Identity Is Explanatory Fiction
The Narrowing of the Option Space
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AI Can’t Code But You Can Code With AI
The claim that “AI can’t code” is, at its surface, empirically defensible. A growing population of users-many of whom possess little or no formal training in computer science-routinely produce code with AI assistance that appears to work, yet fails under scrutiny. The failures are not marginal; they are structural. Types are wrong, invariants are violated, edge cases are unhandled, and the…
We Raised The Ceiling And Lowered The Floor - The Room Is Bigger
The Structural Shift in Software Construction
Focus Is a Rigged Game
I always struggled with focus; as far as I can remember, it has always been one of the things that bothered me the most about myself. Being unable to focus sucks. It makes it hard to do what you feel you should do, leaving that sense of frustration toward yourself for not being able to resist such basic instincts as picking up your phone every 5 minutes just to open Instagram, check for new…
Note Taking Is Dumb
Note-taking systems, Obsidian-style ones especially, are the most useless thing in the world. Not even useless. Actively distracting from real work and real learning. A session of chatting with Claude, learning something while coding and iterating, plus Apple Notes, gets me 100x more than any Obsidian-style note-taking session.
Agi Will Always Be One Day Away
Disclaimer: this is a long read. It’s a full walkthrough of what’s actually happening in the AI industry right now, the contracts, the money, the accounting, the people running it, based on public sources. If you want the short version: AGI is a contract clause, not a milestone, and you’re paying for it.