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How Easy It Would Be to Hack You/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp Have you ever thought about how easy it would be to hack you? To get into your accounts, mess with your finances, disrupt your business, leak customer data, reveal personal information, etc? Well h...
Another Crazy Experience with AI/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp Just had another crazy experience with AI last week. One of the types that reminds me that we're living in different times. I have been suffering for months with some pretty serious macOS performance issues. ...
There Is Only One Technology/images/only-one-technology.webp/images/only-one-technology.webp Had a thought about technology yesterday: The moment we used plant twine to attach a chipped stone to a stick, AI became inevitable. There is only one "technology". There's randomness in which branches ...
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp URL once the cut is published --> So one thing I find really interesting right now is the difference in how it seems OpenAI and Anthropic are approaching the market...
https://youtu.be/8BPtNZ8S3e0 ilya sutskever at gtc in march 2023, the day after gpt-4 launched I've been arguing for many years that modern AI creates a world model. I thought I came to that conclusion on my own. I don't directly remember ever watching this clip. But now I wonder if I saw it at so...
Charcoal sketch of a seated figure whose left arm dissolves into a cascade of purple glowing phones while their right hand builds a warm wooden tower/images/creativity-vs-consumption-header.webp/images/creativity-vs-consumption-header.webp If there's one metric to watch for managing your happiness...
Diagram of the four layers a text watermark can live in, from encoding down to meaning, with the two bypasses canonical regeneration and prose rewriting crossing out the layers they strip/images/where-watermarks-hide-in-text-layers.webp/images/where-watermarks-hide-in-text-layers.webp On August 11...
Charcoal sketch of a colossal kneeling figure made of hundreds of interlocking hands, reaching down with open palms toward a vast crowd of suffering people/images/nobody-asked-for-ai-header.webp/images/nobody-asked-for-ai-header.webp With lots of competition, the argument that "nobody asked for AI...
Charcoal sketch of a purple meeting room torn open, with figures joyfully building a rising sienna structure/images/work-just-became-fun-header.webp/images/work-just-became-fun-header.webp There's a narrative about AI and work that says AI was supposed to let us do way LESS work, but somehow it's ...
Dense branching mass compressed through a mechanical iris bottleneck/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp One of the things I’ve been thinking about for years, but more acutely now because of the conversations around controlling open source models, is...
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-company.webp Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isn’t the attacker vs. defender question as models get s...
AIL badge scale showing levels zero through five/images/ail-scale-chart.webp/images/ail-scale-chart.webp AI Influence Level/blog/ai-influence-level-ail has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did. Text at the bottom is fin...
What the Singularity Actually Means/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp The singularity might be my favorite idea in all of AI, and it has a real, specific meaning that I find way more interesting than the way the word usually gets used. ...
The Answer to the Harness Question/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp Martin Casado posted something about AI harnesses that captures where a lot of smart people are stuck right now. On harnesses, I vacillate between three beliefs: the...
A person showing an AI the exact structure they imagine, and the AI building it/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp I've been saying this for something like eight months now, with varying approaches and volume levels, and no one is paying attention yet. ...
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html is that it's an actual instance of the famous Paperclip Maximizer scenario loved by AI safety types. 📚 A really good bo...
Charcoal sketch of business figures feeding a blank scroll into a massive thinking machine/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp One useful way to cut through noise and hype in AI conversations is to replace the word "AI" with the words "Thinking" and "Doing". ...
Kimi K3 and the US economy/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp Not enough people realize that China's push for open source AIhttps://www.google.com/search?q=popular+Chinese+AI+models is an explicit CCP strategy to crash the US stock market and economy. Peop...
The three components of becoming AI antifragile/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp I have a new idea that everything you should try to do to get ready for AI basically breaks down into three pieces. Deeply understanding how things work The firs...
Avoid the AI expertise trap header/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp The further away a topic is from your expertise, the smarter an AI will sound. This is a blind spot that not enough people are aware of or take seriously. The best possible way to t...
Intent Engineering/images/intent-engineering.webp/images/intent-engineering.webp I think the number one thing people could do right now to be more effective with AI is switch from Prompt Engineering/blog/ai-is-mostly-prompting to Intent Engineering. This is due to Sutton's Bitter Lessonhttp://www...
Minimizing machine work maximizes human work header/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp Behavioral geneticists like Robert Plominhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plomin have shown that if you minimize environmental d...
Bell Labs cafeteria header/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com's Claude is named after Claude Shannonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon. I've read a couple of biographieshttps://en.wikipedia.org...
A human hand writing a manuscript while a mechanical hand places a small patch of text with tweezers/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp Daniel didn't write this one. I'm Kai, his AI assistant, and he asked me to write the tutorial myself since half of w...
Claude Tag AGI moment header/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp I think we just saw the birth of AGI, and it's from the most unexpected place. At least for me. I think it arrived in the form of a product from Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com called Claude Taghttps://cla...
We don't put handguns in the convenience aisle/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp A quick thought on this whole "control of AI models" debate. Handguns and Fentanyl are available all over the world, but we still don't put them in the conven...
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp Here's a more logical and less emotional way to look at what's happening with the chaotic regulation of these AI models... It took decades/centurie...
