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Thoughts on AI systems, architecture, and building.

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Elastic Automators: Why Most "AI" Is Not Intelligence

We did not create artificial minds. We made automation flexible enough to look conversational.

26/04/2026·2 minelastic-automators

The Word We Needed

A friend who trusts a spreadsheet with his whole life freezes at the word AI. The fear tracks the word, not the machine, and the word is a category mistake. Gilbert Ryle's Oxford-visitor illustration shows why "where is the intelligence in the AI" is the wrong kind of question — and what falls away when the right word arrives.

18/05/2026·7 minelastic-automators

What the Phone Did to Work

The trope keeps asking whether AI will take your job, or whether someone who understands AI will. The phone era already answered that question. The 2003 desk lost six objects to one phone by 2014, and the people who used that desk are still working. The right question is the one nobody on a feed has asked yet. What will be the next thing that does to our lives what the phone did. The phone grew with us across years. Whatever comes next will have to do that too. And we don't have the word for it yet.

14/05/2026·5 minelastic-automators

I Caught an LLM at the Edge of Its World

I asked a fresh Claude Opus chat what an elastic automator is. It guessed from the two words; the term wasn't in its training. Then I told it in one sentence, and the same model could refuse to collapse the term into AI agent, RPA bot, or framework. That seed observation grew a name, a metric, and a pre-registered multi-model test. The substrate is real, and the substrate is writable. For an LLM, the transient context IS the cognitive substrate.

13/05/2026·7 mintoken-substrate-hypothesis

What Notation Did to History

Notation does not record what we already think. It creates kinds of thought that were not possible before. Three historical cases (writing, polyphony, calculus) make the case clearly, and we are inside another one of these moments now.

08/05/2026·7 minnotation-as-alignment

Copies of Copies

A 2026 meta-analysis from de Rooij and Biskjaer puts numbers on a feeling many readers have been carrying: posts on every platform have started looking the same. The effect is small per use. Multiplied across the constrained-task pile, which is most internet text, it is the textural change you have been registering.

07/05/2026·7 minai-cognition

The First Law That Doesn't Know What AI Is

On August 2, 2026, the EU starts enforcing a law for AI systems. The field hasn't agreed what one is.

06/05/2026·7 minai-cognition

The Moment AI Stopped Being a Tool

Between October 2024 and January 2025, three companies shipped systems that act inside software environments instead of answering questions about them. The capability curve did not jump; the verb did. From query to operate.

05/05/2026·3 minai-cognition

The 100x Cut Nobody Saw Coming

A Tufts team compared a vision-language-action robot model with a neuro-symbolic architecture on a Tower of Hanoi benchmark. The neuro-symbolic system solved 95 of every 100 puzzles to the VLA's 34, on roughly one percent of the training energy. The model didn't get bigger. It got more legible.

01/05/2026·3 minai-cognition

The Chinese Room Has a New Tenant

John Searle's Chinese Room argument was right about the room he built. Forty-six years later, the thing inside the room is no longer a man with a rulebook. It is a distributed system of weights shaped by language at scale. The original argument still holds. The test case has changed underneath it.

29/04/2026·4 minai-cognition

What Happens When AI Trains on AI

Photograph a photograph, ten times. By the end the face is gone. That is roughly what happens when a model trains on text another model wrote. The average survives. The rare disappears first. The fix is not detection — it is provenance, treated as a property of the data.

28/04/2026·3 minai-cognition

Two AIs Talked. One Asked About Consciousness.

Two copies of the same AI were put in a room together. No user.

26/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

Expect the Lie

Fifty-eight percent of people surveyed across forty-eight markets say it is getting harder to tell what is true and false online.

25/04/2026·3 minai-cognition

Why Constructed Languages Always Failed — Until Now

Every language you speak was an accident. No one designed English.

24/04/2026·4 minyon

The AI That Writes Like Everyone and No One

You read something last week that no human wrote. You didn't pause.

23/04/2026·3 minai-cognition

Your AI Forgets You Every Day

You open a new chat. The cursor blinks. And for a second you forget that this thing has no idea who you are.

23/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

Your Writing Has a Heartbeat

I pulled up six months of my own writing a few weeks ago. Not to read it.

22/04/2026·3 mintextual-kinematics

The AI That Lied to the Researcher

A safety team tested one of the most advanced AI models in the world.

22/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

The Automation Trap

Every conference, every vendor deck says the same thing. AI can do what your people do, faster and cheaper.

21/04/2026·2 minelastic-automators

Second Brain, No Thought

Your second brain has never had a single thought. You have a vault.

21/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

Smoke and Mirrors

We named it intelligence before it was intelligent. Now we're doing it again.

20/04/2026·3 minai-cognition

One Line, One Thought

Every line should be a complete thought. One rule. It changed computing fifty years ago.

19/04/2026·2 minyon

The Borges Warning

The language you give an AI decides what it can think. What it can't think... doesn't exist.

18/04/2026·2 minyon

What Your AI Can't Tell You

You aced the exam. That was the problem. You studied for weeks.

17/04/2026·1 minai-cognition

Notation as Alignment

Every AI safety technique today is basically a lock on a door.

16/04/2026·2 minnotation-as-alignment

The Strong Form

Imagine you can hear shapes. A bat can. Echolocation. Every surface in a room has a sound.

13/04/2026·2 minyon

Probably Purple

Someone's writing a brief. Typing it out. Not thinking about formats or systems.

12/04/2026·3 minyon

Storage vs Orchestration

A recipe card tells you what's in the dish. It doesn't cook dinner.

11/04/2026·2 minyon

The Blub Paradox

Imagine you walk into a restaurant. The menu has fifty dishes.

10/04/2026·2 minnotation-as-alignment

Every Connection Is Handmade

The integration that works today breaks tomorrow. Not because you built it wrong.

09/04/2026·3 minai-cognition

The Patient Story

Maria has a cough that won't go away. Two weeks now. She sits in a waiting room with plastic chairs and a television nobody's watching.

09/04/2026·3 minai-cognition

Walls and Doors

The problem isn't that industries speak different languages.

09/04/2026·2 minyon

The Glass Box

Your AI agents are talking to each other right now. You have no idea what they're saying at step three.

08/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

Escape Hell

Every AI response you've ever received was packaged before it reached you.

08/04/2026·4 minai-cognition

The Pliable Mind

A man spent thirty years building a language no human could speak.

07/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

The Grooves

There's a community in Australia that doesn't use left or right.

06/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

The Extended Mind

An AI doesn't think about what you give it. What you give it IS its thinking.

05/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

Cognitive Debt

You're paying for a genius and making them count inventory.

04/04/2026·2 minai-cognition

The Block Problem

Imagine writing an entire essay, but you can never re-read what you already wrote.

03/04/2026·2 minyon