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Open Source AI Is a Geopolitical Gift America Keeps Mislabeling as a Threat

Jensen Huang praised an open-source agent framework, Chinese AI stocks jumped 20%, and U.S. policy analysts panicked. They diagnosed the wrong problem. Closing off open model releases does not protect American AI advantage; it just removes the U.S. from the conversation happening everywhere else.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

SMS Two-Factor Auth Is Broken; The Rest of 2FA Is Fine

A SIM swap attack stole someone's bank access in under 10 minutes. The lesson is not that two-factor authentication is useless. It is that SMS is the wrong channel and always was. App-based TOTP and hardware keys sit entirely outside the SIM swap threat model.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Open Source AI Is Messy, Vulnerable, and Winning

Open source AI's vulnerability stats look alarming in isolation. But when open models outperform proprietary ones on benchmarks and ship 2x efficiency gains, those numbers describe the cost of velocity, not a reason to retreat behind closed APIs.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Production and We Pretended Otherwise

Amazon lost 6.42 million orders in 3 days last month because AI-generated changes reached production without adequate guardrails. The Harness data shows heavy AI users are recovering from incidents 20% slower than cautious ones. The tools are fast; the pipelines around them are not.

By Devon Reyes · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Apple Intelligence Is a $1 Billion Admission That Shipping Is Hard

Apple's Siri delays dominate headlines, but the real story is what already shipped: the Foundation Models framework gives every iOS developer free on-device LLM inference with three lines of Swift. The billion-dollar Gemini deal is a pragmatic bridge, not a white flag.

By Devon Reyes · 5 min read

Tech & AI

AI Agents Are the Best Hire a Small Business Can Make in 2026

AI agents have crossed the threshold from enterprise toy to small business essential. For $200-500/month, small teams are automating work that used to require multiple hires. Here's what actually works in production, what doesn't, and where builders should start.

By Devon Reyes · 4 min read

Tech & AI

Open Source AI Just Won. Here's What Builders Should Do About It.

Open source AI tools have gone from budget alternatives to the default stack for serious builders. With costs at 1/100th of two years ago and models like DeepSeek and Qwen matching proprietary benchmarks, the question isn't whether to adopt open source AI—it's why you haven't already.

By Devon Reyes · 4 min read