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The thieves are upset about theft
AI labs trained on everyone's data without asking. Now they're furious that other AI labs are training on their outputs. The pattern is older than electricity.
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A single data center drinks five million gallons of water a day
America's energy and water infrastructure cannot sustain AI buildout without radical change.
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Productivity is up, but is your time worth more?
Coding productivity metrics are rising, but the real question is whether human judgment is becoming more valuable.
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The GPU accumulation era is ending
Raw compute scaling is hitting limits; the next breakthroughs require hardware-software co-design and specialization.
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How do you understand code you didn't write?
Code generation speed isn't the bottleneck—understanding and verifying AI-generated code is, and current tools optimize the wrong 5% of development.
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I could've been an awesome Dungeon Master
Reflecting on D&D world-building skills and what generative world models mean for the future of storytelling and creative expression.
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A fundamental shift on AI opportunities
The real opportunity in AI is disrupting incumbents and creating new products, not building more AI platforms.
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You didn't need to predict the App Store
Mobile blindsided many companies that moved slowly; AI will repeat this cycle—start small, measure, and upgrade every quarter.
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AI autonomy level framework
Framework for understanding AI autonomy levels outside self-driving, from copy-paste to full autonomous systems.
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What the heck is Cy up to?
Learning at speed to build AI-enabled products that return people to the real world, moving beyond screens.
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You down with A.P.P.?
A rap parody celebrating AI Paired Programming—the synergy between humans and AI in software development.
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AI won't magically replace companies
Economic pressure and frozen job markets will drive a new generation to build, sparking another wave of founder-led disruption.
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Hot take on the future of coding
Most individual contributor developers will need to re-skill within five years as AI agents take over execution work.
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No team votes itself out of existence
Conway's Law shows why organizations keep building what they did yesterday—and why Tesla's system reimagining beat a hundred years of optimization.
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Hot take on Sora
Sora's outputs remain largely unusable at current pricing; the model needs dramatic improvements in consistency to justify its value.
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1-bit models and the future of on-device AI
Binary neural networks achieve comparable performance to 16-bit models while using 3x less memory, 4x less GPU resources, and 100x less energy.
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AI is a new entity
Understanding that AI agents represent a fundamental shift beyond smarter tools—a genuinely new form of intelligence with exponential capability.
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Google's sloppy Gemma launch
Google's open-source Gemma launch failed to account for community infrastructure, creating a poor first impression with key stakeholders.
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On a personal note
Reflecting on a transformative period of recovery, exploration, and the decision to build something new in the age of AI agents.
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I was alone on AI ethics for a long time
In 2010, I left a great role to build a product focused on fair algorithms. Years before the movement existed.
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Bias in AI: A problem recognized but still unresolved
Algorithmic bias is a known problem. Two years after Tyrant in the Code, the debate rages on but the demographics haven't changed.
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Tyrant in the code
AI isn't biased because it's evil. It's biased because its creators are a sea of dudes building scissors for right-handed people.