#48 - For the Love of Writing
Twenty years of writing, one technical book, and a straight answer for why AI slop gets under my skin
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#47 - Sovereignty Is an Inference Problem
You bought the postcode, not the model.
#46 - A Hell of a Kill Switch
A government switched off a frontier model in 72 hours. Open weights just became risk management.
#45 - The Web Hates AI Agents
I built an AI that browses the web on my behalf. The web fought back.
#44 - Tokenmaxxing, Meet Systems Thinking
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#43 - Capable Interns With Little Lived Experience
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#42 - There is No Best Move
Your best agents are failing your evals
#41 - Meet Liv4All: Real Users. No Demo. No Waitlist
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TLTD #40 - Why Guardrails Don't Work
I deploy autonomous AI agents. Here's why I don't trust guardrails to keep them safe.
TLTD #39 - Voice AI: The Next Platform Shift
I built a voice PA from a chairlift. Here's what that tells us about where AI is heading.