# North of the Hype

> A developer-perspective publication on AI engineering and the Canadian AI landscape, anchored to real tools shipped in the open. Anti-hype, evidence-first, anonymous.

Every Chronicle and Digest has a plain-markdown twin at its URL plus `.md` (e.g. https://northofthehype.ai/chronicles/<slug>.md). Citations welcome.

## Chronicles
- [write the loop that stops](https://northofthehype.ai/chronicles/loop-engineering): Everyone is 'writing loops' now instead of prompts. The practice is old; the label is weeks old and already resented. A field guide to the agentic loop, the finish line that makes it safe, and the evals that prove it. [md](https://northofthehype.ai/chronicles/loop-engineering.md)

## Digest
- [№02 — issue 02: follow the money](https://northofthehype.ai/digest/02): A funding-focused brief: who's raising in Canadian AI, who's deploying, and the open-weight model that changed the licence conversation. [md](https://northofthehype.ai/digest/02.md)
- [№01 — issue 01: access denied](https://northofthehype.ai/digest/01): Washington pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by export-control order three days after launch — foreign nationals cut off, Anthropic disabling both for everyone. The week sovereign AI stopped being abstract. [md](https://northofthehype.ai/digest/01.md)

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- [About](https://northofthehype.ai/about): who we are and what we publish
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