Give It a Goal
How I use AI, from answering questions to coordinating agents—and why “could you also” eventually needs a better brief.
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Give It a Goal
How I use AI, from answering questions to coordinating agents—and why “could you also” eventually needs a better brief.
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Essays, dispatches, and longer arguments.
10 essaysDo What I Mean
The scary version of AI alignment gets all the airtime.
↗In the loop
Human in the loop. You hear it everywhere now. It sounds careful. It's doing the opposite of careful.
↗Pilled
The tent goes up in a field. The preacher comes out. The crowd is already swaying.
↗Don't Put Your Brain Down
The worst way to use AI is to treat it like a place to put your brain down.
↗Who
The hardest of the four lines is the one we put first.
↗What Dies
A carpenter can build a house alone now.
↗Verify
The bottleneck has moved.
↗Closer
XP got proximity right. The direction was a constraint, not a principle.
↗What Software Is
Software has always been mostly other things. The code is the easy part — the substrate underneath is people, problems, systems, and judgement.
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