Featured articles: Angela Aristidou, and Daniel Kocot.
Additional reading: Kurt Cagle & Chloe Shannon, Caleb Sponheim, Sarah Perez, and Scott Brinker.
News: Box, MadCap, Progress, and Fox..
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Opinion / Analysis
AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.
“AI is almost never used in the way it is benchmarked. Although researchers and industry have started to improve benchmarking by moving beyond static tests to more dynamic evaluation methods, these innovations resolve only part of the issue. That’s because they still evaluate AI’s performance outside the human teams and organizational workflows where its real-world performance ultimately unfolds.”
Angela Aristidou proposes a different approach that deserves attention. (6 min)
APIs don’t follow domains. They follow capabilities.
Why Domain Driven Design alone leads to leaky APIs and how capability thinking creates stable and evolvable interfaces
Daniel Kocot has some good architectural advice on APIs and domain driven design roles, and how to keep them in sync with desired outcomes over time. (4 min)
https://architecturalbytes.substack.com/p/apis-dont-follow-domains-they-follow
More Reading
- The Holonic Graph: A new architecture for knowledge that thinks via The Inference Engineer
- A concrete definition of an AI agent via NN/G
- Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds via TechCrunch
- Attribution 2.0: From the Tower of Babel to marketing’s control tower via chiefmartec
Content Technology News
MadCap updates MadCap Syndicate platform
Features enrich user experiences, content management and integration, maximize quality of AI-generated content, and improves effectiveness of AI agents.
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/press-release/madcap-syndicate-brings-ai-enablement-to-corporate-content/
Box unveils the Box Agent
Acts as a unified AI engine across Box, leveraging the latest reasoning models to search company files, analyze critical data, and generate content.
https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2026/Box-Unveils-the-Box-Agent-to-Transform-How-Enterprises-Work-With-Content/default.aspx
Progress Software updates Sitefinity Generative CMS
Enables operationalization of GenAI across websites, portals & digital experiences – supporting AI search, conversational interfaces & personalized content delivery.
https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-software-delivers-sitefinity-generative-cms-ai-driven
Foxit tool detects hidden security threats inside PDFs
PDF Action Inspector proactively scans documents for embedded JavaScript and self-modifying behaviors that can bypass redaction, expose sensitive data, or alter document output.
https://www.foxit.com/company/press/12181.html
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