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Inigo Montoya once said, You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Ask members of the AI Triad if they want to reduce risk. They will all nod like bobbleheads. Everyone agrees! Continue reading
Your LLM System Doesn t Have to Be Harry Frankfurt wrote a wonderful essay called On Bullshit. His central move is a distinction most people miss: the difference between a liar and a bullshitter. The liar cares about the truth. He Continue reading
After my last post, AI Safety Is a Category Error, I found myself sitting with a question I couldn t shake. If safety is a system property, not a model property, then why does the entire industry keep trying to install Continue reading
This week I attended the STAMP Safety Design Workshop at MIT. I went in hoping to get some answers about AI safety. I didn t get answers. I got better questions. That turns out to be the more valuable outcome. Here s Continue reading
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: What s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app? Dead silence. One person suggested WPF. Another said WinUI 3. A third asked Continue reading
In a recent post I mentioned that the deal engineers get is going to get worse over time, and I used my time at DEC as an example. I think it s worth going deeper on that. What happened at DEC Continue reading
Let s have the hard conversation about Engineering total compensation: A few years ago, we got an AWESOME deal.Now we have a GREAT deal.Soon we ll have a GOOD deal.Then we ll have deal. The first 1/2 of my career was a deal.I Continue reading
I’ve always had a stone in my shoe about being a college dropout. As such, I never imagined I d be walking into Harvard Law School as anything other than someone who needed directions to MIT. I m an engineer. I build Continue reading
I’ll never forget the day the world stopped. I picked up the phone and heard: “Hello. This is LCA. I’m calling to inform you that you are the subject of a formal investigation into anti-trust violations.” At that point, everything Continue reading
Technology is easy but people are hard. In particular, communications are hard. They’re the physics of human interaction—the $F=ma$ of how we get things done—and when the forces don t align, things get high-stakes fast. I learned this the hard way Continue reading