Posts by Blake Coleman
MIT Has Shown Us the Iceberg Beneath Microsoft’s X-Ray: What 151 Million Simulated Workers Reveal About AI’s Hidden Labor Market
With new data from MIT, we follow-up on our post titled Microsoft Research Just Mapped the Future of Work: What 200,000 AI Conversations Across 923 Jobs Reveal TL;DR FAQ: MIT’s Project Iceberg Fills In What the Microsoft Study Couldn’t See Late last year, we walked through what Microsoft Research found when it analyzed 200,000 real…
Read MoreRobots Can’t Feel a Thing. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
TL;DR FAQ: Can Robots Actually Feel? The Truth About Tactile Intelligence in 2026 Imagine asking a coworker to hand you a ripe tomato. They walk over, reach out, and crush it instantly. Not out of malice. They just had no idea how hard they were squeezing. That is the daily reality of most robots in…
Read MoreFrom Software Engineer to AI Builder: A Practical Guide
TL;DR FAQ: Can You Move From Software Engineering Into AI Without Starting Over? Some people think “building AI” means you have to be able to train neural networks in a research lab. It doesn’t. The field has split into three distinct layers, and two of them are wide open to people who already write code…
Read MoreArtemis II Is a Signal, Not Just a Mission
TL;DR FAQ: Artemis II is More Than a Mission When Artemis II launched in April 2026, it did more than break a fifty-year drought of human travel beyond low-Earth orbit. It marked a historic pivot from short-term demonstrations of supremacy to the steady, repeatable work of establishing operational infrastructure on another world. At STEM Search…
Read MoreThe Claude Code Leak: What It Actually Means for You (No Matter Your Level)
TL;DR FAQ: The Claude Code Leak and Its Lessons Turns out it wasn’t an elaborate April Fools joke. On March 31, 2026, one of the most sophisticated AI tools ever built accidentally left its front door wide open. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, shipped a routine software update that accidentally included a debugging file nobody…
Read MoreThe End of the Social Contract: When Silicon Valley Became Liable
TL;DR FAQ: Is social media becoming legally accountable for its design? For most of the internet era, social media operated on an unwritten deal. Platforms would connect the world, users would supply the content, and governments would mostly stay out of the way. The understanding was simple: these companies were neutral pipes, not responsible actors.…
Read MoreYes, You Should Absolutely Use AI to Make Cuts to Your Engineering Team
(Just kidding. Here’s what going agentic should look, and why the companies treating it as a headcount play are going to regret it.) TL;DR FAQ: Should You Use AI to Cut Your Engineering Team in 2026? Most teams, most companies are not ready for this. Not because the tools are hard to use, but because…
Read MoreHouston, We Have a Problem: Space Is Getting Crowded. Here’s Who’s Cleaning It Up.
TL;DR FAQ: Is the Space Economy and Orbital Data Centers Actually Ready to Scale? There’s a fantasy version of the space economy that gets a lot of airtime. Hyperscale data centers float in orbit, processing AI workloads cheaply, beaming results back to Earth in milliseconds. SpaceX and xAI merge into one giant vertically integrated machine.…
Read MoreThe $3 Billion Lesson From Spartanburg: How the Next Phase of AI Infrastructure Gets Built
TL;DR FAQ: What Does Spartanburg’s Data Center Decision Mean for AI Infrastructure and Hiring? The United States is entering the largest digital infrastructure expansion in its history. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and enterprise data workloads are driving unprecedented demand for data centers, power systems, and fiber networks. Hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital…
Read More250,000 Manufacturers. One Story Nobody’s Telling.
TL;DR FAQ: How Mid-Market Manufacturers Are Using Cobots to Compete and Win Every week there’s another piece about a robotics startup raising $200M, or a giant automaker opening a gleaming new smart factory. Great photos. Inspiring CEO quotes. And if you run a 200-person plant in Ohio or Texas or the Carolinas, you read those…
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