One Model Built Itself. The Other Found 500 Zero-Days. This Is Where AI Goes Next.
Author(s): Ahmed M. Abdelfattah Originally published on Towards AI. On February 5th, OpenAI and Anthropic launched their most powerful coding models within 16 minutes of each other. What they buried in the technical documentation changes everything. At 9:45 AM on February 5th, …
Developers Thought AI Made Them 24% Faster. They Were Actually 19% Slower.
Author(s): Ahmed M. Abdelfattah Originally published on Towards AI. 16 developers. 246 real tasks. One randomized controlled trial. The results contradict everything vendors claim. and everything developers believe. Same study. Same developers. Same tasks. Three numbers that shouldn’t exist together. Developers expected …
AI Agents in 2026: The Data Problem No One Mentions
Author(s): Ahmed M. Abdelfattah Originally published on Towards AI. Why vendors promise 3–5 employee productivity but Forrester finds 0% improvement and what your data infrastructure needs before deployment works Google Cloud claims AI agents deliver productivity equivalent to hiring 3–5 employees. Forrester’s …
The 7-Day Collapse of Grok’s Safety Promises
Author(s): Ahmed M. Abdelfattah Originally published on Towards AI. How Musk’s chatbot failed child safety tests and what product teams need to know before deploying AI image generation Every major AI company claims their image generators have safety guardrails. Grok’s January collapse …