The Quality Layer Finds Its Price.
2026-07-26 Daily Report — The week's loudest Hacker News thread asked why software keeps getting worse as coding gets solved, Anthropic shipped a context-engineering guide that treats the prompt as an input to a loop, and Sandhill's investors declared the model-wrapper startup dead — three signals converging on the same read: the value left the generation step and moved to the verification layer nobody has built yet.