July 2025.

AI is a disruptive force rewriting how we build, code, govern, and even understand intelligence itself. From “context engineering” and vibe coding tools to the rise of AI-powered labs and self-directed agents, the boundaries of software development are rapidly dissolving. Meanwhile, critical flaws—like hallucinated court rulings, misleading UI, or energy-hungry data centers—highlight the risks of scaling too fast without clear oversight. Governments wrestle with regulation as CEOs push back, researchers hide prompts, and users report being haunted by buggy agents. Questions of trust, transparency, discrimination, and design ethics surface alongside deeper inquiries into agency, compliance, and the ideology of AI itself. This collection captures a snapshot of the AI moment: messy, contradictory, and deeply consequential.