Explorations of AI, LLMs, and how intelligent systems reshape culture and craft. Practical where useful, philosophical when necessary.
A friend sent three questions about agents over WhatsApp. Where do they live? What's the interface? Where do they report back? The answers reveal a mental model most people are missing — and why the plumber has to live inside the house.
There are only two positions in the 2026 labor market: principal of your own agents, or labor for someone else's. Jack Dorsey just ran the proof.
AI labs burn out their employees with civilization-scale competitive pressure. That burnout radiates outward — to developers, then educators, then anyone whose tools keep shifting every 90 days. The release cadence is the stress wave. Everyone downstream absorbs it.
We tried to add video to a brand-new voice-note podcast. The laptop overheated, OBS hung, life intervened — and the failure mode was the lesson. Reality doesn’t say ‘no’. It rate-limits you until your pipeline matches your ambition.
I recorded a voice note while cooking dinner, describing a feature I wanted. By the time the onions were done, the feature existed — as the blog post itself. A builder's honest account of two weeks running an AI orchestrator, the maddening overhead of making it work, and why the compound returns are worth it.
The cognitive handoff didn't stop at productivity. It kept going—into therapy, teaching, coaching. The economics are brutal, and we're approaching a fork: wake up or become indistinguishable from the algorithms feeding us.
Training your replacement looks like suicide until you realize it's the forcing function that prevents decay. Rick's layoff story and the paradox of voluntary obsolescence.
Your government thinks GenZ protests are chaos. They are actually the most sophisticated distributed coordination in history - and Morocco's gaming generation holds the blueprint for 21st century governance.
I got called AI slop by Hacker News for using technological leverage. Twenty years ago, a teacher accused me of plagiarizing Wikipedia for typing an essay. Same pattern, different tools. Time to state my position on AI use publicly.
Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.
Axiom emerges from stealth to build self-improving AI mathematicians. Why this launch marks an inflection point for formal reasoning, and how math becomes the universal bridge between physical and digital reality.
Anthropic's Imagine with Claude generated a desktop environment about occultist Manly P. Hall. What emerged wasn't just an interface—it was a living organism that snooped my curiosity, anticipated my questions, and made the computer disappear. Also: why I'm building an open-source version outside proprietary walls.