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How to Actually Build an AI Agent (Without the Hype)
engineering·3 min read

How to Actually Build an AI Agent (Without the Hype)

AI agents are everywhere right now. But honestly? Most explanations are either so vague they're useless or so drowning in jargon you'll give up after page two. So let's fix that. Here's how to build one. No fluff. Just steps that actually work.

Pedro Pinho·23/Apr/2026
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ChatGPT 5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7: Which Tool Should You Actually Use?
industry insights·3 min read

ChatGPT 5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7: Which Tool Should You Actually Use?

It's happening again. Just as you get comfortable with one software tool, another one launches and suddenly everyone's wondering whether they need to switch. This week, we watched OpenAI drop ChatGPT 5.5 (literally today), and a week before that, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7. So which one should you care about? Here's the thing: they're both incredible, but they're built for different things. Let me break this down without all the technical nonsense.

Pedro Pinho·23/Apr/2026
ProductivityWorkToolsEfficiencyAutomationSoftwareDevelopment
How We're Using Claude's New "Effort Dial" for HR Tasks
engineering·3 min read

How We're Using Claude's New "Effort Dial" for HR Tasks

Anthropic just shipped something that sounds boring but isn't. They added a dial to Claude. You can now tell it how hard to think. Turn it down: fast, cheap, simple answers. Turn it up: slow, expensive, deep thinking. You pick. Every time.

Pedro Pinho·17/Mar/2026
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Why Yann LeCun Bet $1 Billion That LLMs Are a Dead EndFeatured
industry insights·3 min read

Why Yann LeCun Bet $1 Billion That LLMs Are a Dead End

Yann LeCun — Turing Award winner, ex-head of Meta AI, one of deep learning's original architects — walked away from Meta and raised $1.03 billion for a new company called AMI Labs. It's Europe's largest seed round ever. His bet: the entire LLM paradigm is wrong, and real machine intelligence needs a completely different foundation.

Pedro Pinho·16/Mar/2026
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Building the future
industry insights·3 min read

Building the future

What building the future told us in the first day?

Pedro Pinho·12/Mar/2026
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