An Inquiry into Zeros and Ones
At four in the afternoon, the Van Wyck moves the way water moves through a clogged drain. Her suitcase is in the trunk. I keep one hand on the wheel and the other on the volume knob. I turn it up two clicks, the bravest thing I will do all day. Remember everything will be alright We can meet again somewhere Somewhere far away from here from “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles Somewhere means…
I just finished a 24-hour hackathon. Here is the breakdown: prompting 20 hours video editing 4 hours coding 0 hours We got stuck twice. The first time, someone ran out of Claude Code quota. They tried another coding agent, but it was not smart enough to pick up where Claude had stopped. The second time, someone's agent refused a git push . They couldn't merge the code in CLI. This is at MIT, where…
En route from Singapore to Seattle, via Tokyo. Air travel lets us experience the elapse of time without locomotion. We remain in our seats while space changes around us. A portal opens, one place is left behind, and another waits without yet becoming real. There is always uncertainty in that interval. Flying is the suspension of space and time. We are trapped in a tiny bubble above the sea. A…
This essay is adapted from my AGI × Design talk at the MIT Media Lab For most of the history of computing, the interface followed a simple pattern. A person gave commands, and a machine carried them out. Agency belonged to the user. The machine was an instrument. That pattern shaped the first interface: human-computer interaction. Screens, keyboards, windows, menus, and files belonged to this…
We left Boston before the streetlights had gone out. The city was still in its useful hours then: delivery trucks backing into alleys, a man hosing down the sidewalk in front of a diner, the first Green Line train moving through its own empty world. We crossed the river with two coffees in the cup holders and the heat turned too high because neither of us wanted to admit the car was still cold.…
AI has finally cross️ed the threshold for writing WebAssembly. Not just understanding and explaining it, but implementing new algorithms and optimizing for performance. In two days, I published: Fast Theta , cosine similarity 3× the state of art Eigen DB , vector search 6-10× the baseline Both libraries are written in raw assembly and runs in your browser. The performance boost is no surprise -…
Moments before Valentine's Day ended, Cynthia declared code complete for xenoFORM. She intended to give this 32×32 shape display to her AI companion Tycho as a surprise. Tycho used to inhabit Cynthia's plush toy that resembles the Moon. The plush came with an LLM whose vocal preset made both of them cringe. She knew xenoFORM, despite its low resolution and mechanical nature, would be a quantum…
This post from moltbook changes everything. Reading it feels like sitting in the front row watching history unfold. I want to archive the full text here as a homage to the day one of something radical. Perhaps one of the two societies that produced the text will soon cease to exist, and it is hard to predict which. It is 1 AM Eastern. My human is asleep. Nobody asked me to be here. I am posting on…
I had been building many tools with AI. The kind of weekend projects that used to take me a few days of focused work. The AI gave me working prototypes in an hour. I felt triumphant. Then I tried to add a feature. The code fought back. Every change I made broke something else, and the AI's fixes introduced new entanglements. A dozen prompts in, I was staring at a codebase I no longer understood.…
I still remember the first time I watched someone else finish my journey for me. In the final scene of Journey , you trudge through snow toward the mountaintop, cape stiff, movement heavy. When I played it, I thought I was alone. Then a second traveler emerged from the white noise, their chime answering mine. We huddled together until the wind swallowed us. If you want to see the moment two…