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You’re in the market for a “Gizmo.” A shop has five Gizmos available to buy, but the shopkeeper has bad news: two of them are malfunctioning, and she doesn’t know which ones are working and which ones ...

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In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...