Recent

The medium is the message. The medium is also the problem. Somewhere right now, a person is typing “data centers are destroying the planet” into a device that routes through three of them. …

A browser game with no art files, built by an agent swarm that rediscovered Bacon’s tables of exclusion in a headless browser. I gave an AI agent one instruction: build a platformer that can …

Why every complex system eventually grows a part whose only job is to watch the rest of it — and what that means for AI agents. I have a tool that runs teams of AI agents. Each team has a lead. The …

Continuity is participation, not preservation. The starter on my counter is three years old. That’s what I tell people. It’s also not true. None of the original flour is in there. None of …

When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.

What this post does: The adoption curve already happened. The ‘is AI real?’ question is settled by the number itself — not by argument. Nine hundred million people used ChatGPT last week. …

When the binding constraint on intelligence moves from silicon to thermal physics and power grids, you are no longer building a computer — you are building a power plant that thinks.

OpenAI just closed a $122 billion round. Amazon put in $50 billion. Nvidia, $30 billion. SoftBank, $30 billion. The implied valuation: $852 billion. Monthly revenue: $2.6 billion. Weekly active users: …

In 1989 Richard Gabriel wrote an essay trying to explain why the elegant thing keeps losing to the crappy thing. He called the crappy thing “worse is better.” He was a Lisp guy watching C …

You answered forty emails today. Scheduled three meetings, forwarded two threads, CC’d a person who needed to be aware. You closed the laptop tired, and the day had a shape. So you worked. The …