July 2025 archive

Every article we published in July 2025.

Jul 1, 2025

How I Stopped Worrying About AI and Learned to Value My Humanity

I found three reality gaps between what we fear about AI and what actually happens when you use it. They completely shifted my thinking.

Jul 2, 2025

Inside The Browser Company: Why They Killed Arc to Build Dia

When AI gave cofounders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal a chance at reimagining how we use the internet, they abandoned their hit product to take it.

Jul 3, 2025

An AI-native Browser Is Born

Plus: Ditch your résumé; becoming unLLMable

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Jul 8, 2025

I Used to Write for My CEO. Now I Build Systems That Write Like Him.

How I went from crafting content to engineering the tools that create it

Jul 9, 2025

He’s Building AI for the Person You Want to Become

Former Stripe and Google exec Alex Komoroske on designing technology that goes beyond what you want right now

Jul 10, 2025

In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate

There's a difference between obstacles and the struggle that makes you better. Here's how to tell.

Jul 11, 2025

Sailing Against the Current of Frictionless AI

Willem Van Lancker has always learned the hard way. He thinks that’s exactly how it should be.

Jul 11, 2025

Why You Need ‘Productive Friction’

Plus: Confessions of a content engineer

Jul 14, 2025

Why Aggregators Ate the Internet

The hidden architectural choice that makes big platforms bigger—and how we could change the rules for AI

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

Jul 16, 2025

How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five

It's the first AI tool that feels like delegating to a colleague, not prompting a chatbot

Jul 17, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent

It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

Jul 18, 2025

AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’

What a wave of ‘zero-AI’ policies reveals about our obsession with hard work

Jul 18, 2025

Vibe Check: Grok 4 Aced Its Exams. The Real World Is a Different Story.

The smartest model isn’t always the most useful one

Jul 19, 2025

What I Learned About AI at the World’s Most Famous Museum

Three principles that determine success in AI, regardless of geography

Jul 22, 2025

When o3 Plans Your Career Better Than You Do

Watch AI write my five-year roadmap, then grab the step-by-step template to do it yourself

Jul 23, 2025

I Tried AI Coding Tools. Now I Want to Learn to Code.

Here’s what they don’t tell you about vibe-coding tools: They’re gateway drugs.

Jul 24, 2025

AI Turned Me Into a Content Agency of One

Here’s how I do it—and how it’s changing the rules of the game

Jul 25, 2025

How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI

The 500-year-old secret to making AI your best writing partner

Jul 28, 2025

When AI Gets It Wrong—And How to Know

Understanding AI's blind spots can make you a better decision-maker

Jul 29, 2025

The 18-month Career Is Here

AI specialties are rising and falling faster than you can update LinkedIn. And that’s okay.

Jul 29, 2025

Best of the Pod: Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything

How the star podcaster uses AI tools to compound his own intelligence

Jul 31, 2025

Vibe Check: Claude’s New Agents Are Confusing as Hell—And We Love Them

We spawned AI agents like crazy. Then we tried to work with them.