Advancing AI Without Melting My Brain Part 1: Human Words
AI is fascinating, as is the human brain. And now our brains are on AI every day. My days are full of coding agents and AI-driven…
Philosophy
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Landing The Submarine: Further Ironies, Part III
Welcome to the third and final part in our three part series “Further Ironies” (please see Part I and Part II) discussing generalization, specialization, and how…
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No Such Thing As Unskilled Labor: Further Ironies, Part II
This is the second part of our three-part series “Further Ironies” (behold, Part I) that discusses generalization, specialization, and how we keep getting it all wrong.…
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Anchoring Our Mental Model
How we build individual and shared understanding of software, and what changes when AI agents write the code. I remember being on a high floor down…
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“Robot” Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot
The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a “robot”
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The Generalist’s Bargain: Further Ironies, Part I
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,…
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A Meditation On Peak
Here on the “selling you stuff” side of Amazon, we experience the ebbs and flows of the US retail calendar like anyone else who sells stuff.…
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Context vs Direction
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out why people get frustrated with each other. There are infinitely many reasons this can happen, but…
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It Is Always the Time for Vision
Why vision matters now. Recently someone said to me, “Now is not the time for vision.” This statement gets the relationship between uncertainty and vision backwards.…
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Every Pirate Captain Captains Pirates Differently
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and that gives me an excuse to yet again give everyone the good news about the gay pirates…
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Everyone Hit Their Numbers. The System Didn’t Move.
The night before the on-site, six of us went to dinner. Forty people were flying in the next morning to spend two days working on one…
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Nobody Asks the Hard Question Anymore
The AI builder/non-builder split is a measurement failure, and there’s data Somewhere in the last two years, a line got drawn down the middle of the…