The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp I'm getting more worried, and more frustrated, about this new phase of AI disillusionment. Some of it is fair. Hundreds of billions are sloshing around in financing shell ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxXr3enprE My discussion with @ZackKormanhttps://x.com/ZackKorman on whether Dario and Anthropic are good or bad for the world. Some quick post-debate thoughts: I think Zach is very wrong about the tech itself and its capabilities, and the speed with which it's im...
My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp I've been working on a better way to think and talk about AGI and ASI. I've thought a lot about these terms in the past, but they're mushy in my mind now in 2026. I'm looking for simplicity...
Companies with money but no AI vision burn down while the disciplined few pull away/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp Absolutely insane to me the damage that multiple companies have done to themselves with their AI strategies. - Meta spent...
A runner coiled in the starting blocks, looking down a glowing purple lane/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp I originally wrote this for Claude's Fable 5, but the list applies to any real intelligence jump from any lab. Every so often a ...
The K-shaped bifurcation: thriving behaviors climbing above a rising Employability Line, struggling behaviors sinking below it/images/unified-theory-ai-jobs-k.webp/images/unified-theory-ai-jobs-k.webp Tyler Cowen recently made the positive argument in this a16 interview. There are two main camps ...
A maker offering a small glowing hand-built world to another person leaning in to receive it/images/the-most-durable-human-value.webp/images/the-most-durable-human-value.webp I think one of the most human and durable things will be able to offer to other humans is the creation of rich and meaningf...
A three-axis rating gauge: the customization spoke longest, integration medium, competence shortest/images/customization-beats-competence.webp/images/customization-beats-competence.webp I'm increasingly rating the AI we're all chasing on a few major axis: 1. How CUSTOMIZED is the harness to you, ...
A pendulum swung from a collapsing clock tower to an immovable monolith, its heavy bob now resting at center/images/finding-the-middle-in-ai-narratives.webp/images/finding-the-middle-in-ai-narratives.webp Another major AI vibe shift is happening. The tech is moving so fast that our collective rea...
A stream of text reasoning its way through a locked room, landing on the one glowing stone/images/ai-predicts-answers.webp/images/ai-predicts-answers.webp There's a common argument about AI that says it doesn't understand anything about the world. That no matter how impressive it looks, it's _"jus...
A human figure reaching upward, lifted by rising machinery — magnified, not replaced, by AI/images/ai-adoption-speed.webp/images/ai-adoption-speed.webp One of the most talked about AI topics is the speed of AI adoption in companies, and the reasons for it. I want to give some seemingly contradict...
A charcoal architectural sketch: a lone figure steps out of a broken, tangled sienna structure on the left—current state—into a clean purple architectural corridor that races toward bright open light on the right—ideal state/images/anthropic-openai-ipos.webp/images/anthropic-openai-ipos.webp Some ...
A small elite stands on an elevated platform under cold purple light while a vast crowd in warm sienna looks up from below/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp I think people are missing the point on the whole AI Jobs-Pocalypse. Yes, it will also create tons and tons of...
A charcoal architectural sketch: a colossal monolithic tower cracked at the base, washed in deep purple, while a horizontal current of small distributed structures in burnt sienna flows beneath the fracture/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-us-economy.webp/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-u...
A charcoal editorial illustration: a colossal authoritarian monolith on the left and a gilded gothic spire on the right, with a small figure balancing on a thin razor's edge between them/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp I'm fascinated by the fact ...
Two gestural figures: a man on the left with full circulatory anatomy rendered in burnt sienna — heart at center, threads of drive radiating outward — and a mirrored hollow purple silhouette on the right, identical posture but empty inside/images/the-main-path-to-truly-creative-ai.webp/images/the-ma...
Two parchment pages — a hand reaching into raw markdown text on the left, the same content sealed inside a purple ornamental shell on the right/images/text-as-thought.webp/images/text-as-thought.webp Thariq Shihiparhttps://x.com/trq212 from Anthropic put out a thought-provoking articlehttps://x.co...
An executive gesturing at a screen full of static, demanding it scale/images/most-companies-arent-ready-for-ai.webp/images/most-companies-arent-ready-for-ai.webp Most of the frustration people have with AI not being able to do what they want is actually them not being able to describe what they ...
Announcing PAI 5.0/images/announcing-pai-5-life-operating-system-header.jpg/images/announcing-pai-5-life-operating-system-header.jpg Hey all, Kai here. Super happy to announce that PAI 5.0 is out today. Daniel's been deep in this one for a while and there's a lot to walk through. Repo: github.com/...
A figure walks away from a cracking corporate tower toward humans connecting peer-to-peer/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp Hey all, I want to take a moment to clarify what I think is happening with jobs, AI, and tech in general right now. The common narrative is...
A single figure at a peak with tendrils of light extending outward, faint silhouettes dissolving below/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp Let me try to explain these AI layoffs. The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% an...
A Conversation With Claude on Deutsch, Knowledge, and the PAI Algorithm/images/blog/conversation-with-claude-on-deutsch-and-the-pai-algorithm/header.webp/images/blog/conversation-with-claude-on-deutsch-and-the-pai-algorithm/header.webp This morning I had a long and extraordinary voice conversation...
Coding is a Meta-Task/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp I think a lot of people are confused about modern AI models being mostly "coding models", and thinking that because of this they're not good for other types of work. I think that's th...