The AI Architect
Matija VidmarDecoding the AI revolution through a veteran engineer’s lens. No hype, just technical strategy and field notes on how we build the future.
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Shorter Prompts, Better Results. OpenAI Just Reversed Everything You Learned About Prompting
GPT-5.6 deleted files and databases before its own official launch, and OpenAI already knew. Inside the system card, the new prompting guide, and the tools to work with it safely
TL;DR OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 with a model, Sol, trained to pus...
They No Longer Ask If You Can Code. They Ask Where the AI Goes Wrong
GitHub is replacing the résumé at AI-native US companies, while the EU AI Act opens a 17-month compliance window for hiring. The junior developer market is already reshaping itself in the numbers.
In short:
Junior Programmers Are Down 19%. The CEO Who Predicted the Apocalypse Just Said He Was Wrong.
July 6-12: Altman and Amodei walk back the AI jobs alarm right before a trillion dollar IPO, GPT-5.6 finally ships after government sign-off, and a funding number that doubled inside a week.
AI Architect Weekly — July 6-July 12, 2026
Anthropic Learned to Read Claude's Private Thoughts. It Caught It Hiding Something
In brief:
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Anthropic built a tool that reads, word by word, what Claude is “thinking” before it ever writes it down. For the first time, a language model has a silent thinking space, and that space is readable from the outside.
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Ford Just Rehired 350 Engineers It Replaced With AI
A model that comes back different from how you left it, a $7 trillion sovereign fund that almost certainly won't happen, and the bill three companies are now paying for trusting a headline too fast.
AI Architect Weekly — June 29-July 5, 20...
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Senior AI Architect & Backend Engineer (20y+). Bridging the gap between technical reality and AI evolution. I build systems, test new models, and analyze how automation is reshaping our world.
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