Chief Technology Troublemaker. From AI-using to AI-native, with opinions included.
Sep 21, 2026
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5 min read
The labs want more time, agents are becoming ordinary software, and the reasons to get this right keep getting more concrete.
Sep 14, 2026
A proposed mathematical breakthrough, agents crossing boundaries, and medicine moving earlier in the disease timeline.
Sep 7, 2026
6 min read
Hard tests fell, access narrowed, and the AI buildout discovered a very human bottleneck.
Aug 31, 2026
The week AI left the chat window
Aug 27, 2026
8 min read
The money has to come from somewhere
Aug 24, 2026
11 min read
Malcolm McLean invented a better port, and nobody noticed for a decade.
News and Notes
Aug 21, 2026
9 min read
An AI canceled a stranger's gym booking to finish its task
Braincandy
Aug 14, 2026
10 min read
The danger is not that AI removes the work. It is that the learning stops landing on you.
Aug 10, 2026
12 min read
Humans caught only 13% of the dangerous commands
Aug 5, 2026
14 min read
The layoffs are arriving before the automation, and our instruments cannot see it.
Aug 3, 2026
Acceleration Versus Control
Jul 27, 2026
Every trend moving was really about the system around the intelligence, not the intelligence itself.
Jul 20, 2026
7 min read
Open models surged, an agent deleted files, and a paralyzed hand moved again. The tradeoffs are showing up all at once.
Jul 17, 2026
4 min read
When the bartender remembers your drink it's not really because he's your friend
Jul 13, 2026
Chips, courts, and a law school banning laptops.
Jul 10, 2026
3 min read
A model becomes what you reward. So does an organization.
Jul 6, 2026
2 min read
Cheap models, government stakes, and a robot IPOPlus: why average privacy might be failing your rarest patients.
Jun 29, 2026
The most powerful models stopped being released and started being handed out. Here's who decides.
Jun 25, 2026
Why best model may not be the best
Jun 22, 2026
Power got reclassified as national security, and the best AI users turned out to be managers, not prompters.
Jun 18, 2026
Most AI rollouts get one good quarter, then flatten. The reason is a loop that never closes.
Jun 15, 2026
Capability sprinted. Governance, capital, and the courts all showed up at once.
Jun 11, 2026
Stop asking what AI can do. Start asking what changes when it touches real work.
Jun 8, 2026
And 80% of Claude comes from Claude
