A lot of people are boasting about how they automate their writing to an AI. My take is simple – if AI can write it, maybe it does not need to be written. Writing is thinking. Outsourcing your thinking is… Read More »Writing is Thinking
Dictating to people how to do stuff is counterproductive in many cases.
Something crucial is missing. “The language model “knows” that balls fall when dropped — this is a robust statistical regularity across millions of texts. But it has never seen a ball. It has never felt gravity. It has never experienced… Read More »Meaning at the Boundary
You can have soldiers or you can have mercenaries. Soldiers fight for their friends, family, country, an idea. Mercenaries fight for money. Soldiers usually have much higher morale as they have nonmonetary reason to fight. The same applies for a… Read More »Soldiers vs. Mercenaries
It’s just math.
Is this different than the previous maker phases? “This matters because the scenius phase is where the internal transformation actually happens. When you spend two years making useless Arduino projects, you develop instincts about electronics, materials, and design that you… Read More »Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement
I often see that people not capable of dealing with their issue like to pass the solving of the issue to someone else. It can be as trivial as setting up a notification rules for an app. It is easier… Read More »Having Others Solve Your Incompetence
Using capitalism as Marxist argument. Fun and interesting read. “This is why its solutions never solve. A solved problem is a eliminated budget line. A managed problem is a permanent revenue stream.” https://tantaman.com/2026-01-27-what-would-marx-say-today
Current AI paradigm might become for IT what String theory is for Physics. “What happened next was not a reasoned evaluation of competing paradigms. It was a gold rush. Google hired Geoffrey Hinton. Facebook hired Yann LeCun. Baidu hired Andrew… Read More »Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works
The terminology of AI is wrong. “At minimum, an agent has beliefs — not hunches, not vibes, but quantifiable representations of what it thinks is true and how certain it is. An agent has goals — not a prompt that… Read More »Agentic AI Is Neither Intelligent Nor an Agent