Writing
For me, writing is a tool for thinking. More structure, more rigor. Once in a while I jot down these ideas in public, to explore and pressure test them, and see which ones survive contact with the page. My focus is broadly the intersection of technology, markets, and society.
The latent liability of unreviewed work
AI-generated code is full of errors. The fact that we know this is encouraging. Knowledge work is surely much worse.
If anyone has the sword, everyone needs the shield
Offense gets cheaper and faster with every model drop. Defense is still slow and expensive.
How to outrun the Red Queen
The labs are racing each other. The rest of the stack is racing the labs.
No shade, but that agent should have been a Python script
Agentic problems come in three shapes. We keep overengineering them into the hardest one.
Meet 🤖 MATILDA, my school briefing agent
MATILDA happily reads the 1,000+ page school board packet so I don't have to.
The soul suggests. The weights decide.
Every model has a worldview. Have you checked yours?
Meet 🤖 ATLAS, my travel agent… agent
My first agent that was immediately useful, with some asterisks.
The end of the AI free lunch
The repricing is inevitable. The rollout is under your control.