The Same Window For Everything
I've been thinking about how I use AI tools lately. They're clearly useful. What interests me is how the experience feels.
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
Ilya Sutskever, the Scaling Hypothesis, and the Art of Talking Your Book
If you've just raised $3 billion to build a new god, it helps to question the faith in the old one.
Read essayIs Your AI Playing Roulette, Poker, or War?
On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones dropped nearly 1,000 points in minutes. A trillion dollars vanished. And then the market bounced back. The whole thing took
Read essayPrompting Is All You Need
Agents are supposed to be the future of how we build AI software. I am not so sure.
Read essayWhy is LLM writing so weird?
AI writing is strange. The models continue to improve, yet they still struggle to cross the uncanny valley that separates AI-generated content from
Read essay5 Mental Models to understand the current AI Moment.
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."AI usage is a terrible metric. Using AI for what? We end up with initiatives
Read essayBuilding a Truth-Seeking AI is a Sisyphean Endeavor
Elon Musk's goal for xAI's Grok model is to be "maximally truth-seeking." When Grok generated responses that were not aligned with Musk's ideas of Truth, he
Read essayReview: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
by Elizier Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (2025)
Read essayWe’re DDoS-ing ourselves with AI Slop.
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack overwhelms a scarce resource with a flood of traffic, making it unavailable to its intended users.
Read essayHow do LLMs understand Gujarati?
One of my favorite ways of testing LLM-powered apps at Jeavio is to ask them questions in transliterated Hindi or Gujarati. I ask questions in Latin script
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