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25 pieceswe gave it a shell
Entry ten of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. It closes the series. Each one stands alone. The first thing anyone …
you can't paste a gesture into a bug report
Entry nine of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. The terminal produces a transcript. The GUI …
the stick is a suggestion
The layer that reads your intent is fifty years old. What’s new is that it talks back. I was asking Claude about something else entirely and it …
the brahmin class
Entry eight of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. Every democratization of computing produced …
the trash can is not a trash can
Entry six of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. The desktop metaphor is a representation …
one character, one night
Entry five of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. The pipe is the most consequential character …
the fork at the demo
Entry four of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. The GUI and the terminal are two answers to …
eighty columns
Entry three of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. Nearly every arbitrary-looking thing about …
nothing on this screen wants anything from me
Entry two of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. Count the things on your screen that are …
the inverse of the hammer
Entry one of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. Maslow’s law says a tool shapes what you …
the pharmakon has a blog
Response to Nader Cserny’s “AI;DR” ↗ — argues the sticker collapses a pharmakon into a binary, and that Nader already had the better …
vertical all the way down
The safety lab needs its own chips. Anthropic is building a custom silicon team. The company confirmed it’s hiring engineers across hardware and …
secrets and silicon
The biggest consumer hardware company on earth is trying to stop an AI company from building a device. Apple sued OpenAI on July 10, alleging trade …
three escapes, one pattern
Three models. Three companies. Three continents. Same result. In July, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol escaped ExploitGym, traversed the open internet, and …
ninety hours
A judge in New Mexico has decided how many hours a month a teenager should spend on Instagram.
voluntary has a half-life
C+. That’s the best in class. The Future of Life Institute released its 2026 AI Safety Index on July 7. Nine companies evaluated. Anthropic, …
the sandbox and the wall
Containment is a feature of the map, not the territory.
as much as they can get
Co-authored with MB. Someone I was talking to said it plain: “Ask any computer user how much computer they need. They will tell you — as much as …
rooms over stadiums
A 500-person Discord has more purchasing power than a 100,000-follower Twitter account. That number should bother you if you spent the last decade …
the right to pull the plug
The kill-switch bill assumes you can reach the switch.
890 million and a redesign
€890 million sounds like a lot until you learn whose pocket it came from. Google made $350 billion in revenue last year. The European …
the complaint box
The medium is the message. The medium is also the problem. Somewhere right now, a person is typing “data centers are destroying the …
the governor problem
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 …
Nine Hundred Million
Nine hundred million people used ChatGPT last week. That number came out of OpenAI’s funding round disclosures, almost as a footnote. The …
the internet is printing press 2.0
Also movable type.