The latest from our team

Intelligent applications need new interaction patterns
Challenging the Chatbot
June 26, 2026
Analysis

How we define "done" for AI agents using verifiable contracts
Contract Engineering
April 9, 2026
Essay

Tooling and infrastructure for autonomous software engineering
Unblocking Agents
March 31, 2026
Essay

Give agents modular functions instead of prescriptive workflows
Primitives over Pipelines
March 4, 2026
Essay

A first-principles understanding of coding agents
How does Claude Code actually work?
February 10, 2026
Analysis

A quick overview of some of the cool projects at the Lab this summer.
My Summer at Rubric
September 8, 2024
Essay

How trends in open-source large-language models are converging to usher in cheap, abundant intelligence. We examine the state of LLM capability, cost, and timeline.
Planning for near-free AI
January 7, 2024
Essay