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When a tool call fails with an unhandled exception, most frameworks surface it clearly — LangChain’s error-handling tooling and the OpenAI Agents SDK both surface visible errors into the agent’s trace. What happens when a tool returns a 503 or times out quietly is different: the agent receives what looks like a valid result, just…

The rage filling your LinkedIn feed this month, the algorithm rants, the Substack discovery complaints, the essays announcing the machines have finally won, is built on real numbers pointed at the wrong conclusion. That is the argument Tony Uphoff made in his Substack post. (Uphoff and I both worked at Ziff-Davis between 1988 and 1993.…

Go beyond Do Not Disturb: control what alerts you get and when instead of being overwhelmed with pings all the time.

The dominant narrative aroundAIinsoftware engineeringrevolves aroundcode generation. Autocomplete, test generation, entire functions written from aprompt— the demonstrations are impressive, the claims are ambitious and anyone reading aboutAI-assisted engineeringmight reasonably conclude that AI is good for helping people write code faster.

For years, the customer relationship management (CRM) platform has been the unquestioned center of the enterprise universe for managing the customer lifecycle. It’s the system of record, the source of truth and the hub around which customer service, sales and marketing operations (are supposed to) revolve. This CRM-centric approach, however, is rapidly becoming obsolete. The…

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and relationships beat. She spent most of her pre-Lifehacker career covering media and politics for outlets like Us Weekly, CNN, The Daily Dot, Mashable, Glamour, and InStyle. In…

North Texas’ innovation economy is on display at Southern Methodist University this week.