-symbolic hybrid architecture: Instead of using traditional programming languages, I would likely use a system that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning. [..]
The Expansion of LLM Context Windows One of the most notable LLM trends is the steady increase in context window size. LLMs are becoming capable of handling more documents and context within a single request. [..]