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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” — Pablo Picasso During a presentation I gave at work about AI-assisted coding, someone asked: “What about the skills we’ve already learned? Are they useless now? What should we do?”. I answered with a story about Picasso. The Craft # In 1896, a fourteen-year-old Pablo Picasso painted…
This article is a companion to Perceptual Parochialism: The Scale We Can’t See . That piece explores why humans, by default, struggle to reason about phenomena at scales beyond direct experience. This article applies the same idea to a specific domain where it causes enormous, measurable damage: software systems with uncontrolled side effects. The Pebble and the Mountain Range # A mutable…
I used to get into debates about evolution in online forums. Not with cranks, but with genuinely intelligent people. They understood DNA sequencing. They could walk through the logic of natural selection step by step. But at the end of long threads, the conclusion was always some version of: “I just don’t buy that all of this came from blind chance over time.” I kept trying…
I’ve been dabbling in bus-based architecture for the frontend for over 10 years, and have successfully applied it in one form or another to production apps with millions of users. This is the ideal architecture as far as I can envision (with the help of Claude Opus 4.6). I intend to build complete libraries for multiple platforms based on this Nidana Bus Reference Architecture . The Problem…
We all know Descartes’ “Cogito, ergo sum” : “I think, therefore I am.” It is probably the most famous sentence in the history of Western philosophy. And I’ve always felt something is off about it. For a long time I assumed the problem was mine. Maybe I wasn’t reading it correctly, or wasn’t understanding it as Descartes intended. The “I…
A philosophical framework developed through dialogue with Opus 4.6, March 2026. Abstract # This document presents Schesism (from Greek σχέσις, schesis , “relation”): a philosophical framework in which consciousness is understood not as an object, substance, or property of objects, but as a morphism , a transformation between entities in a relational structure. Consciousness is not in…
Hi, I’m a software developer. I like to philosophize and try to understand patterns across domains that I find interesting: art, functional programming, category theory, quantum physics, emergence, evolution, Buddhism, and mysticism. With the recent rapid improvements in LLMs, I enjoy exploring the edges of my understanding. With the help of AI, I can now express thoughts that were…
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