Chris Amico

The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself More →

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief. More →

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. More →

Leif Babin, who co-authored the excellent leadership book Extreme Ownership alongside Jocko Willink, once said:“When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”This quote contains a critical insight for... More →

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A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination—usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full … More →

We finally experienced a snowy winter, but this season didn’t come close to the hallmark bitter cold winters of Boston and the rest of New England. More →

For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient... More →

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And the problem isn’t limited to the region – across the US, nearly a third of homes are at high risk More →

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The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning... More →

Advice from areas of the world where press freedom is under attack. More →

Lipinski steered Nieman through a period of historic change for the news industry and deepened collaboration with the Harvard community More →

A battle over ownership and open-source software catches WordPress users in the middle. More →

Open, small LLMs have gotten good enough that non-technical people can benefit from having a local chatbot on their machine. More →

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He used the constitution to shatter the constitution. More →

After winning a national contest, the California man moved across the country to reopen Pawtucket’s Map Center where “the store is selling stories." More →

Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now." More →

Four simple steps to keep yourself safe online. More →