Maya / How to Read an AI Release Like a Builder (AI Builder's Field Guide promo)

Every week another AI release 'changes everything.' Most of it is theater. Here's the method I use to find the one part that actually changes how you build — three questions, run on every release: 1. What did the demo skip? The demo is never the hard part. 2. What shipped quietly, with no keynote clip? The buried feature is usually the real one. 3. Can you use it by Friday, on real work? A projection curve is not a feature. This month I ran it on the four biggest releases — Mozilla hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos, OpenAI's Spud going to defenders, what actually shipped at Code w/ Claude 2026, and the AI engineering books worth your time. All four, decoded, in one field guide. Comment BUILDER for the link — or it's in bio. — maya