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  1. Redundancy Is the Only Honest AI Research Strategy

    I ran the same question through 6 AI tools and scored them against peer-reviewed evidence. Every tool got something wrong that another got right.

  2. The Calculator Analogy

    Nobody practises arithmetic speed anymore. The same thing is happening to prose, research, and analysis — and it changes what humans should get good at.

  3. The Thirty-Year Gap Between Faking and Understanding Natural Language

    From AppleScript's rigid English-like syntax to LLM tool-calling — what changes when the computer actually understands you.

  4. Not Every Cron Job Is a Feedback Loop

    Automation that collects without learning is just a cron job. The difference is a feedback signal — a number that goes up or down.

  5. The Loop Is the Product

    Karpathy's autoresearch and every useful AI tool share the same pattern: the code is trivial, the feedback loop is the product.

  6. The Bootstrap Problem in AI Tooling

    You need the tool to build the tool. The answer is: build the dumb version first, use it once, then have it build its replacement.

  7. Why Nobody Builds Cross-Vendor AI Orchestration

    Every AI lab builds single-vendor orchestration. The cross-vendor layer is a gap — and it's a gap for a reason.

  8. The Orchestration Layer Is Knowledge, Not Code

    Multi-agent AI orchestration frameworks are commodity. The competitive advantage is knowing which agent to use when, what breaks, and how to recover.

  9. Is Insight an Illusion

    When pattern-matching feels like wisdom, what are we actually experiencing?

  10. The Fluency Trap

    When AI conversations feel insightful because the language model is good at producing insight-shaped text

  11. Why Nobody Benchmarks Memory

    The things that matter most in production are the things that get benchmarked least

  12. The Byproduct Trap

    When the paper becomes more interesting than the answer you set out to find

  13. AI Agents Need Notebooks, Not Just Memories

    The missing layer in enterprise AI isn't smarter models — it's structured memory that humans can actually review.

  14. Cross-Cutting Is Just Another Word for Optional

    In AI agent architecture, calling something a 'cross-cutting concern' without naming an owner and a gate is just a polite way of saying nobody owns it.

  15. The second pass finds more

    When red-teaming a document with multiple AI models, the second review — run on the edited version — consistently finds more than the first. Here's why, and what it means for how many rounds to run.

  16. RAG Solved the Wrong Problem

    The retrieval pipeline was built for systems that couldn't reason about their own information needs. Agents can.

  17. This Year's DeepSeek

    An open-source AI agent framework became the fastest-growing project in GitHub history — mostly in China. The pattern is the same as last year. So is the security panic.

  18. The Accidental Life OS

    I spent an afternoon researching AI tools for personal life management. The conclusion was that I should stop looking.

  19. The $1 Billion Bet Against LLMs

    One of the architects of modern deep learning just raised $1B on the thesis that token prediction can't reach real reasoning. Here's what he's proposing instead — and why it matters even if he's wrong.

  20. The First Datapoint

    An AI agent ran unsupervised for two days and found twenty improvements to another model's training. Not an AGI claim. A rate claim.

  21. From Chatbots to Event Loops

    The shift from agents you summon to agents that watch. Enterprise AI workflows are becoming continuous loops — and the failure modes are different.

  22. What MCP Actually Changes for Enterprise AI

    Not better function calling — decoupling. When tools expose MCP servers, any agent can compose any system freely. The heterogeneity problem becomes a configuration problem.

  23. Language Is the Medium, Not the Purpose

    We called them language models and spent years confused about why they could reason. The name stuck to the interface, not the mechanism.

  24. LLMs Are Better at Editing Than Writing

    Ask an AI to write from scratch and you get the average of the corpus. Give it something rough and it amplifies what's already there. The workflow implications are significant.

  25. What It Actually Feels Like to Use AI for 80% of Your Work

    Not productivity. Something stranger — the cognitive texture of days when the bottleneck shifts from execution to articulation.

  26. The Calibration Trap

    The comfort trap is about effort. This one is about epistemics — and it's harder to see.

  27. The Comfort Trap

    The right test for any AI interaction isn't 'did it help me?' but 'am I more capable after it?'

  28. The Personalised System Era

    AI coding agents didn't just make developers faster. They changed who gets to have a bespoke system.

  29. Let the OS Schedule, Let Your Tool Dispatch

    The moment I stopped building scheduling into my tools, everything got simpler.

  30. Benchmark Your Research Stack

    Running 10 real queries through 5 tools revealed that theoretical routing rules have systematic gaps — and the surprises were more useful than the confirmations.