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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Apple's 'Illusion of Thinking' Paper Argues LLMs Don't Reason — They Just Pattern-Match Convincingly

A new Apple research paper with a deliberately provocative title makes a systematic case that today's large language models, including ChatGPT, simulate reasoning without performing it — and the implications for the entire industry are hard to overstate.

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A Psychologist's Playbook for Fixing AI Memory: Conway, Damasio, and the Case Against Vector Databases

A detailed thread argues that decades-old psychology research on human memory already contains the blueprint for solving AI agents' persistent memory failures — and that the industry is ignoring it in favor of brute-force retrieval.

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The CLAUDE.md File That Went Viral: A Production Playbook for Claude Code

A structured configuration file for Anthropic's Claude Code agent is circulating widely among developers, offering a concrete template for subagent orchestration, self-improvement loops, and workflow management that many are calling the best practical guide to agentic coding.

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Apple's 'Illusion of Thinking' Paper Argues LLMs Don't Reason — They Just Pattern-Match Convincingly

A Psychologist's Playbook for Fixing AI Memory: Conway, Damasio, and the Case Against Vector Databases

The CLAUDE.md File That Went Viral: A Production Playbook for Claude Code

Most People Still Don't Know What Claude Is — And That Should Reframe How You Think About the AI Market

AI Agents Fail 97% of Real Freelance Tasks, Production Reports Suggest

Bharat1 AI Plans $650 Million AI Research Park in Bengaluru

An AI Candidate Is Running for Office in Colombia's Indigenous Legislative Seat

US Quality vs. Asia Speed: The Healthcare AI Divide

Amul Deploys AI Assistant 'Sarlaben' for Cattle Health in Rural India

ETHDenver's Main Character This Year: AI and Robotics, Not Crypto

Musk's AI Safety Pitch: Maximum Truth-Seeking Over Maximum Control

The Programmer Identity Crisis, in One Viral Meme